MGJSM KOCHI

EVALUATION REPORT

May 2012

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D E S I G N C O U R T E S Y : R I T T U J J A C O B

IST EVALUATION REPORT MGJSM KOCHI

Dear friend, this is the evaluation report of MGJSM Kochi region for the activities undertaken since our initiation in the month of February. I am sure you remember us calling you for the meeting which was organized at St. Ignatius Church, Ponnurunny on February 11th and for those of you who were unable to join us then or who registered late, we continue to extend our sincere invitation to you to be a part of this movement. WHAT IS MGJSM? MGJSM (Mor Gregorios Jacobite Students Movement) is the students movement and a spiritual organization under the Jacobite Syrian Christian Association. H. B Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas 1st Catholicose is our Patron and the President is H.E Dr. Mor Theophilose Kuriakose Metropolitan. MGJSM works for the development of manifold activities focusing on Spiritual, Mental, Cultural, Social and Educational fields. Also helps in moulding Students in the vast arena of student community irrespective of religion, race, gender or class. WHY DO WE HAVE AN EVALUATION REPORT? You may wonder why we sent you this. Not that we are students who dont have classes or are drop outs with no work to do, but to prove to you that we have, within this short span, structured ourselves and have been working as a group quite effectively and also to instill that very same interest in you to join hands with us. You may also wonder why you should spend your valuable time on this, what good it will do to you and what difference will it make to your life? In a day and age where millions of youngsters are competing with each other, MGJSM helps mould a person to face the rigors and challenges that life has to offer. In fact multitasking is the much revered skill at the workplace today; it is not just the ability to manage two or more things at a single moment, but also to expose all your skills and talents, organize your time, enhance ability to prioritize things and above all to enjoy life as a student by venturing into assorted avenues.

WHY TO BE A PART? This organization not just provides a platform to know God and your church better but also acts as a platform to meet important people, network yourself, make new friends and even to refresh your friendship with your old pals. This also enables you to uncover your real worth and realize your capabilities. Being in MGJSM gives you the opportunity to organize things, ponder on things you never did in your school and college. There is no teacher in MGJSM who will say, this is how things are done, you are your own teacher, and you will find your own way. We have a friend amongst our representatives who is preparing for civil service exam. She says how essential it is to work as a team to be successful in any avenues you chose. MGJSM shows you how to gel effectively in a vibrant heterogeneous group. We have students from the field of Medicine, IIT, BDS, Engineering, Law, Computer applications and even professional students pursuing CA, CS & CMA and other allied courses including other degree and diploma courses apart from the 10th, 11th and 12th category. In fact MGJSM Kochi has a combined strength of 120 members and growing; if we come together, we are truly a formidable number and theres a lot we can do for the society. You now have a platform to perform, its up to you to grab the opportunity and be actively part of this movement and bring your hidden talents and skills out. FIRST REGIONAL MEETING AT ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH, PONNURUNNY (11.02.2012) With the able guidance of Sleeba Achen, Toc-H Director Mathew Sir and Adv. Mathew Skaria Sir we successfully convened our first meeting at Ponnurunny church and our main strategy therein was to propagate the movement to the maximum possible extent. We received a KALPANA from Theophilose Metropolitan that was read in all churches in our unit and a write up about MGJSM KOCHI was published in our magazine SAHAYATRIKAN. We thought of structuring ourselves into subcommittees during this phase. Over that weekend, it surfaced! From then on, our membership was open and we could gather almost double the members.

TRAINING FOR (20.02.2012)

THE ELECTED

REPRESENTATIVES

AT

ELAMKULAM SOONORO CHURCH

Grigar Achen and Benny Achen were kind enough to train and impute responsibilities to each of the 16 representatives who were present that day. This is our present Structure: ST. MARYS JACOBITE SYRIAN ORTHODOX SOONORO PATRIARCHAL CATHEDRAL, ELAMKULAM

President Fr. Benny Varghese

Vice President Midhun Paul

General Secretary Rohit George Joshy

Joint Secretaries Abson Varghese & Elisheba Abraham

Treasurer Toby Joy T

ST. IGNATIUS NOORONO JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH, PONNURUNNY

President Fr. Samson Meloth

Vice President Harsha P. Mathai

General Secretary Bettilda Sara Santhosh

Joint Secretaries Basil S. Mathew & Abraham Thomas

Treasurer Elsa Mathew

ST. PETERS CHAPEL, MG ROAD

President Fr. Varghese Mundackal

Vice President Rittu J Jacob

General Secretary Ashin Varghese

Joint Secretaries Rinosh Peter & Remya Rajan

Treasurer Greeshma Varghese

ST. MARY'S JACOBITE SYRIAN CHURCH, NADAMA, EROOR

President Fr. Kuriakose Kaniyathu

Vice president Varghese Philip

General Secretary Irine Issac

Joint Secretaries Geo kurian & Rincy Raju

Treasurer Amal Jayan

POSSIBLE DEPARTMENTS Magazine Department Creative Department Department for Strategic Development Works Department

All of which are on the process of initiation. We thought of having a fund and a base fund of the elected representatives was soon formed, although we couldnt find a means for gathering the main fund. We also plan to gather more friends from Toc-H, Chinmaya, St. Alberts, St. Teresas, Sacred Heart College and BPC College Piravom. WHAT HAVE WE DONE TILL NOW? Our region wise meeting is being held regularly. Distributed Official Letterheads and seals for each sub-regions. We have fixed MGJSM notice boards in most of our churches, and in other cases, we are sharing the board with the youth association. All our announcements, activities and undertakings would be mentioned therein.

We have most successfully have created a blog mgjsmkochi.wordpress.com almost 24 articles in 3 months and more than 500+ hits. We request you to kindly contribute your worth to it!! You can also mail us now at mgjsmkochi@gmail.com. Distributed Exam Prayer cards for all our brothers and sisters appearing for exams, especially the Boards.

ACTIVITIES UNDER PROCESS Magazine Editorial Board will be shortly formed as Chief Editor and Sub editors have already been selected. Meeting for the entire movement of MGJSM members will be soon announced. To start a Facebook group. To conduct a training workshop for all members. We have an offer from Cipla to conduct a Medical camp!! To finalize the number and size for our MGJSM T-SHIRTS, this would most probably be a black one with our emblem and name.

THINGS THAT RESTRAIN US As we have different categories of students from 10 th till PG, at every stage there would be exams that hinder atleast one batch of students. Huge communication issues, none of us here get any replies from many despite sending mails, texts and even calls. Itll be great if everybody can pitch in a little bit if they feel responsible towards this movement, so were counting on you guys to take some more initiative from now on!! No amount of money is ever enough! so ideas are always welcome on any kind of fundraising activities that we can organize to make our events run smoother. Many of us are apparently very lazy!!

CONCLUSION Probably every one of you must have heard about MAD or JESUS YOUTH, we intend to rise to a similar plane, but we are still on the initiation phase. The elected representatives are a bunch of strong and efficient students who keep in touch almost every day to think and bring out ideas and to materialise the same, however as you can easily guess nothing can be done without your earnest support. Friends, dont just leave it here. It is with lot of difficulties that we have set the movement in motion, now you have to drive it to farther extend.

Above all dont forget this is a Jacobite Students movement, where we also serve to strengthen our Community.

Report prepared by, Regional Director & Regional Council Members