Joe Emprayil

Community Nights, the social gathering where ‘no plans are the best plans’ started back up again for the summer. We started off the first month of community night at the Bijoy’s house and every week we had between 60 to 80 people gathering for BBQ, hanging out, playing hoops, relaxing, playing avalon, etc. Many came […]

Our Middle School ministry took some of our middle schoolers to the summer camp organized by Damascus in June. This summer camp focuses on high-adventure activities leading to high-adventure faith. Many of the kids came back sharing experiences where they had to push past their fears and in the process learning to trust in God

Jesus Youth of the region came together to celebrate Pentecost and to commit/recommit to the Jesus Youth movement. As we went through the recommitment liturgy, lead by Fr. Joel Pius, we prayed for baptism in the Holy Spirit and prayed over each other, adored Jesus in the Eucharist, and took the pledge of Jesus Youth

“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

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

A group of about 20 JY’s from Chicago drove up to Wisconsin to take part in the Walk to Mary pilgrimage. We start with St. Joseph (at the National Shrine of St. Joseph) and walk to Mary (at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion) to get to Jesus.  Our annual pilgrimage has impacted

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

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

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

All are invited to our weekly intercessory adoration at Syro Malabar Cathedral, Bellwood, IL. As JY Midwest, we rely on the grace received during intercession to continue the mission of being a missionary movement in the region. We come together for Qurbana (Divine Liturgy) at 5:30 PM every Monday followed by an hour of intercession