MTCSV Weekly Update December 22, 2021

Worship Services

Day and Time	Service
December 26, 10:00AM	English Holy Communion Service. Lectionary, Click here
December 31, 6:00PM	Malayalam Holy Communion Service.
January 02, 7:30AM	English Holy Communion Service.
January 09, 7:30AM	English Holy Communion Service.
January 15, 7:30AM	Malayalam Holy Communion Service.

Programs

Day and Time	Program	Zoom Link to View
December 26, 10:00AM	English Holy Communion, First Communion & Episcopal Visit	Sanctuary
December 26, 7:30 PM	Ecumenical Carol Service	Online

Sunday School

There is no Sunday School on December 26 and January 02.

Episcopal Visit

We are honored to have Our Diocesan Episcopa, Rt. Rev. Dr Isaac Mar Philoxenos Episcopa visiting us this week. Thirumeni will be arriving in Bay Area on December 23, Thursday Evening. Thirumeni will celebrate Holy Communion service at MTCSF on Christmas Day morning, at Sacramento Congregation on Christmas day evening and at our Church on Sunday, December 26 morning 10:00AM. Four children (Sharon, David, Abigail and Joanna) from our Parish will be taking their first communion. We will have a small program after the service followed by lunch. To RSVP, please click here.

Parish Carol Service

We had a joyful Christmas carol service on December 19 evening. I hope you all had a good time. On behalf of the Parish, executive committee, I would like to thank all who organized this year’s carol service, all who participated in it and all who worked behind the scenes to make the service a blessed one. Thanks to Choir, Praise team, Sunday School, AV team and Hospitality team. To watch the full Carol service, please click here. Please click here to find only the carol songs in youTube.

Neighborhood Mission​

Under the leadership of Edavaka Mission, We are planning to distribute Winter clothing on December 23, Thursday at 11:00 AM. Please donate any cloths that is suitable for Winter.​ Please contact Linesh John for more details.

New Year Eve Service Cake

Like pre covid years, we will have cake after the Holy communion service on December 31. We will require around 120 pieces of cake on the day. Please sign up here.

Directory Update

Please let me know if there are any changes to your address. Also, we please submit if you have an updated family picture. You can find the current address and picture with us by logging in here. let me know if you need your user name to log into portal.

Financial Contributions

We are in the last month of the year. Please take some time and check whether you have contributed the monthly pledged amount (Masaviri) and other pledged amounts. Trustees will be sending a current statement by email this week. You can also log in here to see your contributions. It will be nice if you could do all your remaining payments as early as possible.

Payment Options Available for Donations 

Donations to church can be done in multiple ways
1. Regular check, payable to MTCSV or Mar Thoma Church of Silicon Valley and mail it to
Parsonage Address
158 Teralba Ct
San Jose, CA 95139  
OR
Trustee Address 
Sam Mathew
3853 Bucknall Rd
Campbell, CA 95008 

2. Zelle payment
You can use your bank or Zelle App and make a payment to [email protected] . We will receive the payment immediately.  
You can write memo the cause of the payment.

Happy Birthday!

23	Manoj Abraham
24	Benjamin Kurien
25	Benson Cherian
25	Blessy Cherian
25	John Cherian
26	Bela Abraham
27	Anupa Varghese
31	Juanne Prince

Happy Anniversary!

26	Linesh John and Sherin Samuel
27	Robin.T.S and Gifty Abraham
27	George Koshy and Susan Koshy
27	Thomas Kuruvilla and Lizy Thomas
29	Prasanth Thomas and Tiji Thomas
29	Chris Philip and Feba Sam
29	Nikhil Thomas Ninan and Anupama John
29	Jobin Jacob and Jeena Thomas
31	Georgy Varghese and Amy Cherian

Amazon Smile Program

Similar to Benevity, Amazon supports local and national charity organizations when their customers shop with them. We have signed up for Amazon smile, which will give a small percentage to our church when someone uses Amazon smile to make any purchases. We request you to sign up for smile program through smile.amazon.com.