dearly beloved in christ,

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




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


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




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



9th April - Maundy Thursday - HC Service @7:00 pm

10th April - Good Friday Service - @ 9:00 am.

12th April - Easter Service - @ 8:00 am.


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.”


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

Visit Our Website for the latest programme schedule / news.

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.

dearly beloved in christ,

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