Yes Jobin, possible.I would really love to meet everyone from Kottayam. I can arrange the place.So if there is anyone in Joynet from Kottayam please mail Jobin or me (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) or ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please,Please ,Please mail if you can be in Kottayam during X'mas. Would really like a get - together of the Kottayam Joynet members.Jobin ,can we fix a date after we get everyone's replies?
Love Milan Changanasserry/Kerala/India [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All > Good Morning and Praise God. > > I couldn't resist myself from offering my comments on this. > Especially after Bijoy wrote in a few chips of how life was > in those ''JYOlist days''. > > True. It was a nice time we all had. > You must understand one thing. This is not a normal group > mailing list. This will be benefitting many of us in the following > ways : > > A source of inspiration at all times. > Keeping in touch with God's Children across the globe. > Support in times of distress and anxiety. > Prayer help / support though the Prayernet. > Back up support personally if you need it, (Prayer Partners). > (Hi, PP are you listening !) > any many more......................... > > Sometimes the touching stories that come up really ignites > the sense of being the children of Abba father. > > The first thing I do everyday is open the Mailbox and see the JOYnet mails. > I make it a point to see the mails and then start my day. > > Now just listen to this. ....................... > > I was coerced to go into the JesusYouth (activities) by my little sister > who was doing her medicine at TVM Medicol. I really didn't want to. > > Those of you of 'those (jyolist) days' would remember how miraculously > (Praise God) I travelled next to my sister to the retreat at Kottayam. > She had a confirmed ticket. Mine was a Waitlisted one. > > It was Onam time folks. ! No chances of getting confirmed. > Listen, ................to my astonished mind and surprise I got a > confirmed > ticket. Ticket in the same compartment as that of my sister and that too > next to her. Brilliant handiwork of God Almighty. He wanted me to have > a good headstart as I proceeded to the retreat. > > After I came back I signed up for this network and went ahead exchanging > my views and sharings. > > We were always wondering how each person looked. > Every time we mailed to the net ( of course only a handful of them were > active in those days) we had a picture of them (others) in our heart. > > Sure it could be wrong. I had a good friend (of course all are good friends > !) > in JPM (Jose Paul Martin) who used to be in touch from Bahrain. Now he is > in > Chennai. We used to exchange ideas and share a lot of things. We do it even > now. > > Now for the first JOYnet meeting (face to face, that is)...... > I met our web administrator, web master or web servant what ever you want > to call him. > Now we can call him a husband too ;-) > > He came to my office. Shocked but still regained my lost ground quickly. > I had a different idea of how he looked. Strange. Our ideas didn't match. > I didn't meet Suresh, the Tiger ;-) from Colombo. But I have seen him. Yes > in his Website. > His friend Joby was in Chennai for some time. now he is in Ernaks. > > Same like that.. I went to Bangalore. Some good friends came to meet me. > Varghese, Susan, Mathew, Jose Kurian (ADA, Blore). Jini from Kshema Tech.. > Seeing them was more like fun... Trying to recognise who was who.. > > The new comers into the Net who have just entered can be assured of a > similar > experience. Try it out in your own city. And you will find that it is truly > an experience > you have yearned for. > > Most probably I will be in Kottayam for Christmas. When I come there, > I think Milan can group the people already and we all can have one > Kottayam get together spend some time in prayer... > > Any kottayam-ites pl. send in your mail to my id. We can fix it up. Go > ahead. > Don't feel shy. One step ahead will take you into this world which can be > used to > Glorify our Lord. > > We can select a Parish Church for that. > Milan possible,.....???? > > More in my next mail... > Be in touch. > > Love and prayers. > > Jobin > > Thomsson A.Jobin > Indo National Limited, Chennai > +91 44 827 8612 / 5653 / 2711 > > Bijo Thomas wrote > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear Friends, > > That was a wonderful recap of what happened in JOYnet in yesteryears. > > > Any volunteers to add more details in this History chart??? > > Most welcome... Pls feel free to add any relvent details with > > this.... > > While speaking of JOYnet history, we cannot forget an IT couple from > Bangalore. Varghese and Susan, both working in Infosys, Bangalore, India. > Though they are silent for the past couple of months (busy with work and > kid > Sharon, I guess), they have contributed a lot to JOYnet. It was Varghese > who > started posting 'Our Daily Bread' (ODB) to JOYnet first, when Varghese was > away from Bangalore for a while, Susan carried it on. There was a time > when I > used to look for ODB everyday morning, at least to check if JOYnet mails > are > coming through. (Otherwise I read JOYnet mails later in the day, when I am > not busy). When both Varghese and Susan go on vacation, they used to make > arrangements with friends to send ODB without break !! (Later when there > were > too many mails in JOYnet, we once stopped posting ODB's. Now Joseph Lonth > posts it everyday to parablenet.) > > Later Varghese started coming with a lot of Bible quiz and other stuff. > There > was a great response to all of them. Besides the fun part of it, these > quiz > programs made a lot of us (me first) aware of how little we know about Holy > Bible. > > Hey Varghese and Susan, you cannot be silent anymore. > > There are a lot of other contributors who helped JOYnet to evolve into its > present shape, old guys, please share what you remember about them. > > Love & Prayers, > Bijoy/Chicago/USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Suresh Kumat T. Jose > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [JOYnet] Little bit of History !! > > Hi all, > We are growing.... Now 683... (day after tommorrow we have to reduce 1 > number from this. Anybody know the reason????) > 683 members.... from how many countries??? US, Canada, > South Africa, Germany, UK, France, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, > Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand.... > Any other countries???? **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************
