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Free Tuition Centre

Both Socially and academically rehabilitated grownups of Paraikankal are given special coaching in the evening tuition centre. There are enough well trained teachers, the tutors who academically engage the school going and college going students by giving them regular, systematic, well planned and well structuredspecial tuition classes. There are about 120 student who undergo regular learning and tuition classes which help them promote their studies and reinforce and effectively supplement the ongoing programmes in the respective schools and colleges. The tuition centre gives much needed academic and educational filling, the process of growing up as well equipped students to face the future with courage and confidence. There are students ranging from LKG to liberal education in arts and science colleges and professional education in Engineering and Para-medical institutions. What is quite impressive about the entire academic venture is that three students from a very marginalized, perhaps the most backward region in Kanyakumari District have entered the portals of professional institutions (Engineering) and six students to Arts and Science college as first generation learners. The tuition classes are held regularly between 5.30 and 8.30 pm every day except Sundays and the students are given snacks and tea at the start and supper at the end of the classes by way of meting out their dire domestic economic needs. How true it is, God comes to the poor in the form of food and education.

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Free Medical Services

Yet another area is the health care and healing as part of the outreach ministry of Christ's Harvest Mission. The entire most backward area, Paraikankalrequires regular health care work and periodic health campaigns to help the locals sustain a hygienic and wellness oriented and environment friendly clean life. Doctors with different specializations volunteer themselves to come as a team of every department of paramedical staff and cater to the medical and health care needs of every person of the village. This is a noble service offered by CHM to keep the hapless men, women and children of the huts and hamlets, live and lead a disease free and healthy growing familial and social life. Children who are susceptible to every kind of disease and different types of illnesses are specially taken care of by the health care ministry. Regular check-up, carrying out the required investigations, providing treatment with the required medicines and thus keeping their level of awareness of health concerns and wellness all with the help of well meaning doctors and munificent donors is the chief hallmark of the entire health care and healing ministry.

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Sunday Worship

Every Sunday regular worship service is conducted in the chapel by way of offering the spiritual food, moral instruction, ethical guidance and value based education to the budding children and youth of Paraikankal. The worship service is well complemented through a well-knit and equally well co-ordinated network of Sunday school, VBS, Fasting prayer, All night prayer etc.,

The children and youth numbering more than 70, together with a few parents and a few public members regularly attend the worship service. The service is held between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon, with singing, reading of the scriptures and sharing of the Lord's word. What is amazing is the youth of the Paraikankal themselves lead the singing and the reading part of the services with the training in singing and handling musical instruments.

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Sunday School

The Sunday Worship service is complemented by Spiritual, religious, moral and value based instruction with the Holy Bible as the central focus. To grow in the Lord with fear and piety is the beginning of their acquisition of knowledge and wisdom. The Sunday class serves as a good spring-board for their holistic and all round development as worthy citizens of the nation, fellow beings of the community, members of the society, children of the family and above all responsible students and pupils of their respective educational institutions. The Sunday class is being held between 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm. There are teachers willingly offering their services. There are about 60 students of different levels seriously pursuing their Sunday classes.

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Vacation Bible School

Besides the regular worship service and Sunday classes, during every summer holidays Vacation Bible School is conducted for a period of seven days. It's a matter of great joy that more than 450 students from across the length and breadth of the local area participate in the Vacation Bible School.

Teachers drawn from local churches are the bulwark on which rest the glorious and unprecedented success of the Vacation Bible School. The seven day training is the ideal way of strengthening the children's faith, commitment and value based upbringing realizing their civic responsibilities and the need for maintaining friendly, tolerant, inter-personal relationship with all their neighbours of all faiths and all beliefs. The VBS also helps and students to mould their personality to hone their latent talents and sharpen their overflowing creativity. At the end of the VBS, the variety of religio-cultural programs prepared, managed and staged by the students all on their own with the help of the teachers is a standing witness. True, with much difficulty, yet with loving care the CHM provides all those who attend the VBS with snacks and drink and a nutritive lunch.

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Christmas

Christmas, for Christ's Harvest Mission, is a celebration of the liberation and empowerment of the hapless poor and the most side lined sections of the community. Christmas throws up the challenge of loving others, living for others and sharing with others.

To CHM, Christmas is a celebration with a difference. The joy and happiness ofChristmas should dispel the darkness and desolation of the poor and the needy and those who live below the poverty line. On the occasion of every Christmas, CHM identifies the least of the least brothers and sisters, who are hungry and we feed them, who are naked and we cloth them, who are thirsty and we give them to drink, who are shacked with the sorrows and pressures of life and we liberate them. 100 families identified exclusively for this purpose would be given clothes, utensils for their homes and provisions for the Christmas meal. This would be gifted as a token of Christ's loving kindness at a special function to be held on 23rd Dec. every year in which all inmates, the tuition boys and girls, the beneficiaries, the teachers and the custodians of CHM would gather in a fellowship of sharing Christ's love in peace, joy and Good will with all people around us. This Christmas Eve get-together is also an occasion when all learners and students, whether it be a kid or a teenager or an adolescent or an adult would artistically share with a larger fellowship present Christ's love for the deprived human kind in creative art forms.