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Greetings
to you in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
I
thank and praise God for the privilege to serve Him. I thank Him for watching
over us all these years and helping us in growing both spiritually and in
numbers. Praise the Lord for His continued blessings. Our regular worship
services have been a great blessing to many. We are privileged to hear the word
of God through our honorary Pastors and guest Preachers.
Apart
from regular Sunday worship services, we had special services on Christmas, New
Year Eve (Watch Night Service), Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Thanksgiving,
Mothers Day and Fathers Day. On the scheduled Sundays, Sr. Honorary Pastor Rev.
Dr. David Ravinder and Honorary Pastor Rev. David Davis have shared the God’s
Word and spiritually encouraged us all through the year. We are also blessed to
hear the Word of God through many of the guest preachers from
India
and around
New Jersey
. The guest preachers for the year 2010 included the following eminent servants
of God: Bro. Prasanna Kumar Devarapalli, Rev. Amoon Sharon, Rev. Dr. Richard
Ruch, Rev. Dr. Samuel Mohanraj, Bro. Rajan Mathews, Rev. Dr. Akumarthi Daniel,
Bro. Philip Pedapalli, Dr. T. M. John, Dr. Jacob Puli, Rev. Dr. Amaranath Kumar,
Bro. John Moses Doosi, Bro. Ravi Prakash Runjala, Bro. Dustin Sunset, Bro. Harry
Gomes, Rev. Dr. T. D. Prasanna Kumar, Bishop Spurgeon Raju Pachigalla, Bro.
David Willis, Bishop Daniel Kalyanapu, Rev. Dr. John Wesley, Bro. Santha Rao
Bhogi, Bro. Michael Vijaya Kumar Murthodi, Rev. Dr. B. C. Paul, Bro. Anil Kumar,
Bro. Vijay Benedict, Rev. David Mannon, Rev. K. Kurian and Rev. Solomon Sudhakar
Thadanki.
More
than 500 people including 150 Non
Christians attended the Christmas service. We
want to thank specially those who visited us from
California, Tennessee,
North Carolina,
Illinois, Michigan,Virginia,
Maryland,
Connecticut,
Delaware, Pennsylvania
and New York
states.
Praise God for the grand
celebration! Thanks to Pastor Jim Miller and board of trustees of First
Baptist
Church, Metuchen for allowing us to celebrate Christmas in their facility. Thanks
to all
the Volunteers who
willingly came forward to make this event grand success. Special thanks to Mr.
Sam Rapaka for
co-ordinating the Christmas Feast arrangements and Mr.
Louis Dundi and Mr.
Ajay Jammula for
arranging the Church facility and also ensuring that the facility is clean and
tidy after the Christmas service.
Our
special meditation programs included the Cottage Prayer meetings during the 6
weeks of Lenten season. UECF
participated in
New Jersey,
Delaware, Virginia and TTCA annual family conferences.
Missions/
Outreach Ministry: UECF
goal and purpose is to participate in the great commission given by our Lord
Jesus in Mark 16:15 ‘Go ye into the all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature’. In 2010 we were able to reach out to unsaved and unreached
through witnessing, tract distribution and DVDs of Jesus film. In 2010
our Lord has given an opportunity to have 4 special Gospel/ Revival meetings,
and some people accepted Christ as their personal Savior, we thank and praise
the Lord for this. So many people have been touched by UECF music ministry, so
many people testified that some of the songs have been encouraging to them and
using our songs in other ministries. We thank and praise God for our musicians
and singers. UECF is also fulfilling the mandate given in Acts Ch: 8
‘Ye
shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem
and all Judea and
in
Samaria
, and unto the uttermost part of the earth’.
Based on the scripture Romans 1:16 ‘I
am not ashamed of the gospel’. UECF wants to do more things in Outreach. We
thank and praise the Lord for all those who have participated through giving,
spending time and sacrifices made.
UECF
is supporting missionaries who are doing missionary service for the spread of
the Gospel primarily in
India
where many people do not know Christ. UECF supported Emmaus Ministries, Rev.
Sama Sunder Saripalli, Good News Messengers, Saviors Heartbeat Ministries, Mrs.
Shasikala Vasanth, Bro. G. James Philip, Rev. Nakka Vivekananda, Gethsemane
Prayer Fellowship, AEL Revival Forum, Pastor Jarugumala Israel, Rev. GCR Arun
Rao, Bro. J. Prem Kumar, Pastor Tummala Daniel, Pastor N. Sudhakar Rao, Sharon
Grace Ministries, Rev. TK Jai Kumar, Bro. Sudheer Meriga, Bro. Joseph Dawson,
Olive Green Ministries, Dr. Augustine Pagolu, Youth Alive Ministries and Bro.
Moshe Dayan as part of missions support. Also UECF supported Cancer hospital and
other evangelists. Thanks for your prayerful financial support. UECF
participated in India Day parade and distributed tracts and Jesus DVD movies and
reached many people on
Oak Tree Rd
on monthly basis.
Music
Ministry:
Praise time has been a vital part of our Sunday Worship Services. We had the
opportunity to sing praises not only in English but also in the regional
languages like Telugu and Hindi. I thank and praise God for giving UECF an
opportunity to reach millions of people worldwide through our special programs
in Aradana, Subhavartha and Miraclenet TV channels. God has given UECF choir an
opportunity to lead the praise and worship in
Delaware
,
Virginia
and TTCA
,
CT
conferences. Thanks to the Praise
Team and to Mr. Samuel Sudhakar Chilaka, Mr. Josiah Srigiri, Mr. Nishanth
Dwaram, Ms. Yuko Unehara for using God given musical talents and Mr.
Naveen Thammadi, Mr. Paul Gummadi, Mr. Ravi Kumar Patnam, Mr. Kiran Devabattula,
Mr. Chakravarthy Thota, Mr. Joseph Marapatla, Mr. Clement Myla, Mr. Samuel
Rapaka, Mr. Ajai Jammula, Mr. Rakshan Pedamuthevi, Mr. Anand Devi, Mr. Joshua
Shaik, Mr. Benedict Ravi, Mr. Prasad Mare, Mrs. Satya Srigiri and Mr. Sanjay
Bhaskar for Photography/ Videography support.
Sunday
School Ministry: We
thank the Lord for UECF Sunday School Children for participating in all special
occasions. Thanks to Sunday School teaching staff Mrs. Emily Myla, Mr. Louis
Dundi, Mrs. Karuna Dwaram, Mrs. Kavitha Shaik, Mrs. Preethi Pilli, Mrs. Sunita
Saripalli, Mrs. Supriya Silvary and Mrs. Sushma Pitta for encouraging children
to exhibit their talents and nurturing the children with the Word of God.
Bible
Study:
UECF monthly Bible Study has been a blessing to many of the members. Thanks to
the efforts of Mr. Josiah Srigiri and Mr. Ravi Rapaka for taking
lead in conducting the Bible Study.
Christmas
Carols:
As we do every year, we participated in Carol rounds during the Christmas
season. In the year 2010, we had visited 61 families as part of our carol rounds
and received your prayerful gifts.
Picnic:
Last year, we had an Annual Family picnic at Merrill Park. Rev. Dr. David
Ravinder shared the word of God during our picnic time. Many families have
actively participated in various items of the picnic.
Fellowship
Hour: Many
of our members have volunteered to host Fellowship Coffee hour after each Sunday
service while celebrating their Birthdays and anniversaries. I
thank all the congregation members for keeping the sanctuary and the fellowship
hall clean and neat after the usage.
Women’s
Prayer Fellowship: UECF
monthly Women’s Prayer Fellowship has been a blessing to many of the members.
Thanks to the encouragement of Mrs. Shanthi Bhaskar and Mrs. Udaya Pulipati,
Mrs. Grace Tsappidi, Mrs. Susan Bushi for leading the fellowship.
UECF.NET:
The presence of UECF is known all over the world through this web site.
Many visitors have attended our worship services and testified that they came to
know about UECF through the website. Some such visitors started attending
regularly.
Many
guests have visited us and worshipped with us during regular Sunday worship and
other Special services. Mr. Joshua Shaik as a Stewardship Coordinator has
helped to reach out the visitors and ensured they signed the Guest Book with
their addresses, also thanks to Mr.
Nishanth Dwaram for arranging the Communion elements on Communion Sundays and
Mr. Anand Devi and Mr. Rakshan Kumar Pedamuthevi for auditing the UECF finances.
I
am thankful to the Executive Committee Mr. Samuel Sudhakar Chilaka(Vice
President), Mr. Ravi Rapaka(Treasurer) and Mr. Nishanth Dwaram(Secretary) for
providing their continual cooperation and support. I also thank the Board
of Trustees and Pastorate Committee, Coordinators and all the members of UECF
for their cooperation. I express my thanks to our Pastors Rev. Dr. David
Ravinder and Rev. David Davis for ministering to us. Thanks to Rev. Dr. Richard
Ruch and Board of Trustees of Reformed Church for their continued support.
I
am extremely happy to inform you that the Lord has blessed UECF ministry with
wonderful messages by Pastors and other eminent Servants of God, Praise and
Worship, Offerings, Children activities and Bible Studies and Outreach and our
Lord’s name was glorified.
In
Him,
Joshua(Phani)
Pilli
23- Jan- 2011
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