Joe Emprayil

Common Grounds – May

“Common Grounds” is a basement-turned-coffee-shop, open every Tuesday for an evening of fellowship. It’s been continuing for the second month and has become a fun and productive coffee shop. Many start off the evening getting some work done while sharing some coffee, matcha, water etc. Work time slowly switches to fun and games as dinner […]

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May Household

Household (the gathering of all JY’s in the region) for May happened at Jithin and Anjitha’s house. We started off with an action song, bringing back the spirit of JY from 2 decades ago. Angela lead us in the monthly reflection. She used creative ways to help us think of the impact our actions will

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Common Grounds – April

This month saw the beginning of a new initiative. “Common Grounds” is a basement-turned-coffee-shop, open once a  week for an evening of fellowship. The coffee shop ambiance allows for 2 hours of “work together” time during which attendees can bring their todo lists, personal projects, or projects to work on with others. The time can

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Pathways

The spring semester, the Midwest ran its first batch of the National Campus Pathways program. The program included in person meetups of 6-8 college age students who committed to 6 sessions with 2 facilitators. The sessions included topics on Friendship that dove into how to identify good friendships, opening up oneself to deeper relationship with

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Saturday Soup Kitchen

The regular Saturday Soup Kitchen group went again this Saturday to serve at the Missionaries of Charity Soup Kitchen. They attended the morning mass at Immaculate Conception in Elmhurst and then made the trip out to the city to serve at the Soup Kitchen. If anyone is interested in joining on Saturday, please reach out

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March Household

March Household was held at Jijo and Jiji’s house. It was awesome to have many of our college students who were back home for Spring Break. Bennett Kannana lead us in the reflection on ‘Waiting for the Lord‘. Many shared about their experiences of different periods of waiting. It is good that one should wait

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