Light The Way

Register for Awake Youth’s in person prayer meeting TOMORROW August 15th at church after the holy communion service.

The theme is "Where we are deficient, God is sufficient" based on 2 Corinthians 12:9. Led by Joel Thomson.

If you are not attending the church service and wish to only come for the prayer meeting, please use the link in bio!

Please be sure to register and bring a mask.

A beautiful message on the necessity of decentering the Western materialist socioeconomic, and White European cultural lenses and contexts from our understandings and readings of the Bible from . Grounding the Gospel where it belongs - amongst the marginalized, the downtrodden, and outcast pushed to the fringes of the material society - and within the Middle Eastern, Asian, racialized, and Aramaic-speaking Jewish cultural context from whence it emerged.
We as Saint Thomas Christians are in a unique position to use our ancient connection to the Apostolic Age, flowing forth from our forefather Apostle St. Thomas, to further our ancestral Eastern traditions passed down from the earliest roots of the Church to decolonize the Christian faith from White supremacy and White-centred cultural biases.
The Mar Thoma Church’s long history of activism supports this reality. But ask yourselves - are you as Marthomites willing to take on this task? To understand the cultural origins of our Saint Thomas community and its history of resistance to European colonialism and imposed spirituality, and to testify our experience as Christians preserving the culture of Jesus in our worship/customs? The dominance of White Christianity can often be overpowering for Eastern communities struggling to return Christianity to its racialized roots - it can often be easier to stand distinct from the rest of world than from Euro-Western fellow Christians. But living fearlessly and faithfully in remembrance of the Gospel and preserving what we understand of the Early Church helps us to and decolonize the Church to recognize the voices of the 2/3 of global Christians who are POC and/or from Eastern traditions.

With ❤️ and 🙏🏾,
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The is proud to celebrate of the Movement’s ministry for awareness, support for, and rights of Transgender people in India. We are humbled by the leadership of our beloved Mar Thoma Metropolitan Theodosius (Mar Thoma XXII) for acceptance of Transgender people in Indian law and in the Christian Church.
We as Marthomites commemorate & elevate the Transgender community on this Day, passing so close to Transgender Day of Visibility, as they face much violence, hatred, judgment, & misunderstanding. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️✝️
Today as we await the coming of the Risen Christ, let us remember to love and support our Transgender siblings & other marginalized, oppressed, & downtrodden communities who He loved and treasured. Let us recognize the image of God in the faces of the poor, the homeless, the community, s*x workers, the substance-addicted, and support the Mar Thoma Church’s efforts for their empowerment.
For more information on how to support the Transgender community: http://navodaya.marthoma.in/

With ❤️ and 🙏🏾,
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