Holy Qurbana Celebrant: His Grace The Most Rev. Dr. Theodosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan 
Metropolitan with Sunday School Students 
Holy Qurbana Celebrant: His Grace The Most Rev. Dr. Theodosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan 
Old Westbury Garden Visit Dearly beloved in Christ,
This month’s lectionary themes are reminding us of many events. One is that we celebrate World Sunday School Day. Let us thank God for the ministry of Sunday School. Especially for our children to learn more about the Word of God, as well as equip them to follow God throughout their life. Our challenge should be to not enable only one hour per week of Sunday School, but even in everyday life, we should teach the children how to live to love and fear God. I have seen some parents who just drop their children off to Sunday School but do not stay for service. We should in action teach our children what faith is to us and genuinely embed that faith to our kids. Our children are watching and listening to us, they learn from us more than we verbally teach them. Let us live out the Sunday School experience all throughout our lives.
We are also preparing ourselves in the celebration of Christmas through commemorating the annunciation to Zachariah and the Virgin Mary, as well as the sharing of the Good News through the blessed visitation of Mary to Elizabeth. Let us remind ourselves through meditating this month that the coming of our Savior is the instilling of the Hope God gives us that He will NEVER leave us. Let us continue to put our trust and hope in Him. Let us be thankful that we exist in this world and be thankful in all the circumstances that come our way because God chose for us to exist because He loves us unconditionally.
This month as the North-East Regional Youth Fellowship, we will have our Fall One Day Conference at St. James Mar Thoma Church on November 25th. Please encourage all our youths to attend the conference.
NERYF will also have the regional retreat on February 16-18 at the Montrose Bible Conference in Pennsylvania. Please note the date and encourage our youths to attend. More details regarding the retreat to follow.
May God bless all of you this month! Have a blessed November!
Much love,
Jess M. George Achen
