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Ghaziabad Diaspora on 'Church and new generation'
Posted on Friday, September 15 @ 07:03:09 CDT by admin |
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ferdie writes "Ghaziabad Diaspora Group Views
During a meeting held on Sunday, September 3rd, 2006, the views from the 14 members present on the issues between the Church and the youth were:
On the needs of the New Generation the Church should cater to :
-Developing better understanding of Orthodox faith and identity
-Tackling the language problem by simplifying Malayalam usage and encouraging English and Hindi
-Developing an attachment with the church like our parents have
-Promoting awareness about Orthodox Church in society
-Running counselling centres
-Facilitating prayer which involves through retreats for different target groups
-Facilitate interactions with other religions
-Facilitate social service
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On where all the church is falling short
-Wasting lots of money
-Not catering enough for the needs of the youth
-Dirty politics in church administration
-Church is not e******enical at all
-Not proactive in catering to the needs of at least its church members
-Lack of incentives to come to church
-Having an Orthodox translation of the Bible.
On why some youths go to other worship groups
1. Accompanying friends and eating something good there
2. More involving spiritual atmosphere
3. Get guidance and counselling like that by the Catholic fathers/brothers
On what faults lie with the youth
-Lack concentration during worship
-Not make efforts to learn/understand the language
-Not seek to really understand the faith
-Lack motivation to go to church
-Materialistic distractions
Participants
1.Merlyn George merlin.george@rediffmail.com
2.Alvin Simon Alvin-ashwin@yahoo.co.in
3.Grace Kurian grace_kurian83@yahoo.co.in
4.Clinto Babu
5.Sanu Babu
6.Ajoy Babu
7.Aylwin Mathews mathewsnfamily@yahoo.com
8.Lovelish Abraham lovelish-abraham@yahoo.co.in
9.Joseph Simon simojos10@gmail.com
10.Bincy Philip
11.Ceejo Sam
12.Sinjo Mathew sinjo.indianscorpio@rediffmail.com
13.Kurien Varghese (Senior Friend) kurian52@rediffmail.com
14. Joji Abraham joji.abraham@yahoo.co.in
Discussion Facilitator :
Ferdinand Pathrose, 4th year Student, St. Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary, Nagpur
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