AHMEDABAD St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral, Ahmedabad Unit

INTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION STUDIES

GUJARAT REGION - DIOCESE OF AHMEDABAD

St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral, Ahmedabad Unit.

Mrs. Vinitha Vineeth Co-ordinator

By the Grace and abundant blessings of God Almighty, INMAS Unit in St. Mary’s  Orthodox Cathedral,  Ahmedabad, is very actively and smoothly functioning.  INAMS Unit started in this parish in the year 2011 and performing very well with regular meetings, participations in INMAS Conferences and generous charity works.  The 1^st Regional Conference  have also hosted the Unit in Ahmedabad and its brief report is as under :

FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2014

With immense pleasure and profound gratitude to God Almighty for the abundant Grace and Blessings showed upon The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Diocese of Ahmedabad, INTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION STUDIES,  to submit that the  INAMS is very actively and smoothly performing.

INTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION STUDIES, GUJARAT REGION -  DIOCESE OF AHMEDABAD, conducted a One Day Regional Conference at St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral, Ahmedabad, on Saturday, the 520:09:38 a9/p9 April 2014, under the presidentship of Diocesan Metropolitan, His Grace Dr. Geevarghese Mar Yulios. The Theme of the conference was “Orthodox Mission in a Changing World”.  Bible study was conducted by Rev. Fr. Philipose Abraham , followed by welcome speech by Rev. Fr. Varghese  Tiju Ipe, Vicar of Ahmedabad Parish.

The first theme presentation was made by His Grace Dr. Geevarghese Mar Yulios, where he emphasised about the importance of finding the missionary spirit in the church. He emphasised about the importance of various Spiritual Fathers of Orthodox Church, where they  have founded various institutions which catered to the need of mission.  His Grace was of the opinion that Church doing some missionary acts alone is not enough, but must take a bold stand in setting aside a certain amount of funds for a sustainable mission work.  The second theme presentation was done by Rev. Fr. Vineeth Koshy, where he  emphasised the need of reinventing the lost missionary spirit of the Church, by  drawing the instances in which ancient Bishops like Pathros Mar Osthathios and Yulios Mar Alvares have made bold steps in the Church in doing missionary work. He also emphasised that mission of the church is in dual character, the mission should be within the Church as well as we need a mission outside the Church.  

The General speeches were tendered by Mr. Sam Koshy and Mr. K. V. Koshy, representatives of Baroda Unit and Prof. P. K. Kurian from Kerala, (INAMS Gen. Secretary).The second session of the conference was the awareness class on kidney disease, which was conducted by Dr. Devang Patwari, Nephrologist.

Concluding talk delivered by Rev. Fr. James Geevargese, Assist. Vicar of Ahmedabad Parish and followed by love circle prayer and benediction  concluded the conference.  INAMS members as well as choir have made wonderful job and presented beautiful songs to became the conference a grand success and meaningful one. About 100 members  from Ahmedabad Parish, INAMS Baroda unit and  INAMS Central Office bearers from Kerala were also participated in the conference.In the upcoming conference, from this Unit nearly 25 members would like to attend in the conference and  also participate in the song session.