{"id":39763,"date":"2015-10-27T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=39763"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:01:49","slug":"ovbs-of-sdoc-sunday-school-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=39763","title":{"rendered":"OVBS OF SDOC \u00a0SUNDAY SCHOOL INAUGURATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/OVBS-Photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39764\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/OVBS-Photo-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"OVBS Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/OVBS-Photo-300x120.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/OVBS-Photo.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dammam: The orthodox vacation bible school(OVBS) \u00a0under the joint auspices of \u00a0St.Dionysius Orthodox Congrigation (SDOC) Sunday School at\u00a0Dammam formally commenced on\u00a002nd October Friday, after the prayer.\u00a0The OVBS flag was hoisted by Fr.Martine OFM Cap, in a function attended by members of congregation and students. After flag hoisting, the inaugural session was convened and it started with the prayer song by the OVBS Students and teachers. Sam Scaria, Director OVBS 2015, presided over the function. Welcome address was done by Mathew John, OVBS Committee Member followed by the Presidential Address by Thomas Varghese, Vice President St.Dionysius Orthodox Congregation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Principal of Sunshine International School C.S Johnny from the expatriate community of \u00a0Dammam, lit the lamp and inaugurated OVBS -2015 followed by the inaugural speech quoting the theme verses of OVBS -2015 &#8221; Seek the things that are above Col 3:1 &#8221; He also presented an interesting Video Presentation and well focused speech on \u201cGrow in the grace and Knowledge of Lord Jesus 2 Peter 3\/18\u201d.He also emphasized that the prime responsibility of parents is to make use of every opportunity for the children to learn more and more about the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">OVBS Convener C.T.Thomas delivered felicitation speech on thisoccasion. Mathew Thomas, OVBS Committee Member concluded the function by delivering Vote of Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0The first session of the OVBS classes were conducted as\u00a0categories such as\u00a0beginner, primary, junior, intermediate, and senior. SujaMoncy,Tina Febin,Preethi, Susan Cherian, SoumyaMajo, Rani Miriam Mathew, Shona John, Soosan Mathew, Shaju Koshy, Susan Thomas, Mercy Roy, Shiny Cherian, Geemol Joby and Omana Koshy has diligently taken up the responsibility of \u00a0being OVBS teachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0The Music Ministry by Br. Biju and Br. Stanly has proven to be an enjoyable experience for our children. The organizing committee\u00a0members under the leadership of Sam Scaria are supporting the activities of OVBS to make it a great blessing. The OVBS which is spanning over eight Sessions will come to an end on\u00a030th October.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammam: The orthodox vacation bible school(OVBS) \u00a0under the joint auspices of \u00a0St.Dionysius Orthodox Congrigation (SDOC) Sunday School at\u00a0Dammam formally commenced on\u00a002nd October Friday, after the prayer.\u00a0The OVBS flag was hoisted &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sunday-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39765,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39763\/revisions\/39765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}