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Excerpts from a report by Cindy Rodrigues, Strategy Director of Alpha International

The Alpha course in India has exploded over the past few years. From 2010 to 2011, the number of courses running has grown by 32% to 18,221 courses running across the country

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Youth Alpha Master Training - Melissa Thomas

Having trained over 1500 youth leaders across the country in the year 2011, many of the youth leaders and pastors felt the need to equip the church to be able to conduct their own team training before every course. Many churches that had started the Youth Alpha course wanted to learn better ways of doing the course again. Keeping these needs in mind, we decided to have a Youth Alpha master training…

 

CNI

The Introductory Alpha Training Programme for ministers and lay leaders was organised by Alpha India in collaboration with the Christian Institute for Religious Studies, Batala and the Diocese of Amritsar (C.N.I.) from 5th to 7th December 2011. Among the forty five participants, most of them were attending the Alpha programme for the first time. They were impressed by the potential of the Alpha…

 

Partnership with CSI Karimnagar Diocese

It has been a great joy to see the work of Alpha India flourishing in Andhra Pradesh and especially in the Telangana Region. There is a partnership with CSI church Karimnagar Diocese with Bishop Surya Prakash. The vision of Bishop Surya Prakash is to reach out to the community with the gospel message through all the churches in the Diocese. The Bishop believes that Alpha Course is a wonderful tool…

 

Alpha India Staff Retreat

The Annual Alpha India staff retreat was held in Shillong, also known as the “Scotland of the East”. A week of beautiful scenery and walking through the woods beside the Umiam lake was a real treat at the end of a productive year. Dr. Kuruvilla and his wife Dr. Susan led the Life Revision Seminar for the first three days with spaces of time between for scripture meditation and learning to rest…

 

450 students trained in Allahabad Agricultural College - David Simpson

The last quarter has seen the laying of further foundations for Student Alpha. We have had some really exciting training opportunities. On November 19th we trained 450 students at Allahabad’s Agricultural College (SHIATS). The day-long program served as an introduction to Student Alpha and we are hoping to see many courses come as a result of it. The passion for the Lord was inspiring and infectious…

 

Wherever you work, Alpha can work - Santhosh Chetri

In November, Alpha in the Workplace was presented to the prayer group at Infosys, Bangalore. Infosys is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. More than 20 corporate workers attended the Alpha introduction. They were encouraged to hear Alpha in the Workplace being run in different corporate settings like Larsen and Toubro, IIM, BPO and Engineering College.
 

National Alpha Training - Jimmy Damore

The main resource people were from Bangalore. Mr. Francis Manual, the Training Manager from the National Alpha Office, Ps. Jerald, from Zion Church, were instrumental in keeping the training lively. Ps. Jerald, with his rich experience in running the Alpha course at his church, had much to offer at the training. This training was very effective in equipping the delegates to make a head start…
 

The North East Diaspora in the cities - Rampan Muivah

 

In Delhi city there are 2.5 lakh students from the North East. In Bible colleges in India 90% of the students are from the North East. In Bangalore, 20% of call centre staff are said to be from the North East. We also find that the majority of staff in health care are from the North East.

 

Transforming lives in prisons

Alpha prison gained momentum in the month of September 2011. These are the stories which have taken place in the last 3 months (September-November). We are at present engaged in 5 prisons in the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. In Karnataka, the prison running Alpha are: Nanjangud Central Prison, Chamrajnagar Central Prison and Mysore Central Prison. In Tamil Nadu, Alpha is runs at Coimbatore…

 
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