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EAN ME Template 4 5 6 My dear parishioners, I wish you all a very happy, prosperous and blessed New Year 2018. May the Lord who is the Restorer be with you and give you back all that was lost during the past! In Zephaniah 2:6 we read: the Lord their God will care for them; He will restore their fortunes. Yes, our God is a God who cares for His children more than a mother would care for hers. Hallelujah! So let us not worry – whether for our personal needs or for the future of the family, He will take care of everything. He will restore our fortunes. Jeremiah 31:4 says - I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt…again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful. Let us claim this promise personally and let us have a happy New Year and be joyful all of its days! We were able to complete the whole of 12 months in the year 2017, and our experiences have varied from individual to individual. A few may have experienced happy moments, while others may have gone through sorrows and disappointments. Yet the sustaining grace of God never lets us down nor forsakes us. Let us be assured that the Lord who has led us thus far will continue to lead and guide us. He will continue to provide us all our needs, soothe and calm all anxieties and fears and put the peace of God that passes all understanding in our hearts. Time and again we wrestle with things concerning us, and doubt if God cares for us. At times we have closed our relationship with God resulting in treating God as a stranger and a passive mute spectator. Thus we are insipid and ignorant of the knowledge of God, which is a mystery to us. Yet God reveals His qualities through His self–disclosure, and this revelation of God in the Bible discloses God’s character in a crystal-clear way. The character of God is unfolded in His interaction with His creation especially human beings. Many experienced the closeness of God and thereby they had a glimpse of God’s character. One such person was Moses, a saint and a servant who was addressed as ‘friend of God’ by God Himself! His experience with God was manifold, yet Moses expresses them in a very simple and tangible manner. This is well explained in the book of Exodus when God passed before Moses at Mount Horeb at the ranges of Mount Sinai. Moses records this event in terms of The Lord God is merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6. Indeed we need to realize that the Lord God whom we worship and the centrality of our orthodoxy and orthopraxis are not only the Creator and the Master of this universe but also the Sovereign Lord of History. He is Lord and God because He knows everything including the heart cravings and desires of every human being. He is the denominator and distinguisher of everything. He is not a mute, passive spectator, but ever dynamic, all powerful and very much active in the realm of human sphere of enterprise, with a compassionate heart. He is not a God without emotions and attributes, but full of compassion and love. Each word expressed by God in Exodus 34:6 aptly and appropriately conveys the very nature and the heart of God. Hence let us draw close to Him with confidence in this New Year 2018. As we have entered into yet another year in the life and witness of the church, my only request is, let us pray sincerely for the various activities of the church, and as far as possible, give our time and involve ourselves in the ministries of the church. Here’s a prayer that appeared some time ago in a Scripture Union booklet. O God, You will build Your church. Forgive me when I don’t play my part. Forgive me when I stop others. Forgive us when we lack the courage to obey. Forgive us when we get in the way of people seeing You. O God, You will build Your church. Give me wisdom to see the gifts You have given me for Your church. Give me discernment to see who You are calling to leadership, especially if it’s me. Give us confidence to respond to Your call and serve. Give us courage to encourage and support Your new leaders. O God, You will build Your church. Bless Your leaders with the gifts they need. Bless us with willing, obedient hearts. Bless our reaching out to other churches in partnership. Bless our community through the work of Your Church. O God, You will build Your Church. Let it be so! Amen. Be assured of my love and prayers. God bless. Yours in His faithful service, Rev. D. Richard Ambrose Jebakumar Presbyter and Chairman - PC 9 A GREATER PURPOSE In a recent heart-warming news in The Hindu, dated December 19, 2017 Indra K. Nooyi, Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo was back at Madras Christian College, her alma mater, to dedicate the renovated and modernised Women’s Lounge that she had sponsored. Last year, she funded the renovation of the Chemistry Laboratory, transforming it into a state-of- the-art facility. Ms. Nooyi graduated from Madras Christian College in Chemistry in the 1971-1974 batch, and has immense respect for the institution. While addressing the students during her visit, she said: “I have benefited enormously from my education. My husband and I are now in ‘giving back’ mode to the institutions that made us what we are today. I had all my education in Christian institutions and we are planning to give back as much as we can.” Yes, it would have been easier, or even perfectly normal to sit back and relax in one’s achievements. But for Ms. Nooyi, feeling grateful also meant giving back to the institution that shaped her. Having just celebrated the 175th Anniversary of the Church we all cherish, we have had a great time looking back at the way God has led us this far. The Church has been a source of sustenance in our spiritual journey, providing us with much-needed fellowship and support. But such a milestone also demands that we look back and take stock of whether or not we have been instruments of growth by bringing new people into the fold. How inclusive are we as a Church, in welcoming those who seek our fellowship, and how often have we pointed the way to Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life? It’s time we moved away from the limitations of being a ‘family church’ by stepping beyond our comfort zone and searching for the lost and embracing the needy. For Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28: 19-20) – and that is the great commission, and the greater purpose in belonging to the body of Christ. I’m reminded of these familiar lines from Emma Lazarus’s famous poem ‘The New Colossus’ engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, 10 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Fabiola Jacob THE EANME TEAM WISHES YOU ALL A “I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.” - R. C. Sproul 11 Gracing our cover this month, is the unique and historic St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, photographed by Fabiola Jacob. About the Cathedral Tucked away behind heavy trellised gates, on the busy Salah Salem Street, the St. Mark’s Anglican Pro- Cathedral is easy to miss! Located in one of the oldest neighbourhoods in downtown Alexandria, this 164-year old Cathedral is named after St. Mark the Evangelist who is cherished and revered among Egyptian Christians as the apostle who brought the Gospel to Alexandria in the 1st Century AD, from where it spread throughout the Nile Basin and North Africa. The Anglican presence in Egypt dates back to1819, when the first CMS missionary arrived in Egypt. The cornerstone of the St. Mark’s Pro- Cathedral was laid on December 17, 1839 following an agreement between the ruler of Egypt, Mohamed Ali, and Queen Victoria, who provided extensive donations for its construction. Various delays complicated completion, however, and its first service was not held until Christmas, 1854. The Cathedral now belongs to the Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa. St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral is unique in design as it does not look like a conventional Church. The interior décor of the Church is an eclectic mix of the Protestant and Catholic traditions, like the Coptic Churches, and the church is full of icons.
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