dearly beloved in christ,
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Dearly Beloved in Christ,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.. Grace to you and
peace from God the father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have entered a New Year. Let us enter it with God and renew
our covenant with God in our life. Let us submit ourselves to
relationship with God which can lead us toward eternity.
Before we begin a New Year, we need to put the old years behind us.
Only as we forgive others and forgive ourselves can we have a Happy New Year.
In-order to begin a New Year we must first make peace with our past
and the relationship that have been broken through forgiveness. Thank
God that because of Jesus Christ and the fact that he is reaching out of
us with his love. whatever has happened to us in the past can be put
behind us.
So I invite you to forget, what is behind, to foresee what is before, and to
fulfil what is beyond you, enabled
by the power and passion of a
loving Christ. Whatever your life
has been in the past, rejoice in the
knowledge that you can start afresh.
May God grant you the riches of his fullness this year and beyond.
May you discover and enjoy his peace even in the midst of the
storms. The storm will come and will past. God did not promise to
stop the storms, what he did promise is that he will never leave us nor forsake us. We can be assured of
his promise for whatsoever he has promised, he is well able to perform.
Be blessed in his presence as we go forward in Service this year.
With all my heart I wish you rich blessings, and all the best for the New Year 2020.
With prayerful regards
Yours loving
P. T. Thomas Achen
For Private Circulations among Church members Only
Vicar’s Message
St Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Bristol - Quarterly Newsletter 2020
DATE SERVICES 1st LESSON 2nd LESSON
Saturday 04 Jan 2020
Fasting Prayer @ 10:00am in the church
05 Jan 2020
HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Isa:60:1-7 Acts:8:26-38
Divine Revelation for all people (Outside Kerala Mission)
Sunil Samuel Reni Sunil
11 Jan 2020 Gloucester/Swindon House Prayer @ 6pm Residence of Dr. Santosh Cherian 26 Lampeter Road, SN25 2BD
12 Jan 2020
HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Eccl:6:1-12 1Pet:1:13-25
Honouring the Body as Temple of God (Temperance Day)
Aadi Podar Melody Ravi
18 Jan 2020 Yeovil/Tauton House Prayer @ 4pm
Residence of Mr Sunu George, 6 Long Down Gardens, Plymouth, PL6 8SB
19 Jan 2020 HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Eze:37:15-23 1 Cor:1:10-17
Called to Unity (Ecumenical Sunday) Jaffey Chacko Joanne Jaffey
Bath House Prayer @ 10am Residence of Mr Abraham George 3 Kennet Road, SN10 5BG Saturday
25 Jan 2020 South Bristol House Prayer @ 6pm
Residence of Mr Jacob George, 26 De Haia Road, NP10 9NT
26 Jan 2020
HC Communion Service in English @ 09:30am Neh:2:11-18 Rev:21:1-8
Christian Participation in Nation Building (Indian Republic Day)
Jesvin Saji Josmi Saji
Birthday January 2020
2nd Jan Sarah Ann Majalady
7th Jan Mini Mathew
9th Jan Ginamma George
13th Jan Anna Issac
14th Jan Mathewkutty K.M
14th Jan Jaffey Chacko
15th Jan Jerin Sam John
15th Jan Dr. Abraham George
16th Jan Susan Abraham
17th Jan Ashika Susan George
18th Jan Jacob George
19th Jan Joanne Susan Jaffey
19th Jan Raji Chacko
20th Jan Sam Mathew Sunil
21st Jan Nixon T Samuel
22nd Jan Abel George Tharakan
23rd Jan Elena Maria Mathew
26th Jan Joel Abraham
Birthday January 2020
27th Jan Chacko Mathew
27th Jan Eliza Ann Manoj
27th Jan Hima Mary Giju
28th Jan Anna K Varghese
31st Jan Daniel P Mathew
Wedding Anniversary January 2020
7th Jan Mr. & Mrs. Sunil Samuel
10th Jan Mr. & Mrs. Ravindra R. Potdar
12th Jan Mr. & Mrs. Dillu Koshy Thomas
15th Jan Mr. & Mrs. Ray V. Thomas
30th Jan Mr. & Mrs. Saji John
For Private Circulations among Church members Only
St Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Bristol - Quarterly Newsletter 2020
DATE SERVICES 1st LESSON 2nd LESSON
Saturday
01 Feb 2020
Fasting Prayer @ 10:00am in the church
North Bristol House Prayer @ 6pm Residence of Mr Sam John
3 Elming Close, BS32 8AQ
02 Feb 2020
HC Communion Service in Malayalam @ 09:30am 1Sam:1:19-28 Heb:10:1-14
Mayaltho-Presentation of our Lord in the Temple (Medical Mission Sunday)
Raji Chacko Ancy Raji
08 Feb 2020 Gloucester/Swindon House Prayer @ 6pm Residence of Mr P. S. John
18 Marsh Farm, SN1 2GL
09 Feb 2020
HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Isa:65:17-25 Heb:4:1-13
Sabbath: Leading to the Perfection of Creation (Beginning of the 125th Maramon Convention)
Saji John Lekha Saji
15 Feb 2020 Yeovil/Tauton House Prayer @ 4pm Residence of Mr Sojan Thomas Flat 7, 13 Park Street, TA1 4DF
16 Feb 2020 HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Gen:6:1-13 Rom:5:12-21
Fall: Violation of the Purpose of Creation (End of Maramon Convention)
Manoj Chacko Susan Chacko
Saturday
22 Feb 2020
Bath House Prayer @ 10am Residence of Mr Saji John
16 Morgan Way, BA2 8TT
South Bristol House Prayer @ 6pm Residence of Mr Ninan Panicker
102 Wallingford Road, BS4 1SJ
23 Feb 2020
HC Communion Service in English @ 09:30am Isa:44:21-28 1Tim:1:12-17
Pethrutha – Beginning of Great Lent Lent Time of Transformation
Abel Biju George Jiya Nixon
24 Feb -03April Sandhya Namaskaram every Monday, Wednesday & Friday @ 7:00 pm
Birthday February 2020
2nd Feb A .M.Varghese
2nd Feb Shija Samuel
3rd Feb Jeffy John
4th Feb Susan Manoj
4th Feb Joshua Sam Sunil
4th Feb Liril Jacob
6th Feb Riya Saji
6th Feb Johan Liril
9th Feb Priju Varghese
10th Feb Beena Rajeev
14th Feb Sherin Mohan
15th Feb Abigail Karen Sam
16th Feb Jiya Nixon
17th Feb Jonathan Binu Varghese
21st Feb Nixon T. Samuel
Wedding Anniversary February 2020
1st Feb Mr. & Mrs. Raji Chacko
2nd Feb Mr. & Mrs. Ninan Panicker
11th Feb Mr. & Mrs. Sunu George
14th Feb Mr. & Mrs. Manoj Chacko
19th Feb Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Babu
19th Feb Mrs. Sosamma Thomas
22nd Feb Mr. & Mrs. Sanu Samuel
24th Feb Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Sam Moni
For Private Circulations among Church members Only
Birthday February 2020
22nd Feb Elizabeth Sam
24th Feb Sunil Samuel
24th Feb George Kurian
25th Feb Anna Grace Jaffey
25th Feb Dr. Santhosh Cherian P
26th Feb Reni Sunil
26th Feb Jinu Susan Varghese
27th Feb Sunil K Daniel
For Private Circulations among Church members Only
St Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Bristol - Quarterly Newsletter 2020
DATE SERVICES 1st LESSON 2nd LESSON
01 Mar 2020 HC Communion Service in Malayalam @ 09:30am Zac:13:1-9 1 John 1:5-10
The Cleansing Christ Daniel Babu Omana Babu
Saturday 07 Mar 2020
Fasting Prayer at 10: 00 am in the church
North Bristol House Prayer at 6 pm Residence of Mr Sunil Samuel
26 Stanley Mead, BS32 0EG
08 Mar 2020 HC Communion Service in Malayalam @09:30am Gen:4:8-16 Acts:16:11-18
The Forgiving Christ Anoop Reji Sherly Reji
14 Mar 2020 Gloucester/Swindon House Prayer @ 6pm Residence of Mr Jibu George
6 Stackpole Cresent, SN25 2AP
15 Mar 2020 HC Communion Service in Malayalam @ 09:30am Hos:2:14-23 Phel:1-21
The Accepting Christ Sanu Samuel Preethi Samuel
21 Mar 2020 Yeovil/Tauton House Prayer @ 4pm Residence of Mr Sam George
138 Goldcroft, BA21 4DD
22 Mar 2020 HC Communion Service in English @ 09:30am Exo:3:1-10 Rom:8:31-39
The Redeeming Christ Aaron John Sam Hima Mary Giju
28 Mar 2020
Bath House Prayer @ 10am Residence of Mr Alex Prasad
18 Cavell Court, BA14 0HH
South Bristol House Prayer @ 6pm TBC
29 Mar 2020 HC Communion Service in English @ 09:30am Job 42:10-17 Phil:2:5-11
The Restoring Christ Edwin Alex Esther M Alex
Birthday March 2020
2nd Mar Ravindra R Rao Potdar
4th Mar Belen Abraham
4th Mar Anoop Regi
6th Mar Merlin A Reji
8th Mar K.V.Oommen John
10th Mar Jubin Sam Moni
12th Mar Giju George Joseph
18th Mar Joel Ann Varghese
19th Mar Aaron John Sam
19th Mar Reuben Chacko
22nd Mar Mariamma Abraham
24th Mar Esther Alex Mariam
25th Mar Melvin T Rejimon
Wedding Anniversary March 2020
24th Mar Mr. & Mrs. Priju Varghese
Birthday March 2020
27th Mar Juno George Philip
29th Mar Abbey John Thomas
29th Mar Shaun Thomas Sunil
29th Mar Shruthi P Mohan
30th Mar Samuel Sam Moni
Passion Week Programme
5th April - Palm Sunday – 09:30 am
6th April - Sandhya Namaskaram - 7:00 pm at Church
7th April - Sandhya Namaskaram - 7:00 pm at Church
8th April - Sandhya Namaskaram - 7:00 pm at Church
9th April - Maundy Thursday - HC Service @7:00 pm
10th April - Good Friday Service - @ 9:00 am.
12th April - Easter Service - @ 8:00 am.
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Miracle
On Sept. 11, 2001, Sujo John was working in World Trade Centre Tower 1 when American Airlines Flight 11 tore through his building. After several hours, he managed to escape with his life. But for John, the terror of that day was not over yet. His wife’s office was in the second World Trade Centre tower. John had barely begun his workday on the 81st floor when he heard a loud explosion. As flames burst through the office, John and his co-workers quickly headed for the stairwell. “I thought I would die,” John said. “The building was swaying and we could feel the building tilting to the left, fighting our way through the fire making our way to the stairwell.” Fearing the worst for his pregnant wife Mary, John made frantic cell phone calls to her without success. During his nearly one-hour descent from the 81st floor, another explosion rocked the building. John had no idea a second plane had just flown into Tower 2. Unknown to him, Mary arrived at Tower 2 just moments after the second jet crashed into it. She was never allowed to enter the building. “We were standing right beneath the buildings and I was trying to call him on my cell phone,” she re-called. “I kept hitting the redial button, the cell phones weren’t working.” “The call wouldn’t go through,” Mary continued. “And while I was still standing there the second plane came and struck the second building.” “I saw it. I was standing right under the buildings. I felt the heat and the debris falling all around me,” she added. Hysterical, Mary spent all of that morning calling out to God to protect her husband — promising him something in return. “One of my prayers was, ‘Lord if you help him out of that building, by some chance he’s able to make it out, then I’m ready to give up everything we have right now, our jobs, whatever else we have,'” she said. “‘We’ll go to a third world country, we’ll serve you for the rest of our lives.'” Mary did-n’t know the impact her prayer would have later on. When John and thousands of others finally made it to the lowest level of Tower 1 across the mall that connected the two towers and through an exit in Tower 2 — the nightmare was far from over. In moments, Tower 2 began to collapse, forcing John to stand against the wall and huddle with about 20 other people. In that moment John said he was prompted to do some-thing that he’d never done before. “I felt the Lord was saying, ‘Where are these people that are huddled with you going?’ And I started crying out ‘Jesus!'” John recalled. “I wasn’t sure what I was to expect… Almost immediately these people started [to call] upon the name of the Lord.” “Imagine this building go-ing down, tremendous roar of the building going down,” he continued. “But for me what is etched in my mind is not really the roar of the building going down, but the cry of these people reaching out to the eter-nal God.” That experience caused John to realize something in a way he never had before. “That experi-ence showed me that people are ready for God,” he said. Meanwhile, surrounded in darkness, John thought he had been buried alive as he pulled himself up. However, those he had just stood with had perished. Choking on ash and blinded by debris, a flashlight drew John to an FBI agent who was lying face down. Miraculously, a flashing red light from a crushed am-bulance directed the two men to safety. Covered with white soot, they walked out of the debris together saying the name of Jesus. But John held out little hope or faith that Mary was still alive. “I’m thinking for sure my wife is dead. How am I going to find her? What’s happened? And it was just so overwhelming thinking about her, thinking that she’s dead, the child she’s carrying is dead,” Then his cell phone rang. “The first call that would come through that day,” John added. “I pick up the phone seeing my wife’s caller id and I’m thinking it’s not her, someone else has gotten a hold of her phone to reach me with the news, ‘Hey your wife is dead,'” he continued. “I pick up the call. It’s my wife… it was an incredible moment that my wife is alive.” Today, still etched in John’s mind is the memory of the people who died while he survived, and the call on his life to tell others about the name that will take them to Heaven. “I see lost people around me. Watching people die on 9/11 has totally changed my life,” he said. Since those frightening hours in 2001, the couple has been traveling the world sharing their incredible story of survival. The effort has turned into a full-time ministry, with more than 30,000 disciples for Christ. “God has taken us to more than 400 cities around the world where I’ve trav-elled with the greatest story ever told for God who offers his un-conditional, irrational love upon His peo-ple,” John said. During a visit to Ground Zero, John said he thought about the people who died, especial-ly those who cried out to Jesus with their last breaths. “Ground Zero for me is not just New York City where the tragedy happened,” he said. “Ground Zero for me is now my community, my city, the city where I was born.”
For Private Circulations among Church members Only
SUNDAY SCHOOL
AFTER THE HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE IN THE SMALL HALL approx. @ 12:00HRS
SEVIKA SANGHAM
AFTER THE HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE IN THE CHURCH approx. @ 11:30 HRS
YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
AFTER THE HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE IN THE CLASS ROOM approx. @ 12:30 HRS
Edavaka Mission—Prayer Request
Edavaka Mission leads an Intercessory prayer every Friday. If you have any
prayer requests kindly inform Achen on 07412684278 or
Mr. Saji John (Mob.07830019707/ [email protected] )
New Parish Members
Mr Sam George
Mrs Sherin Alice Samuel
Mstr Jenson Sam
Miss Jewel Mary Sam ———————–————————————————
Mr Saju Sunny Vettuparambil
Mrs Chinchu K Abraham
Miss Naomi Sarah Saju
Our parish welcome Mr Sam George & Mr Saju Vettuparambil Family
to St Thomas MTC, Bristol
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Condolences:
Mrs Annamma Abraham(83years), M/o Mr Zac Abraham passed away on 26th Sep.
Mr P. I. Mathew(85years), F/o Mrs Susan Biju passed away on 21st Oct.
Mrs Grace Thankachan(73years), M/o Mrs Priscilla Jaffey passed away on 23rd Oct.
Mrs Mary Joseph(81years), M/o Mr Giju George passed away on 17th Nov.
Mr Mathew Varghese(68years), F/o Mrs Shilpa Jithin passed away on 26th Nov.
On behalf of St Thomas MTC, Bristol, we extend our deepest and heartfelt condolences, we will keep you
in our thoughts and prayers.