Dearly beloved in Christ,

Greetings in the name of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.It is with immense pleasure that I address you through the parish news letter by the grace of god we have reached here safely on 22 july 2008. I thank God almighty and the Episcopal Syned for giving me an opportunity to serve in this parish. 

I thank god for the eminent leadership of Rev.James M .Koshy and his family for the last three years .The Mar Thoma Family Conference 2008 was a wonderful experience for us.I’m grateful to our beloved Diocesan Episcopa Coorilos Thirumeni for giving me permission to come early and attend the conference.

I congratulate James Achen and all the parish members who worked hard and made the conference a great success .I appreciate all the committee members and youths for their unity and commitment. 

Let me take this opportunity to record my sincere thanks to James Achen and family, the executive committee and all members for the arrangements for our travel and stay here. I request your prayerful support for the ministry in this parish.

One of the pitfalls of living in this troublesome world is that we can become problems centered rather than god centered. When this happens we loose the proper perspectives. Gradually all our problems begin to look huge and the strength of almighty lord seems small. Instead of moving mountains by faith, we become constant worriers creating mountains of needless pressure for others and ourselves. 

Isaiah Chapter 40 is an effective prescription for those of us for whom God seems small .God reminds us that he is much bigger than the world, which he has created. He points out that, compare to him, “the nations are as a drop in a bucket (verse 15)” and the inhibitans “are like grasshoppers”. His words aren’t meant to belittle us, but rather to encourage us to look upon him and gain his perspective of life. Yet God offers us more than a new perspective. He offers us something that will enable us to live by that view. If we depend on him instead of brooding over our problems, he will renew our strength and wings of faith will lift our hearts above our difficulties. Some of them may be huge, but we can see them as smaller than our great God can. Moreover that makes all the difference. May God help us to experience the great difference in our life. 

Yours in Christ

Abraham Achan.
Phone: 925-556-0301(Parsonage)
925-980-9261(Cell)
Email: vicar@marthomasf.org