Neighborhood Mission includes outreach activities specifically focused on serving the neighborhoods surrounding our parishes. These efforts aim to build meaningful relationships, address local needs, and extend the church’s presence in the community through acts of service.
Vision
Project Design
Activities
Our local parishes have partnered with a variety of organizations and agencies to carry out diverse forms of outreach. These collaborative efforts have included initiatives such as food distribution programs, community clean-up projects, support services for the homeless, educational workshops, and care for the sick and elderly.
Your Involvement
Form a Local Mission Team at the parish level.
Coordinate with organizations and other parishes to participate in local missions.
Sponsor outreach efforts to help bring hope, healing, and the transformative love of Christ to our local neighborhoods.
Neighborhood Mission Subcommittee
- Rev. Christopher Phil Daniel (Convener)
- Rev. Alex Kolath
- Rev. Biju P. Simon
- Ms. Zenia George
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- Mr. Adam T. Mathew
- Ms. Annie Verghese
- Mr. Jerry Joseph
Neighborhood Mission incudes the outreach activities focused on the neighborhoods surrounding our parishes.
Vision:
The goal of Neighborhood Mission is to serve the local community through ministry outreach.
Project Design:
The mission encourages the parishes of the Diocese to work in collaboration with local churches, agencies, and institutions to effectively respond to the local needs and to witness Christ in the local neighborhoods.
Activities:
Urban Mission Trip: Neighborhood Mission annually coordinates an Urban Mission trip to foster the Mar Thoma Church’s missional presence and impact at the local parish level, highlighting the need to view the local community as a vital mission field. Urban Mission trip are arranged in partnership with mission organizations located in various urban centers. Participants in this mission trip come from different parishes of the Diocese and participate in many activities that bring awareness to the root causes of violence, poverty, and income inequality, inaccessibility to quality education, homelessness, and injustice in the urban cities of the United States.
Your Involvement:
- Form a mission committee at the parish level.
- Coordinate with organizations and other parishes to participate in local missions.
Neighborhood Mission Subcommittee:
Rev. Christopher Phil Daniel (Convener)
Rev. Alex Kolath
Rev. Biju P. Simon
Ms. Zenia George
Mr. Adam T. Mathew
Ms. Annie Verghese
Mr. Jerry Joseph














