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Out Reach Program for Ratanpur Church (CNI)

Following the decision of diocese of Jabalpur that big urban churches should  adopt needy rural churches, it was decided to adopt Ratanpur Church (CNI), PO Urrai, Dist.  Mandla. The decision that Christ Church Cathedral should adopt Ratanpur church was conveyed by the bishop vide his letter No. BSP/Ex Comm./12, dated 23.07.12. You may recall that there are several incidences in the Bible where a congregation in need was helped by people of other congregation during the early church era. (Please read Acts 11: 27-30 & 2 cor 8: 13-14.)

 

The first visit to Ratanpur was made on 27.11.2011. Following members of our church were the part of the team

 

1

Rev. Arvind Peter

4

Mr. V. K. Rathod

7

Mr. Naveen Cak

2

Rev. Bruce Thangadurai

5

Mr. R. C. Joseph

8

Mr. Nitin Bagh

3

Mr. N. K. Boro

6

Mr. Sanjay Martin

 

 

 

 

Rev Lalit Solomen who is priest in charge of Ratanpur church accompanied us from Mandla. He is stationed at Mandla and is visiting pastor for Ratanpur and Devri Churches.

                                       

After meeting the congregation of Ratanpur and surveying the church building, the property, the grave yard, the village, and observing the socio -economic condition and spiritual life of people of Ratanpur following plan of action was made for their all round upliftment. The plan is divided into short term and  long term spiritual and physical work Brief description of this plan is given below

 

  1. Short Term Work:- We identified such physical and spiritual work which can be done immediately without much requirement of funds or time.

SN

Short Term Physical work

SN

Short Term Spiritual work

1

Distribution of Blankets, Old cloths etc.

1

Close monitoring, supervision and guidance to the pastor & his work

2

Providing Harmonium, tambourine, Dholak, Dari or Chaetae etc

2

Proper record of name, age, occupation etc of Christian community of Ratanpur

3

Providing Alter table, Cross & Candle stand & Linne

3

Regular Sunday service

4

Providing Sunday School books Worship book, Hymn book

4

Open Sunday service register

5

Providing Storage trunk

5

List of children due for confirmation and baptism

6

Notice Board, Name Board for Church & Grave Yard

6

Form pastorate committee appoint treasurer

7

Complete Electrification of Church

7

Start Sunday School & youth Fellowship

 

By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by co operation of members of Christ Church, we have completed quite a lot of work from above list. The details are given in the following paras of this document.

 

  1. Long Term Work:- Such physical and spiritual work which will require large sum of money and time were kept for long term work. These are listed below

 

SN

Long Term Physical work

SN

Long Term Spiritual work

1

Set right land record

1

Confirmation at Ratanpur

2

Demarcation of land

2

Full time worker /pastor

3

Fencing & tree plantation for demarcation of land

3

Increase membership by Evangelization

4

Repair roof, room, doors & windows till new building is made

4

Organize VBS

5

Tube well or open well

5

Bring children to camp at Mandla or JBP

6

New Church & Parsonage

6

Stewardship program

7

Agriculture in the land

 

 

8

Vocational training

 

 

 

Three visits have been made to Ratanpur so far. In addition to these visits,one visit was made alone by Mr. Vijay Bernard accompanied by his team of artisans on 24.11.12. Two trunks were transported from Jabalpur on his car and complete electrification of the church was done.

 

 

This trip was followed by another trip on 28.11.12 consisting of Mr. N. K. Boro, Mr. Sanjay Martin, Mr. Naveen Cak, & Mr. Nitin Bagh, along with an electrician from Jabalpur. Rev Lalit Solomon accompanied from Mandla.  Balance work of electrification was completed, and lot of old clothes which were collected from congregation of Christ Church was distributed among the people.

 

So far following work has been done at Ratanpur

 

1

New Blankets & Old cloths have been distributed twice.

2

Harmonium, Tambourine & Dholak have been given.

3

Hymn books & Sunday school books have been given, Bibles have been arranged.

4

Roof repair was done before rains by local congregation

5

Electrification done complete with three wooden poles.

6

Two Steel Trunks provided

7

Khasra Records acquired, rough measurement of land has been done.

8

Alter Linen provided

9

A steel cross of 5  feet has been made

10

Church Records updated partially.

11

Church Register has been given to maintain church record and finance.

 

Since approximately 3 acres of land is available, it is planned to cultivate it so that some income is generated for the church. A tube well is needed for irrigation since there is no water in Ratanpur. For this purpose, during visit of 28.11.12, we met Mr. Vargese who is a government contractor at Mandla. He has quoted a cost of Rs 65000/- to Rs 70000/- for the tubewell along with a pump.

 

Following things are planned to be completed before Easter of 2013 –

 

A          Land measurement by government authorities.

B          Demarcation of boundary and providing fencing to protect property.

C          Providing tube well.

D          Construction of Alter

D          Identification and education of children due for confirmation.

E          Educating proper account keeping.

 

Your generous financial  support is  needed to start above work immediately in order to finish it before Easter. Cheques may be issued in the name of ‘Christ Church Cathedral’.

 

 

A trip to Ratanpur is being organized between 14th to 18th January 2013. Interested people can accompany by contributing for bus fair. Following activities will be done during the trip

 

  • To know their problems and their views regarding church growth.
  • Women’s fellowship will interact with women of congregation and guide them to organize WFCS.
  • Youth fellowship will interact with youth of Ratanpur.
  • Sunday School teachers will motivate young people to start Sunday School.

 

We specially request doctors of our congregation to visit Ratanpur for a rough assessment of general health condition of Ratanpur people so that a health camp can be organized in future.

Those who are interested to go may contact the pastor or Mr. Naveen Cak / Mr. Vijay Bernard / Mr. Nitin Bagh or any other member of the committee at the earliest so that proper size bus can be arranged.

 

We request all members of our congregation to come forward to help in this project in what ever way you can do it.

 

 

 

Sd/-

(Mr. Nitin Bagh)

Convener

Sd/-

(Mr. Vijay Bernard)

Project Director

Sd/-

(Rev Bruce Thangadurai)

Chairman

Ratanpur Church Project

Ratanpur Church Project

Ratanpur Church Project

CHRIST CHURCH FLOORING :By the Permission of Bishop and  Pastorate committiee Church has started, indoor flooring work from 4th of January 2016 .The old Flag stone are been removed and replaced with the New Marble stone.

The initiative taken by Rev.Bruce Thangadurai,Dn.Subha Vanketrama ,Mr.R.C.Joseph,Mr.Nitin Bagh ,Mr.Joseph Lazarus ,Mr.Sanjay Martin,Mr.Meshech Thangadurai and Mr.Naveen cak.


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