CSI Christ Church Annual Report 2011 -12 - Sesquicentennial ...

Report and Annual Statement of Accounts 2011-2012
New Church Committee
Election to the Church committee was conducted on June 26th and the new committee took charge on July 27, 2011. The
election process was very lengthy. The polling commenced in
the morning of 26th June after the combined Service, and
continued till 4 p.m. The counting process which commenced
immediately thereafter, continued till 04.30 a.m. next morning.
Besides the Church Vicar, Mr. I. Mathew and his team conducted
the election peacefully. We record our sincere thanks to them.
Section E: Meetings
Annual General Body Meeting (AGM)
The Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) 2010-11 was held
on May 15, 2011 at 10.30 a.m. in the Church after the Combined
Service. The Vicar, Rev. Daniel George, presided over the
meeting, which was attended by 149 members. After Achen’s
address, the minutes of the last AGM, the Annual Report and
Accounts for the year 2010 – 11, and Budget for 2011-12 were
presented. The decisions and proceedings are recorded in the
minutes of the AGM.
Church Committee Meetings
The monthly committee meetings were scheduled to be held on
the second Fridays. The meetings could not always be conducted
as scheduled, but the meeting were held in all months and two
special meetings were held. There was a high percentage of
attendance at all the meetings. All meetings except one special
meeting were presided over by the Vicar.
Sub-Committees to the Church Committee
With a view to provide necessary support and assistance to the
Church committee we have formed the Legal, Mission, Finance,
and Infrastructure sub-committees. Prof. K.V. Thomas, Church
Warden, is the convener of the Legal and Mission sub-
Report and Annual Statement of Accounts 2011-2012
committees, and Mr. John Kurien, Church Warden, is the
convener of the Finance and Infrastructure sub-committees. In
addition to committee members, resource persons from our
parish, who are experts in the respective fields, are also members
of the sub-committees. We thank the parishioners who devoted
their valuable time for participating in the sub-committees.
Section F: Social Projects
Food for the Needy Programme
The programme was commenced on 01st September 2006 and
is completing 6 years in September 2012. Under the programme,
free noon meals are provided to poor patients or their bystanders
in the Govt. Hospital, Peroorkada. Accordingly 100 meals were
being provided every day of the year except Sundays and Good
Friday. The programme has continued uninterrupted. But in
recent months we have discovered that only about about 75
persons on an average line up each day for these free meals.
Accordingly, the number of meals provided is reduced from
100 to 75 from March 2012. The cost of the remaining 25 meals
is being given to the Fort Mission Girls High School, to provide
nutritious food to poor students, as part of our City Mission
Project. This programme commenced in March 2012 and an
amount of Rs. 10,000/- has already been disbursed to the school.
The amount we have spent so far for the Food for the Needy
Programme is Rs. 24.93 lacs.
City Mission Project
As indicated in the last Annual Report the 5 programmes of the
City Mission project to be implemented were approved by the
Church Committee in its meetings dated 31.10.2011 and
13.2.2012, and the implementation of the projects was entrusted
to the Mission Sub-Committee for further action. The
programmes under the City Mission Project were presented by
the following members:
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