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TO THE YOUNG WHO ASK THEMSELVES WITH ANGUISH AND DISTRESS: WHAT IS TRUTH?DOES TRUTH EXIST? YOU WILL REPLY WITH COURAGEOUS CONVICTION: OF COURSE!CHRIST IS THE TRUTH AND ONLY HE HAS WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE! POPE JOHN PAUL II

THE MAIN TASK FOR US ALL IS THAT OF A NEW EVANGELIZATION AIMED AT HELPINGYOUNGER GENERATIONS TO REDISCOVER THE TRUE FACE OF GOD, WHO IS LOVE.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

AT A GLANCE

SEPTEMBER 2009 A Jesus Youth Initiative

UPCOMING PROGRAMMES

THEBIG EVENT

ROUND THE CORNER

NEWS + VIEWS

Campus Meets in Kerala

National Campus Meet

Exploring India

Proficuss 09

News from Nagpur

New Teens team in Kerala

Tamil Nadu CampusLeaders Gathering

and more ...

2 General Team meetings have taken place in Hyderabad.Letters from Xavier Board & CBCI Youth Commission have beensent to all the Catholic colleges in India referring NCM 09Intercession for NCM 09 has started in many parts of the countryespecially with Intercession cells in the Mumbai & Hyderabad gearingup full steam ahead.

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National Campus Meet 0927-29 Dec 09 @ St. Francis College, Hyderabad

National Doctors Conference 200926-28 Sep 09 @ SVD, Vachanajyoti, Kannur, Kerala

Kerala Campus MeetsSeptember & October

Deeper & Higher Conferences

10 regions of India

Wanted!People who can radicallychallenge this generation!

Are you in?

Exploring India

Proficuus 09

NCM 09 General Team Meeting

How far NCM09 has travelled:

NATIONAL CAMPUS MEET 2009MINISTRY CORDINATORS

NAVIN BRUCEAsst.Coordinator, JY International Team.

Campus Ministry is a powerful instrument for moulding generations,to prepare todays youngsters to become Missionaries of tomorrow.My 7 years in college was like seven holistic years of formation in aFaith Formation Centre. I was taught, trained and exposed to an

in-house training on how to look at Catholic Spirituality in thecontext of Contemporary World through the campus prayermeetings. All this led me to a deeper conviction that Jesus has apowerful plan and higher thought about University Campuses, and ithappened after seeing with my own eyes the changed lives ofhundreds of young people!

Like me, many people had a dream to win the campus today andto change the world tomorrow. Ultimately to win people forChrist, build them in Catholic faith train them in building up aministry and send them to reach out to others. Let nothing stop thisdream and may it unfold, get visualized through the youth groupsand become a life-giving experience!

Few decades back, when Jesus Youth campus prayer groups startedgrowing in different parts of Kerala, no one dared to think about aOne Year Full Time Commitment for the Lord. Our dreams weresmaller, which the Lord made bigger. He gave us the wings to flyand to move out to youngsters in various parts of not only India, butover 25 Countries! So when you speak or share about Jesus to ayoungster in a Campus, it has much and more greater impacttoday.

My thoughts, says the Lord, are not like yours, and My ways aredifferent from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so highare My ways and thoughts above yours. (Isaiah 55:8 -9). I do believethat the National Campus Meet 2009 is an opportunity to listen toGODs voice and to understand His thoughts and follow His ways.

Running the race with you all!

The second general team of National Campus Team was held at Hyderabad,on 2009 August 16th. The general team constituting the National Campusteam, with more than 25 campus leaders from the 5 states of India, had afruitful time planning new strategies for NCM 09. The ministry teams weremade to sit separately to sketch their working methods in the coming days.

Campus Meets in Kerala

The Campus Ministry in Kerala has announced7 campus meets in the months of Septemberand October 2009. Calling the exhortationfrom the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVIth, onWYD 2009, We have set our hope on the livingGod (1 Tim 4:10), the theme of the campusmeet has been set as RISE WITH HOPE.

The team members are fervently moving allacross the state for meeting senior Jesus

Youth leaders and campus students for theCampus Meets. Campus Leaders gatheringshave happened in 6 zones of Kerala with aparticipation of around 50 leaders. Let thesecampus meets be the new rays of hope in thelives of many young people.

Reji Francis General CoordinatorMBA StudentJesus Youth National Campus Team member

...you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:32

Sachith ThomasAsst.General CoordinatorSoftware Engineer, HSBC bank, HyderabadJesus Youth Hyderabad Service team

Alekhya ReddyIntercession CoordinatorMBA Student, HyderabadHyderabad Campus Team member

Charles Bastian Antony Programme CoordinatorManagement professional from KeralaJesus Youth National Campus Team member

Arun Philip Simon Finance Coordinator

Research Scholar, IIT MumbaiJesus Youth Asst. Coordinator, Mumbai

Joby JoseMobilisation CoordinatorPursuing C.A from Chandigarh, Punjab.Jesus Youth National Campus Team member

Lord, make them beautiful instruments of Your Love.Blessed Mother Mary, we seek your intercession for the NCM preparationsand the ministry coordinators. [ Pray 1 Hail Mary ]

Keep going JY & do your best for the Lord!

National Campus Team at HyderabadThe National Campus team meeting was held at Hyderabad on 2009August 15 .The Hyderabad campus team also joined the team for some

time. The group had a good time to build fellowship with each other andthe ministry activities of the team were discussed in detail. The Hyderabadteam is all set to welcome the campus youth from all across India for theNCM 2009 in December.

I am very happy to note that after 10 years you are organising a National Campus Meet with the aim of reaching out to all the

Catholic Institutions in India. Congratulations for this giant leap. Yes, Jesus Youth has emerged as a great power at National

Level, thanks to the hardwork of many beginning with the leaders of the Church. Youth is a strong power and with God's grace

they will be able to work wonders in the country and the world inorder to build up the kingdom of God. With prayerful wishes.

Sr. Stella Principal, Trinity College , Jalandhar, Punjab

As a preparation for the NCM 09, Reji Francis, the Generalcoordinator & Victor Jose, an M.Tech graduate from IIT Mumbai,are busy exploring the campuses of India. They started off withHyderabad and have traveled Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Gujarat,Ahmadabad, Baroda& Delhi. They have met the Jesus Youthleaders and most of the college Principals in these regions and

have updated about the National Campus Meet 2009. JaisonVarghese, a forerunner from Bangalore, is also moving toKarnataka region to support the mobilization works of NCM 09.The lives of many a campus youth across the country are beingtransformed by the relentless works of these youngmissionaries. Lets pray that their ceaseless works for the Lordbear abundant fruits in their lives.Wish you all the very best for your Mission.

THANK YOU LORD. It has been one year since the launch of CAMPUS VIBES the E-news letter of National Campus Ministry and since then by the

Grace of Lord we have been successful in bringing out this news letter, once in every 2 months. The Holy Spirit has been guiding us in a very special

way all throughout the works of the newsletters. With hearts full of gratitude and Praises to the Almighty, we present this 7th issue of CAMPUS VIBES.

Please do continue supporting us. You can send in your valuable suggestions to campus@jesusyouth.org

HAPPY BDAYCAMPUS VIBES!

New Teens team in Kerala

News from Nagpur

LET US PRAY

Tamil Nadu CampusLeaders Gathering

A new Teens team was anointed in Kerala with Jerry Sebastian, aB.Tech graduate from Amal Jyothy College, Kanjirappilly, as thecoordinator. The team has 19 members including Fr.Joshy O.C.D &Sr.Ancy from Idukki as the animators. The new team which focusesmainly on the prayer groups in schools has a lot ahead of them tosizzle the teenagers in Kerala. Prayerful wishes to the new team!

Proficuus 09 blazed the stages of L.F. Generalate, Thrikkakara,Kerala from August 28th to September 2nd. An initial programmeaimed at the budding Engineers from Kerala to guide them set theirpriorities and lives, Proficuus saw participation of over 200, withmore than 85 volunteers to support the team. The participants wereled through a 3 day retreat, followed by a 2 day orientation program,

through which Jesus Youth movement was introduced to them.

Tamil Nadu Campus Leaders gathering, organized by the TamilNadu Campus team was held at Trichy on 25th & 26th July, 2009.The commitment and faithfulness of leadership was dealt in detail

with a Biblical approach. Leadership qualities of St.paul werediscussed and studied by the group. The sharings of many Jesus

Youth leaders have certainly motivated the group to work for Him inthe campuses. The focuses of ministry in the coming years werealso made clear to the group by the Campus Team.

MOST LOVING GOD, we humbly place our Campus Ministry into Your hands. We pray for our colleges, universities and all other

centers of learning so that You will raise Your apostles in these places. Let Your message of love bear abundant fruits among

the students, teachers and all the administrative staff in these institutions. Let there be an outpouring of Your Holy Spirit upon

them, so that many of them will accept Jesus as their Lord and Master and will come together to glorify Him. We make this

prayer with the intercession of our blessed mother. Amen

New Core team was formed in St.Vincent Pallotti College ofEngineering, Nagpur with Anwin Thomas as the coordinator.The new team, with 6 members, has started their mission in thecollege. The Coordinator speaks about the JY activities in College:Jesus youth was introduced in the college in 2006. Small JYgatherings which were often held during lunch breaks has nowchanged to the Jesus Youth prayer meetings on every Saturdays,as more and more people started coming in.

Now we have the JY prayer meetings on every Saturdays with morethan 50 students participating. Jesus Youth in the college isrestricted not only to the prayer meetings, but also takes active partin various college cultural activities. We have come up with differentskits, dance and musical shows in our college at differentoccasions. Apart from the core team there are 2 other teams: the

intercession team and the conducting team. The intercession teamhas 26 members and the conducting team has 10 members. Wealso have other ministries like music ministry, literature ministry,creative thinking ministry, theatrical presentation ministry andchoreography ministry.

With steady and effective updations, campus vibes helps us to be inthe heart of this continuously growing ministry. It really helps us toknow and contribute to the Ministry activities in Indian campuses as

a big family. In the special aspect of Kerala, I personally feel thatcampus vibes specifically helps us to lead the ministry with amissionary outlook and make everyone think about new initiatives

which can definitely shift the ministry, to newer heights.Renoy Jose, Campus Ministry Coordinator, Kerala

Its only through this news letter CAMPUS VIBES , the campusministry activities in India are being networked. It has beenbeautifully linking the Campus news from all across India for thelast one year. So It has to be continued. Let this news letter comeout in flying colors, motivating many young people to come up withinnovative ideas. I pray that this be a powerful mode to lift many upmany leaders and to reveal many new faces of leadership fromdifferent parts of India.Subin Jacob, JYNT Asst.Coordinator

"It feels immense delight to realize that the "Campus Vibes"E-newsletter has completed one year. It is heartening to see theconsistent effort that is been invested to transmit this newsletter.It is amazing to see that the newsletter is sent out regularly withoutfail. I pray that this medium will grow on and inspire millions in ournation to be focussed on our good Lord".Shoy Thomas Manavalan, Asst.Coordinator, Karnataka JY Team

Jesus Youth is an international Catholic youth movement of young people who, filled with the Holy Spirit try to reach out to other young people and intheir own life situations, strive to give time to the Lord, responding to the challenges of todays world in the power of the Holy Spirit.

She made it possible!It was with great expectation National Campus Team initiated the news letter Campus Vibes to spread the happenings at campuses all over India and Dona from Kerala

took the challenging task as the in-charge of the news letter. Through out a year she kept the tempo to publish it once in two months. Dona is also part of National

Campus Team. She is doing M.Sc. Mathematics at CUSAT, Kerala. Congrats Dona, at the first anniversary of Campus Vibes Newsletter. - NATIONAL CAMPUS TEAM