Choir at the Chapel service!

After my retirement form CMC Vellore eight years ago, I was able to be back at the chapel service in the evening on Sunday! The service is now in the auditorium unlike in the past where it used to be in the chapel. The chapel is not large enough to accommodate about 600 people who attend the service.

The choir largely consisting of students often sings an anthem before the message. The conductor Dr. Sujith Chandy makes the choir practices a pleasurable experience and makes the choir members feel valued for spending the time to practice!

The choir and its choral presentations add to the richness of the worship experience!

MC.Mathew(text and photo) 

Sound and Light show!

I watched a Sound and Light show depicting the history of CMC Vellore in the sunken garden in front of the college chapel! It captured the early years of the beginning of the hospital as a one bed clinic with the narration of the experience which moved a young Dr. Ida Scudder to set out on this journey of responding to the health care needs of people of vellore 116 years ago! 

Dr. Sanjeeth Peter who conceived and presented this told me yesterday that the preparation is underway to have it as a permanent feature. 

There are at least 150 public functions such as conferences, workshops, etc every year which bring hundreds of  visitors to the institution! The story of CMC has an inspirational appeal because, its evolution to what it is today is a miracle... because hundreds of its alumni represent the mission of the institution in their calling and places of work!

CMC Vellore has had a transforming impact on the lives of its alumni!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo) 

Following a poster presentation!

After a poster presentation by the students of the MOSC Medical college of their research work last week, some students were helping in gathering them back to their poster bags.

One of the students mentioned that, it is the summary of five months of work!

What we see in one poster is the result of hours spent in thinking, investigating, compiling, interpreting and writing!

Behind any finished work there is a story! And that story has a formative influence!

After this we had a time of fellowship with some students. One of them who presented his research work along with four others at the Warsaw Student's conference said, 'this research has taken us to places for our further learning...'

One benefit, the student research projects brought to ninety students during the last three yet in a new quality of 'reading to learn'.

M.C.Mathew(text and research)

From Beginning to Ongoing to finishing !

Every time I watch the floral decorations done on the floor for different occasions, I like to watch the beginning, the ongoing process and the finishing! Each gives different thoughts about the process.

The beginnings are slow and would normally have revisions of plan and progress with no major change to the design.

Th ongoing process to continue and complete is easier and needs less attention.

The finishing is sometimes more demanding and time consuming than even the beginning! It is given utmost importance because of the need to make it visually appealing and artistically elegant!

I have struggles to begin and finish projects ! I give up half way when the pressures come upon me! If I got through the hurdles of the ongoing process, I usually finish a project!

I usually audit this process every three months or so to connect with what is going on within. All ideas do not need attention beyond thinking about them. Some need to go beyond that stage and need an expression! That is one way of self disclosure of who we are and what do we pursue as a mission!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)