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Welcome family and friends and all others who are visiting this site! We are very pleased to present to you all the inaugural North American Knanaya Youth Website! We hope that this site provides the much needed information and news regarding the programs and people that make up our wonderful youth organization! We hope that this site may help our youth to grow while providing a link to connect us all. Please feel free to email any questions, comments or concerns to our Web Administrator or any of our Youth Officers!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

MAY GOD BLESS YOU & BRING YOU HEALTH, HAPPINESS, LOVE
& SUCCESS IN 2008!

THANKS FOR VISITING & PLEASE SIGN OUR OFFICIAL WEB GUESTBOOK!
May God Bless & Guide Us All!

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OUR REVERED METROPOLITANS:

H.G. KURIAKOSE MOR SEVERIOS & H.G. KURIAKOSE MOR GREGORIOS
 

Recent NAKYO Events & Activities:

The NAKYO hosted another wonderful youth gathering on December 1st, 2007, this time at St. Thomas Knanaya Church in Clifton, New Jersey. We had a tremendous turnout with about 50 people in attendance. We credit this to having our officers located in all parts of the Northeast. We were honored with the presence of Mr. Toby Manimalethu who was the keynote speaker. We had two deep discussions with a third tie-up session at the end. In between there was lunch and a team building activity which helped us get to know all of the youth that attended. At the end of the day there was a performance by the Christian rap group Anonymous as well. Overall it was a very successful youth day and we hope for more great events like this one.   Click Here For Pictures from this Retreat!

On Saturday, August 11^th 2007, the North American Knanaya Youth Organization hosted a fantastic retreat for both Knanaya Jacobite and Catholic young adults. The retreat was located at the Knanaya Catholic Center in Rockland, New York. The Keynote speaker at the function was Mr. Mathew Joseph (Mathachan Uncle) from Houston Texas, who flew all the way to New York to help our youth get a better understanding of our Bible and the Heavenly Father. In between Mathachan Uncle’s sessions were group building activities and a performance by the talented Christian rap group Anonymous. We were also blessed with the presence of our bishop, His Grace Kuriakose Mor Gregorios, who spoke to the group and held a question and answer session, in which the youth were encouraged to discuss what was on their minds. Finally towards the end of the event, elections were held to choose new NAKYO Board Officers. The retreat turned out to be a very successful event for the Knanaya community and it showed, as the attendees left feeling a stronger presence of the Lord within their lives. To see who are the new NAKYO officers, please go to the "NAKYO BOARD OF OFFICERS" link above.
Click Here For Pictures from this Retreat!
 

PAST NAKYO NEWS:

On Saturday, September 30th, 2006, NAKYO had a prayer retreat at the St. Thomas Knanaya Church in New Jersey. Although, around 30 teens attended the retreat, we were hoping for more participants.  Our very gifted speaker was Toby Manimalethu of Detroit, MI, whose main focus of the day was "to help us prepare a life in eternity with God". The retreat was divided into sessions with the youth singing songs in between each session. Click NJ PRAYER RETREAT for more details of how the retreat went and pictures from the day!

 The NAKYO recently hosted a wonderful summer picnic, which took place at the Garret Mountain Reservation in Paterson, NJ on Saturday afternoon, July 1st, 2006. The reservation was a great place to hold the BBQ and a assortment of various activities such as basketball, football, volleyball and frisbee. All who came had a good time and it helped gather the NAKYO Youth members from the close north east areas of CT, NY, PA, MA and NJ. Click HERE for NAKYO 2006 Picnic pictures!

The North American Knanaya Youth Organization held its latest elections at the Knanaya Jacobite New Jersey Church, in Clifton, NJ, on Saturday, January 21st, 2006. The election for the NAKYO national board of officers, took place after a spiritual retreat conducted by a wonderful speaker, named Toby Manimalathu, from Detroit, MI!
The new officers can be seen HERE! Pictures from the elections can be seen HERE!

On Saturday, June 4th, 2005, the North American Knanaya Youth Organization hosted a great trip to the Sargent Camp Program, in New Hampshire. It's was an amazing event, full of fun, teamwork and group bonding! Everyone who took part enjoyed it very much and many came for the first time along with some who came for the second and third times! For those of you who came, thanks for making the event so successful! I hope everyone had some long-lasting memories
Please take a second to check out pictures from the event!
FOR PICTURES AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM, CLICK HERE!

On Saturday, December 4th and Sunday, December 5th, the KCYL (Knanaya Catholic Youth League) hosted a fantastic youth retreat and invited NAKYO. It was a great success with a huge turnout! Bravo to all those who came and made this such meaningful and spiritually enriching retreat! Special thanks to Mathachan Uncle from Houston, TX and the Knanaya Catholics for hosting it and inviting us to be a part! Glory be to God!

On Saturday, April 30th, 2005, the North American Knanaya Youth Organization hosted a retreat that took place from around 11:30 until 4:30, at St. Thomas Church, in Clifton, New Jersey. This retreat incorporated Bible study, praise and worship singing and discussion forums regarding various thematic elements of Christianity.

On Saturday, October 30th, 2004, the NAKYO hosted a youth retreat featuring Dr. Manoj Mathew of PA, and a group of young people. The event took place @ the St. Thomas' Knanaya Church in Clifton, NJ. It was a great success with a huge turnout!
RETREAT PICTURES: CLICK HERE!

We are very proud of a group of young people from Boston's St. Stephen's Church, who were recently active in their area, by contributing their time for community service work. This group spent time working with the "Boston Cares Program" to build park benches that will be placed in the Blue Hills Reservation located in Massachusetts. They did a great service and we are very proud of their efforts!

On Saturday, August 28th, 2004, St. Joseph's Church, Long Island, NY hosted their annual Church Picnic, which was attended by many of our NAKYO Youth from different parishes! It took place at Belmont Lake State Park, in Babylon, NY. It was a wonderful occasion and was a great time for everyone!
PICTURES FROM PICNIC!

On Sunday, August 15th, 2004, St. Stephen's Church, Boston, celebrated its Perunal with the presence of H.G. Kuriakose Mor Severios. After the Perunal, NAKYO, with the presence of Monsy Chemmachen (Youth Minister), H.G. Kuriakose Mor Severios, Very Rev. Fr. Abraham Thomas Vazhayil & Rev. Fr. Punnoose Abraham Kallamparampil, held a youth meeting and held elections for officers for the next year. Ryan A. Pallathra (St. Peter's Church) was elected NAKYO President, Jemini Abraham (St. Stephen's Church) was elected NAKYO Vice President, Sarah Abraham (St. Stephen's Church) was elected NAKYO Secretary & Ponnu Kurian (St. Stephen's Church) was elected NAKYO Treasurer.
BOSTON  CHURCH PERUNAL 2004 & NAKYO YOUTH MEETING PICTURES!

On Saturday, August 7th, 2004, the North American Knanaya Samudhayam held a reception for our new beloved Thirumeni, H.G. Kuriakose Mor Severios. The reception was public, and was held at 2:30 PM at the Rockland Knanaya Catholic Center in Rockland County, NY. The reception had a great turnout and many people came eager to see His Grace for the first time. The Metropolitan was greeted by a long line of people. The reception consisted of speeches, songs, and a public address by His Grace Himself. The speeches consisted of Knanaya Catholics and Jacobites and the youth that spoke were Ashok Abraham, Anu Markose, Martin Abraham, and Ryan Pallathra. The event's MC was Jeevan Puthiamadathil.
RECEPTION PICTURES!

We, the North American Knanaya Youth Organization would like to welcome our newly ordained Bishop, H.G. Kuriakose Mor Severios! His Grace was ordained by The Patriarch of Antioch, Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I on January 15, 2004, in the Monastery of St. Aphrem at Ma'arrat Seydnaya, in Damascus, Syria, and became the fourth Metropolitan of our Knanaya Diocese. His Grace was born as the oldest child to Edavazhikkal Kunjavarachan and Mariamma of Kottayam, and is the Second Metropolitan in his family. May God Bless Him & Help Him To Shepard Us!
 

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PICTURES FROM CONVENTION 2003 - DALLAS, TEXAS!

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