Sunday Mornings!

Ever wonder why Sundays are a drag at home?

Why there does not seem to be much enthusiasm in the family for getting ready for church?

The video clip below could answer some of your questions. Just click on the link below or copy-paste the link into your browser. The silent video clip is based on James chapter 3.

AND prepare to be blown off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oHm7IB8Uxc

South Area College and Hostel cells – Part 5

COLLEGE AND HOSTEL CELLS FUNCTIONING IN SOUTH AREA

· Please attend your college and hostel cell and be a blessing.

· Please invite other students and graduates near you to attend your college / hostel cell so they can be strengthened and blessed.

· If you are interested in starting a college cell or hostel cell please contact Robbins and Joel.

· The list of College and hostel cells will be updated as and when new cells are added.

1. MCC CELL

Place: Dr. Moses Inbaraj, Madhana, Amy, and Andrew’s home

Day: Tuesdays

Time: 3.30 to 5.00 pm

Student leader: Lalsang and Reuban from MCC

Cell Parents: Moses and Madhana

Cell type: Believers; Both students and graduates.

2. MIT HOSTEL CELL

Place: Chrysolin’s room

Day: Tuesdays (To restart)

Time: --------

Student leader: Chrysolin from MIT

Cell Parents: Lynda and Jerritta

Cell type: Believers; Both students and graduates

3. BALAJI NURSING GIRLS CELL

Place: Jasinth School

Day: Thursdays

Time: 4.30 to 5.30 pm

Student leader: Deepa and Sharmila from Balaji

Cell Parents: Jerritta Arun

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

4. BALAJI NURSING – ENGLISH CELL

Place: Jasinth School

Day: Thursdays (To restart)

Time: 4.30 to 5.30 pm

Student leader: -------------

Cell Parents: Phaomei - Staff

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

5. JERUSALEM ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Place: Jasinth School

Day: ------------- (To restart)

Time: -------------

Student leader: Benny and Shalom

Cell Parents: Ashok and Robbins

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

6. PRINCE VENKATESWARA ARTS AND SCIENCE

Place: Home available nearby

Day: ------------- (To restart)

Time: -------------

Student leader: Sheeba

Cell Parents: Felicita, Easter Prince, John K. Dilli - Staff

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

7. BHARAT ENGINEERING – CAMP ROAD

Place: Home available nearby

Day: ------------- (To restart)

Time: -------------

Student leader: -------------

Cell Parents: Praywin and John K. Dilli - Staff

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

8. SRM GROUP OF COLLEGES

Place: Jasinth School

Day: ------------- (To restart)

Time: -------------

Student leader: Andrew

Cell Parents: Thambiraj, Joel, Solomon

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

9. MIT

Place: Home available nearby

Day: ------------- (To restart)

Time: -------------

Student leader: Chrysolin and Sheeba

Cell Parents: Jebasingh, Jegan, Gurubabu

Cell type: Mixed type; Both students and graduates

South Area Vision for the future – Part 4

NOTE: Please check this page often for updated information

1. E.U Sundays:

Please explore the possibility of having an EU Sunday in your church. South Area team will introduce UESI using slide shows and LCD projectors, give a few songs, skits, testimony, and a short message. This will help us partner better with the local churches. If you would like an EU Sunday in your church, contact Robbins.

2. Operation Canaan:

Please identify believing students and graduates in your colleges, churches, and near your homes. Please give their names, email ids, and contact numbers to Joel Kingsley and Robbins. We will train them to take up leadership in their college campuses.

3. Revive area EGF gatherings

South Area needs to revive and energize the various EGF gatherings since these are the backbone of the student ministry! East Tambaram EGF, West Tambaram EGF, and Velachery EGF to be revived and strengthened for the new academic year. Please attend and be blessed by these gatherings.

4. Believers meet

Believers meet for South Area will be held, God willing, in the second week of August 2009. Please pray for it, keep the date free, and plan to mobilize graduates and students for the same. Details will be intimated to you later via blog and hotline.

5. Higher Secondary Students meet

Higher secondary students meet will be held, God willing, in the first week of August 2009. Please pray for it, keep the date free, and plan to mobilize graduates and students for the same. Details will be intimated to you later via blog and hotline.

South Area Ministry Details (Dawn Prayer) – Part 3

• Please attend the Dawn Prayer cell you are closest to and be a blessing.
• Please invite other students and graduates to attend the Dawn prayer cells near them so they can be strengthened and blessed.
• If you are interested in opening your home for a Dawn Prayer cell, please let us know.
• The list of Dawn Prayer cells will be updated as and when new cells are added.

1. Home of Dilli Babu – South Area Staff

2. West Tambaram --- Home of Thambiraj or other convenient place

3. East Tambaram --- Robbins home or other convenient place on Saturdays

South Area Ministry Details (Home Cells) – Part 2

HOME CELLS FUNCTIONING IN SOUTH AREA

· Please attend the home cell you are closest to and be a blessing.

· Please invite other students and graduates to attend the home cells near them so they can be strengthened and blessed.

· If you are interested in opening your home for a home cell, please let us know.

· The list of home cells will be updated as and when new home cells are added.

1. EAST TAMBARAM HOME CELL

Place: Robbins, Lynda, and little Ben’s home

Day: Sundays

Time: 4.30 to 6.00 pm

Student leader: Ugin from MCC

Cell Parents: Robbins and family

Cell type: Believers; Both students and graduates.

2. PAMMAL HOME CELL

Place: Jebasingh’s home

Day: Thursdays

Time: 6.00 to 7.00 pm

Student leader: Thiagu from Gurunanak

Cell Parents: Jebasingh

Cell type: Believers; Both students and graduates.

3. WEST TAMBARAM HOME CELL

Place: Gurubabu, Sudha, Jonathan, and Joanna’s home

Day: Saturdays

Time: 4.30 to 6.00 pm

Student leader: Evelyn Christina (Poppy) from MCC

Cell Parents: Guru and Sudha

Cell type: Believers; Both students and graduates.

South Area Ministry Details – Part 1

Areas coming under 'South'

1. East Tambaram

2. West Tambaram

3. St. Thomas Mount

4. Velachery

5. Chrompet

6. Madipakkam

7. Vandalur

8. Pammal

9. Rajakeelpakkam

10. Palavanthangal

11. Pallavaram

10 things I would do differently

10 things I would do differently if I actively involved in student ministry again

----------Adapted from HisMethod, blog by Bruce Chant, pastor of Northshore Church, Australia, on June 16th, 2006

1. Pray more:
Jesus is the one who builds the ministry, not me. The more you pray, the more you expose your heart to the truth that you can’t do it, but only Jesus can. You can’t pray enough!

2. Care less about pleasing people:
Let’s be honest, caring more about people than God is an idol for a lot of people. Life is just too short to worry if everyone is happy. Look at Jesus. You don’t need to be harsh or abusive - but being up front, honest, and forthright helps everyone.

3. Invest in people who are on board:
People who are on mission with you, regardless of gifting, are golden to our ministry. If you are not what someone is looking for, or they have another agenda, that won’t change.

4. Accept other people will not love the ministry as much as you:
Or care for it as much as you. It’s your call, and your job, and you’ll be accountable for it finally! You need to set the tone with this. Having others set the tone for your ministry could get you in trouble.

5. Have more lead-in time for the launch team!
I think building the core team (first); getting everyone clear on the distinctives of the ministry (second); and then impacting others (third) would have been invaluable in hindsight.

6. Spend less time thinking ‘deconstruct.’
If things don’t work according to plan immediately, my natural inclination is to blow it up and start again from scratch. History tells me tearing stuff down to rebuild is not often the way to go. Tweaking, refocusing, and training are usually far better options.

7. Pay more attention to how things are at the local ministry level, not how I’d like them to be:
You need to be attuned to the needs, values, culture, and strongholds of the people / community to which you’ve been sent. Copying “cool” is a waste of time. You need vision, but first and foremost, you also need to know where you’re starting off at the ground level.

8. Don’t define anything by what you are not!
Don’t be crude in your opinions - So long as you stay in ‘deconstruction’ mode, you will never see anything happen for the kingdom of God while the student community around you goes to hell. Michael Angelo said “critique by creating”.

9. Enjoy the ride!
Yes, it’s a roller coaster ride with ups and downs. Praise God for the highs; see the lows as the grace of God shaping you for the road ahead. Run to Jesus and enjoy the adventure along with Him.

10. Pray more
Yes, I already said this one. But it’s worth repeating. Seriously!

NOTE: But don’t be put off working with students; we need more men and women willing to lay it on the line to win students for Christ in this nation. If ever you were looking for a challenge, this is it!

Keep reading southprayerhotline.blogspot.com for new and innovative ways to reach the students around you for Jesus.

Giving

Give God what's right---- not what's left!

Pharaoh’s dream and my experience

"And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows."—Genesis 41:4. NIV by C. H. Spurgeon

PHARAOH'S dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry. My seasons of coldness have frozen the warm and pleasant glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm. My fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace.

If I neglect prayer for even a short time, I lose all the spirituality I had attained. If I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul. When the caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of self-indulgence lay my heart completely desolate and make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever. How anxious I should be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favored hours!

Backsliding leaves me far away from the prize of my high calling and robs me of the advances I had laboriously made. The only way my days can be as the "fat cows" is to feed in the right meadow, spend time with the Lord in His service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. O Lord, keep me far away from the curse of leanness of soul. Let me not have to cry, "My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!" Instead, may I be well-fed and nourished in Thy house, that I might praise Thy name.

Come, let us build

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.
………… Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea!”


Is there any way this could be applied to our ministry situation? Let's have your comments on this....and fast!

Walking in step with God

"We all have our limits, and it is only being intelligent and Christian to realize what those limits are.

If there had been a proper understanding of this to begin with, it is very likely that there would have been a "fence at the top", rather than the need for "an ambulance at the bottom".

If ministry is going to be effective in enabling the sick person to draw on wholeness for the future, he, or she, needs to know the area of over strain where he has been 'tempting providence' and he needs to repent of that so that he has a way of life that lies within his limits of strength or endurance, and sometimes his limits of faith."

Please let us have your comments on this. Add your comments to the comments area. Thanks.

Monthly EGF Fasting prayer and Monthly EGF get together

Both programs will be held at the same location. Please attend the fasting prayer and stay on for the get together. All your fasting will be turned to feasting!

Fasting Prayer:

Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009

Time: 2.30 pm

Monthly Get together:

Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009

Time: 6.30 pm

Topic: Interactive Session on Mentoring

Moderator: B. Gurubabu

Venue for both programs:

7, Honey Drops Ministries

Arthi Nagar

Behind Selaiyur Police Station

Chennai 600 059

PLEASE DO ATTEND AND BE BLESSED!

Welcome to South Prayer Hotline Blog

Greetings and Welcome to you all in the name of Jesus, our Lord.

The new academic year is upon us and we are revved up and raring to go!

South Area wishes to introduce its newest initiative to you all for your use.

'South Prayer Hotline Blog' works hand-in-hand with 'SouthPrayerHotline@gmail.com'.

1. "South Prayer Hotline Blog" aims to share Praise and Prayer concerns as well as inspirational readings from South Chennai region of EU to its well-wishers. Anyone can log in, read the posts, and add your comments. This will be a public forum for getting in touch and will very effectively get us all linked together. It will, hopefully, be updated every weekend, so begin your week by connecting with South family! We await your comments and feedback on this, as always. To begin, just click on this link.. http://southprayerhotline.blogspot.com/ and you are set to go.

2. Southprayerhotline@gmail.com is your hotline that promises total confidentiality. You will receive periodic prayer and praise points from here. Please feel free to write and communicate your prayer and praise points to us. Also, give us the email ids of friends you meet who would love to be on our mailing list. We await your feedback on this too, as always.

We begin the blog and restart the hotline with the prayer that God would use it for the extension of His kingdom. Keep in touch!

South Area Grads