The Orthodox Christian Youth Movement (OCYM)
The Youth-wing of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church provides an active leadership and Christian witness in the Church and society. It contributes to the goodness and progress of the Church and community in the three-fold path of worship, study and service. It aims at molding the minds and visions of the youth against the background of the contemporary issues.
Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement (MGOCSM)
Mar Gregorios Orthodox Christian Student Movement (MGOCSM) is the student wing of the Church.
The combined group of OCYM & MGOCSM conducts weekly meeting at the church after the Sunday service.
Objectives of this Group
• To deepen the spiritual life of the Youth
• To prepare them to be responsible citizens in the Church and Society
• To encourage them to commit themselves for sacrificial services in the church and society.
OCYM & MGOCSM of SDIOC – NZ embodies these objectives and maintains a interdisciplinary contact with academicians to help student fraternity of the parish and especially students from India who migrates to New Zealand on study purposes with pastoral care. We also bring together christian students from various parts of NZ to deepening their spiritual life and create in them a lively sense of fellowship.
“A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.” – Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriarch of Alexandria.
Activities: Monthly cottage meetings, bible study, conferences, annual picnics, annual social service activities, and work force of in all church activities.
