I guess soon we will have churches named after our Bishops.
Well here is an update on another collection which is coming up! Well you are all free to give - But i ask when did my Church ever care where do i stay or do i need help? I guess it reminds me of the famous words - Look at the log in your eye before you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye. So far I appreciated the way my Church goes all out to help the world, but some how in it's eagerness to help and get the names of Bishops and Priests on Marble Memorial Slabs - the members are left to fend for them selves.
I have heard a lot how our own members are not given preference even in our own Marthoma Schools and Colleges without coughing up a few lakhs in donation.
Well Christmas is the time for giving and I sure this years the poor people in my neighbourhood is going to get some cake without my business card attached to it!
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Church to build houses for the poor
The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar will donate 1,500 houses to the homeless poor in different parts of the State as part of the 90th birthday celebrations of the Mar Thoma Metropolitan, Philipose Mar Chrysostom. In a statement here on Tuesday, Zacharias Mar Theophilus Suffragan Metropolitan said the beneficiaries of the scheme would be selected without caste and religious considerations. He said the keys of the first 90 houses under the project would be handed over to the beneficiaries at Thiruvilla on April 27, 2007, the birthday of Mar Chrysostom.
He said the fund required for the housing project would be mobilised from among the church members in different parts of the world. The housing project committee had opened its office at the Olivette Bishop's House in Chengannur and P.T. Thomas had been nominated the committee convenor.
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