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Dr. Mrs. Caroline Michael GS, ETF

Faith in the Science Class Room
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Oct - Dec 2022
Everyone deserves a caring friend 8 Vol: 45 | No: 4
Rev. Dr. Augustine A Koshy

Drama but not a Hypocrisy 11 A magazine of the
Dr. Sam Prabhakar Evangelical Teachers’
Fellowship Publication Trust
The Role of Music in Christian Worship 14 Dear friends, Jesus Himself was a master storyteller.
Mr. Judah Jebadas Michael ETF is a National body of He used His parables to comfort the
Christian Teachers in India and a Greetings to you all in the most afflicted and to teach about life issues.
Professional Associate of the UESI
MISSION TRIPS precious and holy name of our Lord and
to Andra Pradesh, Bihar & Uttar Pradesh 20 Saviour Jesus Christ. Praise God for His Earlier Christians have been active
General Secretary grace which enabled all the academic concentrating mainly on pious activities
Praise and Prayer Diary 24 No.1, Fifth Cross Street, activities including the conduction of optimistically believing it was enough to
Dhanalakshmi Nagar, Selaiyur, board exams in schools and University preach the gospel and to help in a
Chennai - 600073. exams in higher education. I am grateful charitable way. Too often Christianity
Mobile No: +919176643007 to God for His grace and guidance in the was thought of only in terms of the Bible,
Email: carolineetf@gmail.com ministry concerns and thankful to all of prayer, and church on Sunday mornings.
you who support, involve in and pray for This approach led many people to
Website: www.etfindia.org the ministry. become Christians but our world has
been totally secularized with almost no
ONLINE TRANSFER In the previous issues of Chalk and Christian influence. It appeared as if the
TO ETF ACCOUNT Chai during this year, we have been church has lost interest in the world
Members or sponsors making reflecting on the themes, Teacher and trending to lose its influence in the world
Chief Editor : Dr. Abhi Sethia contributions to ETF may use the Sports, Teacher and Visual Arts ,Teacher that God created. Day by day, the large
areas of human reality such as philo-
and Literary Arts and this last issue is
Members : Dr. Moses Michael Faraday online transfer facility, payable to
“Evangelical Teachers Fellowship” focusing on 'Teacher and Performing sophy, science, the arts, economics and
: Dr. Jayalatha Chandralal Arts'. God declared all his creation to be politics have been as if handed over to
Ex Officio : Dr. Caroline Michael Indian Overseas Bank
SB A/c No: 019101000032345 very good when He created man. Music the world view.
: Prof. V.D.S.Chandrasekar
MCC Campus, Chennai - 600059 and any kind of performing arts is not an
IFS Code: IOBA0000191 exemption. In 1 Chron. 6:31-32, we find But now we are living in an age of
musicians that David put in charge of explosion of music and performance
Editor’s Note music in the tabernacle who ministered where the art of music and other kinds of
The author of each article is responsible for the correctness of the information given and for the point with music, and performed their duties performance abounds in media inclu-
of view presented, which may or may not represent the official position of ETF. No article appearing in according to regulations laid down for ding gospel music industry. As educators
Chalk & Chai can be reprinted or translated without prior permission. them. The Psalms is a collection of 150 all of us will agree that these days the
Please write to the Chief Editor / Gen Sec for any information regarding this magazine. songs used in Old Testament worship. percentage of students enrolling for
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