Vodcasts
- Sermon Link – Jesus Christ: Icon of Ordained ministry (Rev. Santhosh Varughese)
Upcoming Prayers, Meetings & Events
- July 16 (Wednesday)
- 7 PM: Intercessory Prayer (via Zoom)
- July 18 (Friday)
- 10:30 AM: Fasting Prayer (via Zoom)
- July 19 (Saturday)
- 10:30 AM: Edavaka Mission monthly meeting (at church)
- July 20 (Sunday)
- 10:15 AM: Holy Communion Service (Malayalam)
Kalpanas/Circulars
- DC/ 301/2025 – DC 301 2025 Texas Flood Relief
Edavaka Mission
- There will be a meeting of Detroit Mar Thoma church Edavaka Mission on Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 AM at the church. Requesting all edavaka mission members to prayerfully attend the meeting
Midwest Regional Activities (RAC)
- Family Enrichment Seminar: Mid West RAC is conducting the Family Enrichment Seminar by Dr. P. C. Mathew & Mrs. Ciby Mathew on July 19th in Chicago mar Thoma Church. We have been announcing the details for last couple of weeks. Recorded session of the event will be made available later.
Young Family Fellowship
- There will be a Young Families Fellowship (YFF) meeting on Friday, August 1st at 6:30 pm at the church. All young adults and young families are requested to join. There will be a session arranged for kids during the meeting.
If attending please respond to the WhatsApp event that has been shared. For any questions please contact John Mathews – Tiffy.
Sevika Sanghom
- Diocesan Sevika Sanghom is conducting an essay competition based on the theme “Women: Transformers by Faith”, “സ്്രതീകൾ : വിശാസ നിറവിൽ മാറ്റത്തിന്െറ ചാലക ശക്തികൾ”. Essay can be composed either in English or Malayalam and competition will be conducted separately for each language. Submission of essay can be done via email to dsss.essay@gmail.com or postal mail to Rev. Sherin Tom Mathews ,11 Walker Avenue, Pikesville,Maryland, 21208. The deadline for essay submissions is 6:00 PM ET on August 10, 2025. Detailed rules/guidelines for essay are also attached. Please encourage yourself to participate in this competition and be blessed. There will be first, second and third place awards presented for the English and Malayalam essay competition. The winners will be announced at the Diocesan Sevika Sanghom meeting scheduled for September 4, 2025.
Church Picnic
Our annual Summer picnic was yesterday. We had a wonderful time at the picnic yesterday except for some rain. Though the rain dampened our spirit little bit, the day was filled with fun, fellowship and lots of food. There were lots of planning & Logistics went behind it for making it happen and on behalf of parish I would like to thank each and every one who have helped in making it successful. This picnic is so far the most attended picnic in our recent history and I would like to thank the picnic Convenors Mr. Thomson David, Mr. Varughese Abraham, Mr. C. V. Samuel and Mr. Justin Jones for all the planning and coordination that went behind the event. I would also like to thank our vicar Rev. Santosh Varughese for giving us the great leadership and our church office bearers and executive Committee for their support.
I want to thank all the volunteers who have helped with prepping for the barbecue on Friday, helping with loading and transporting the things needed for making this huge get together and the volunteers who have helped with all the activities at the park. I want to thank our inhouse magician Mrs. Mini Varghese for preparing a lot and presenting the “Mini Magic Show” for kids. It was very well received and attended by lots of kids and adults alike and encourages us to have similar events added to the picnics in the future.
We had some wonderful and fun games and have winners. Though we couldn’t award the cash prizes during the Picnic, it will handed out today by Justin. If you are a winner, please stop by and see Justin on the way out to grab your cash prize. Last but not least, I want to thank everyone of our families who have come out to enjoy the picnic yesterday. Thank You
Mar Thoma Festival
As the picnic is behind us, Our next big Summer event Marthoma Fest is Aug 16th. Lots of planning is going on for making the event a big success and fun. We are preparing to release the 2025 summerfest poster soon. Our main part of the festivities is our coveted Cultural Program. As witnessed in the previous years, cultual program gives opportunities for our members to showcase their individual talents as well as group talents from toddlers to senior citizens.
For this years cultural program, we are looking for our members who are interested in showcasing their talents in Solo and in group. Please let Ms.Rebecca Varghese know if you are interested as she is coordinating the cultural events. We are looking for anyone with unique ideas for the cultural festivities. There is a deadline where anyone can join as this requires lots scheduling and practice. Please let Rebecca know by next week if you as individual or group wants to do any activities.
Registration for the marthofest summer sports has been opened. Anyone interested in playing basketball, volleyball, pickleball or table tennis please sign up on the google form found on the QR code at the bulletin boards or with the link that’s provided here in the announcements. The deadline for registration will be July 20th (Basketball/Volleyball) and July 27th (Pickleball/Table Tennis). The cost for each tournament to play in is $10 per person per tournament, with a maximum cost of $35 per person for all tournaments.
Schedule:
- Aug 3 (after Service): Table Tennis (singles and doubles) – Aug 4 will also be utilized if tournament does not conclude on Aug 3
- Aug 5/6 (6 – 10 pm): Pickleball (Men’s Doubles)
- Aug 12/13/14 (6 – 10 pm): Pickleball (Women’s and Mixed doubles, Men’s singles)
- Aug 15 (6 – 9:30 pm): Volleyball draft tournament
- Aug 16 (8 – 11:30 am): Basketball draft tournament
Please sign up soon as you can so that you can be placed into a team – Registration form
Yuvajana Sakhyam
- Mid-West Region Mar Thoma Yuvajana Sakhyam Regional Conference and Kalamela-2025 is planned to be held on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025, at St. John’s Mar Thoma Church, Michigan from 8 AM to 4 PM (EST). From 8 AM to 9 AM (EST), registration and breakfast will be served. All YJS members participate in both the conference and Kalamela. Rev. Sanjo P Varghese (Vicar, St. John’s MTC) will inaugurate the conference and Rev. Ashish Thomas (Vicar, Chicago MTC) will lead the session on the theme “Youth: Shapers of Tomorrow” based on 1 Timothy 4:12.Last date to register for the Conference with $10 Registration fee: August 15th, 2025. (Late Fee: $15)Following the conference, Kalamela will start and the Shakha with the most points will be awarded the Donna Alex Memorial Ever Rolling Trophy.Last day to register for Kalamela: August 3rd, 2025. (Late Fee until August 10th: $5). Registration after August 10 will not be accepted.Kalamela -Competition Events are as follows:1. English Solo (M & F)
2. Malayalam Solo (M & F)
3. Group Song (Participants: 5-12)
4. Elocution – English
5. Elocution –Malayalam
6. Bible QuizFor competition details reach out to Convenor: Sandeep George or YS Secretary.
Blood Drive
- As we have been announcing for last couple of weeks, Detroit Mar Thoma Church Medical Team, Yuvajana Sakhyam and Youth Group is planning to host a blood drive here at the Detroit Mar Thoma Church on Sept 28
- . We request interested individuals to sign up for the blood drive. So far they have got 45 people signed up. Please sign up using the link provided with today’s announcement. Blood donation is easy and harmless and it is also divine as it saves life.Below is the registration link for the Blood Drive
https://detroitmarthoma.org/main/resources/2025-dmtc-blood-drive/
If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Mini Varghese or Mrs. Sansu Mathai
Photo Directory
- We will be releasing a 2025 Photo Directory book later this year. As done with previous editions, this directory will include names, a photo, current addresses and contact numbers of every parish family, formatted in a physical copy released to all families. To compile all the photos needed for the directory, the Photography sessions will take place at church on September 12th-14th of this year.
- The sessions will be as follows:
- Friday the 12th: 2pm-10pm
- Saturday the 13th: 9am-10pm
- Sunday the 14th 2pm-10pm.
- Photography sessions will be scheduled via this SignupGenius link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054EA5AA2DA6FAC25-57289147-2025
- Each family is asked to sign up for a single 10 minute slot during one of the 3 days that is available and works with their family’s schedule. If you have any questions, please reach out to Debbie George or Justin Jones.
- Time slots are filling up fast now. Please go in and add your name. We also got request from extended families to make group pictures. If you have plans to get a big group picture of your family while you are taking the pictures for the directory, please make sure, all individual families reserve time next to each other so that your extended family picture can be taken while you are all there. Just note that, your big group picture will not appear in directory, this is for your needs only.
- We will be setting up a signup desk from next week to help with the sign up
Refreshments
- Thanks to Mr. George & Gracy Abraham for sponsoring todays refreshment celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Wishing both a Happy Wedding Anniversary and God May continue to bless you both in the new Year. Thanks to refreshment committee for all the arrangements.
- Note from the refreshment team:
- Refreshments will be served for 30 minutes only and the cleanup will start after. Requesting every one to join the fellowship time as soon as we finish the benediction.
- They are also requesting those who haven’t contributed to the annual refreshment fund to do so soon. The minimum expected is 100 dollars.
Birthdays & Wedding Anniversaries
- DMTC Family wishes all our fellow members celebrating their Birthday and Wedding Anniversary this upcoming week. May the Almighty Lord bless each one of you and your family in the New Year and the years ahead.
Acknowledgements
We want to thank, Rev. Santosh Varughese for leading todays service and the message, Lay Leaders, Choir, Live stream and Audio teams for assisting today’s service
Please uphold our near & dear ones who are sick and those grieving the loss of their loved ones.
Thank you all for participating, have a blessed week.
Office Bearers Contact Information
- As part of our transition to the new domain, contact emails of the office bearers has been updated. Please take a note of the new email Ids for the church office bearers
- Vicar: vicar@detroitmarthoma.org or 248-792-1134 (Mobile)
- Secretary: sec@detroitmarthoma.org
- Trustees: trustees@detroitmarthoma.org
We are not monitoring the old emails any more. Please take a note of the new emails.
Online Photo Directory
As many of you may or may not know we maintain an online photo directory of parish families. Many photos in the directory are outdated and we invite and encourage all families to provide a more recent photo to be included in the directory. If families have a new photo please e-mail it to the secretary at sec@detroitmarthoma.org. We thank everyone for their support. Link and log-in information for the photo directory will be included in the weekly announcements.
Online Photo Directory Link: https://detroitmarthoma.org/main/resources/parish-directory/
Photo Directory Passcode: 48033
Note about Security – Email/Phone Contacts from the church
- As we are all aware there are many security threats to our personal information in the modern age and unfortunately many ill-intended people try to access this information through underhanded methods. One of the common methods used are communication mediums such as e-mail or phone. We ask members to please take precaution when reviewing and responding to text messages and e-mails they receive including text messages/e-mails from church representatives. In regards to church emails our vicar (Santhosh Achen), secretary and trustees have specific church e-mail accounts: Vicar: vicar@detroitmarthoma.org or 248-792-1134 (Mobile) Secretary: sec@detroitmarthoma.org Trustees: trustees@detroitmarthoma.org. The Vicar, Secretary, and Trustees have their own personal e-mail which they rarely use to communicate parish related matters. If any member is suspicious or uncomfortable with a text message or email they have received from a church representative we ask that you do not respond and instead contact the church representative by phone or in -person. Also please note the Vicar or office bearers will NEVER ask for any personal information (ex. bank account or credit card number) or request for purchases to be made on their behalf via text message or email. We have recently been made aware of a scam e-mail that was sent out using the name of a church representative and therefore we are recommending appropriate precautions by parish members. If you have any further questions please contact the church office bearers.
Live Streaming of Church Events
Live streaming will be available on the church YouTube channel – https://youtube.com/@DetroitMarthomaChurch. After clicking the link, click on “Live” and find the livestream for the respective church event.
We will do our very best to live stream all church events, however as this is dependent on trained volunteers, there may be technical interruptions and occasions where live streaming is not available. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Zeffy – Online Payment Option
- Zeffy is a user-friendly platform for not-for-profit organizations that allows for one-time and reoccurring monthly contributions with a no transaction fee option. Contributions can be made with credit card, bank account, Apple or Google pay. We strongly encourage all members to utilize Zeffy for electronic payments. Our Trustees want to thank all the members who have utilized this method as this streamlines the financial activities of the parish.
- Zeffy is available through the DMTC Mobile App or church website (link below):https://detroitmarthoma.org/main/resources-2/online-donation/
- With this online payment option, PayPal will no longer be available as an online payment option. If any member has questions or would like additional assistance with Zeffy please contact our Trustee or Accountant, Mr. Thomas Abraham or Mr. Alan Thomas, at any time
Church Zoom Information
Zoom Meeting ID: 811 6679 1004 Password: 926644
- From the Web Browser
- Dial-in
- (US) +1 312 626 6799 and then enter the access code 811 6679 1004# and then# again and then the passcode 926644#
- (Canada) +1 647 558 0588 and then enter the access code 811 6679 1004# and then# again and then the passcode 926644#
Admin Update
If you are currently not receiving emails from the church or would like to update your email address, please notify us by sending it to sec@detroitmarthoma.org. Send your name and address in the email so that we can identify you properly. Please visit the church website