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This weekഈ ആഴ്ചHoly Qurbanaകുർബ്ബാനPrayer groupsപ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗങ്ങൾChildren & youthകുട്ടികൾNew familiesപുതിയ കുടുംബങ്ങൾOur parishഇടവകOfferingകാണിക്ക
St. Thomas
St. Thomas
This weekഈ ആഴ്ചHoly Qurbanaകുർബ്ബാനPrayer groupsപ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗങ്ങൾChildren & youthകുട്ടികൾNew familiesപുതിയ കുടുംബങ്ങൾOur parishഇടവകOfferingകാണിക്ക

9120 Plano Rd, Dallas, TX 75238

(555) 014-3862

secretary@example.org

Transfer your membershipഅംഗത്വം ഇങ്ങോട്ട് മാറ്റുക

Week of 11 Octoberഒക്ടോബർ 11 മുതലുള്ള ആഴ്ച

This week at St. Thomasഈ ആഴ്ച സെന്റ് തോമസിൽ

Qurbana on Sunday morning, evening prayer on Zoom most weeknights at nine, and six living rooms open for prayer on Friday. Every one of these is open to visitors.ഞായർ രാവിലെ കുർബ്ബാന, രാത്രി 9 മണിക്ക് Zoom-ൽ സന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന, വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച ആറ് വീടുകളിൽ പ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗം. എല്ലാവർക്കും സ്വാഗതം.

Next upYour first Qurbanaആദ്യമായി കുർബ്ബാനയ്ക്ക്

Sunഞായർ11

  • 9:00Holy Qurbana, Malayalamവിശുദ്ധ കുർബ്ബാന
  • 11:15Sunday Schoolസൺഡേ സ്കൂൾ
  • 12:30Youth Fellowshipയൂത്ത് ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്

Monതിങ്കൾ12

  • 9:00 PMEvening prayer, Zoomസന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന

Tueചൊവ്വ13

  • 11:00Senior fellowshipസീനിയർ ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്
  • 9:00 PMEvening prayer, Zoomസന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന

Wedബുധൻ14

  • 7:30 PMBible study, Hall Bബൈബിൾ പഠനം

Thuവ്യാഴം15

  • 7:00 PMEdavaka Mission meetingഇടവക മിഷൻ
  • 9:00 PMEvening prayer, Zoomസന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന

Friവെള്ളി16

  • 7:30 PMArea prayer groups, six homesഏരിയ പ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗം

Satശനി17

  • 10:00Malayalam classമലയാളം ക്ലാസ്
  • 4:00 PMChoir practiceഗായകസംഘം
  • 6:00 PMYuvajana Sakhyamയുവജനസഖ്യം
Priest's hands holding a chalice marked with a chi-rho

Sunday, 10:20 AM

Achen lifts the cup before Communion. The choir sings the Hasho in Malayalam while the families come forward.

Holy Qurbanaവിശുദ്ധ കുർബ്ബാന

Malayalam most Sundays. English on the second and fifth.മിക്ക ഞായറാഴ്ചകളിലും മലയാളം; രണ്ടാമത്തെയും അഞ്ചാമത്തെയും ഞായർ ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്.

Our Sunday service is the Holy Qurbana, the Communion liturgy the Mar Thoma Church has prayed in Malayalam since the reformation of the 1830s. It begins at nine and runs about an hour and forty minutes, with the sermon after the Gospel reading.

The words go up on the screens in Malayalam script, in Manglish for those who speak it but can't read it, and in English. Spouses who married into the parish follow along fine, and so do the grandchildren.

  • Liturgy book in both languages in every pew
  • Sermon in English on the second Sunday
  • Crying room with a speaker at the back of the nave
  • Tea and snacks in the hall at 10:45
Your first Qurbanaആദ്യമായി കുർബ്ബാനയ്ക്ക് Weekday prayer timesപ്രാർത്ഥനാ സമയങ്ങൾ

Parish fellowshipsഇടവകയിലെ സംഘടനകൾ

Somewhere for every age, most nights of the weekഎല്ലാ പ്രായക്കാർക്കും ഒരിടം

Sevika Sanghamസേവികാസംഘം2nd Saturday, 10:00 AMWomen of the parish

Bible study, prayer and the Christmas sale of achappam and kuzhalappam. The Sangham also sponsors two girls' hostels in Kerala.

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Yuvajana Sakhyamയുവജനസഖ്യംSaturdays, 6:00 PMAges 18 to 40, married or not

Supper, a talk and a lot of volleyball in season. They run the carol rounds every December.

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Youth Fellowshipയൂത്ത് ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്Sundays, 12:30 PMGrades 7 to 12

An hour after Sunday School with pizza, questions and the occasional debate. Mostly in English.

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Senior fellowshipസീനിയർ ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്Tuesdays, 11:00 AMRetirees and grandparents

Prayer, a short reading and lunch in Hall A. Volunteers will pick you up if you no longer drive.

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Edavaka Missionഇടവക മിഷൻ3rd Thursday, 7:00 PMAnyone

Prays for and funds the Mar Thoma mission centers in north India. Gives about $38,000 a year.

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ChoirഗായകസംഘംSaturdays, 4:00 PMTeens and adults

Leads the Qurbana and sings the Christmas cantata. No audition. You do need to read Malayalam or Manglish.

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Malayalam classമലയാളം ക്ലാസ്Saturdays, 10:00 AMAges 6 to 14

Reading and writing the alphabet, then the Lord's Prayer and a few kristheeya keerthanangal by spring.

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Tall pillar candles burning in a church

The name on our doorഞങ്ങളുടെ പേര്

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
John 20:28The confession of the apostle our church is named for, said in every Qurbana.

Coming upവരാനിരിക്കുന്നവ

On the parish calendarഇടവക കലണ്ടർ

Oct25

Sevika Sangham Sunday

9:00 AM · Nave

The women of the parish lead the whole service, and the offering goes to the hostels in Kerala.

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Nov7

Harvest Festival

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM · Hall and parking lot

Food stalls, the lelam auction of donated goods, and a tug-of-war the Yuvajana Sakhyam never wins.

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Nov26

Thanksgiving Day service

8:30 AM · Nave

A short service of thanks before the turkey, or the duck curry.

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Dec12

Carol rounds begin

6:00 PM nightly · Members' homes

Nine nights, about thirty homes a night. Tell the Sakhyam if you would like a visit.

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Dec24

Christmas service

10:00 PM · Nave

Holy Qurbana in Malayalam, then cake and coffee in the hall after midnight.

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Dec31

Watch-night service

11:00 PM · Nave

We pray the old year out and the new one in, as every Kerala church does.

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Nothing in that category this month.

Photographsചിത്രങ്ങൾ

A year on Plano Roadപ്ലേനോ റോഡിലെ ഒരു വർഷം

Taken by members, always with permission. Most of them were taken in the hall.

Sevika Sangham's visit to the hostel tailoring unit in Pathanamthitta, 2025
Sevika Sangham's visit to the hostel tailoring unit in Pathanamthitta, 2025
Harvest Festival lunch: rice, sambar, thoran and the beef fry that always runs out
Harvest Festival lunch: rice, sambar, thoran and the beef fry that always runs out
Sunday School picnic at White Rock Lake
Sunday School picnic at White Rock Lake
Holy Qurbana, the elevation
Holy Qurbana, the elevation
Making kozhukatta for the senior fellowship
Making kozhukatta for the senior fellowship

Want a photo taken down, or a copy for yourself? Write to the secretary.

New in Dallas? Bring your transfer letter.ഡാലസിൽ പുതിയതാണോ? ഞങ്ങളെ അറിയിക്കൂ.

Tell us which parish you are coming from. Achen will visit your home within the month, and the prayer group nearest you will call before Friday.

Transfer your membershipഅംഗത്വം ഇങ്ങോട്ട് മാറ്റുക Find a prayer group firstപ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗം
St. Thomas

A parish of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, Diocese of North America and Europe. About 240 families from across Dallas–Fort Worth, most with roots in central Travancore.മാർത്തോമ്മാ സുറിയാനി സഭയുടെ നോർത്ത് അമേരിക്ക–യൂറോപ്പ് ഭദ്രാസനത്തിലെ ഒരു ഇടവക.

Find usവഴി

  • 9120 Plano Rd, Dallas, TX 75238
  • (555) 014-3862
  • secretary@example.org
  • Holy Qurbana, Sundays 9:00 AMവിശുദ്ധ കുർബ്ബാന, ഞായർ രാവിലെ 9:00
  • Sunday School 11:15 AMസൺഡേ സ്കൂൾ 11:15
  • Evening prayer on Zoom, weeknights 9:00 PMസന്ധ്യാ പ്രാർത്ഥന, രാത്രി 9:00
  • This weekഈ ആഴ്ച
  • Holy Qurbanaകുർബ്ബാന
  • Prayer groupsപ്രാർത്ഥനാ യോഗങ്ങൾ
  • Children & youthകുട്ടികൾ
  • New familiesപുതിയ കുടുംബങ്ങൾ
  • Our parishഇടവക
  • Offeringകാണിക്ക
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Design notes

Why St. Thomas Mar Thoma looks the way it does

A site for a Malayalam-speaking Mar Thoma parish whose members live all over the Metroplex and see each other in two places: the Sunday Qurbana on Plano Road and a living room on Friday night. The home page is the week itself, because the first thing a member checks is what's on, and the second-most-important page is a map of the prayer groups.

Built for
Kerala Christian families across Dallas–Fort Worth: founding-generation nurses and engineers, their American-raised children and grandchildren, and new families arriving on work visas from Kerala, the Gulf and other US cities.
Navigation
Slim icon rail. A narrow fixed rail with a vertical wordmark leaves the full width for photography and type.
Pages
This week, Holy Qurbana, Prayer groups, Children & youth, New families, Our parish, Offering
Hero
a short action form as the hero: the one thing most visitors came to do (request a ride, ask for help, register a child) can be done before they scroll, with reassurance beside it. Variants: a = headline, reassurance and a photo on the left with the form as a raised card on the right; b = a tall photo carrying the headline, with the form and reassurance on a plain panel beside it; c = headline beside a photo, then the form laid out as one horizontal booking bar; a drawn neighbourhood map as the opener, with numbered pins for each stop or campus and a list of names, addresses and times beside it; pointing at a list item lights up its pin. Built for mobile pantries, multi-site churches and bus routes. Variants: a = map on the left, headline and stop list on the right; b = headline across the top, a wide map, and the stops as columns beneath; c = a route: stops as a connected timeline beside a map with the path drawn between pins; This week's schedule is the hero: day columns with what is on, so regulars and newcomers see when to come before anything else

Typography

Yrsa was drawn by Rosetta as part of a multi-script project for Indian publishing, so its Latin was designed to sit beside Indic text. The body face is Anek Latin with Anek Malayalam for the translation, both from Ek Type in Mumbai, so a heading and its Malayalam line carry the same weight. The type ratio stays a modest 1.22 because grandparents read this site too.

Color

The green is the color of the backwaters and coconut palms in central Travancore, deepened until white text passes contrast on it. The brass accent comes from the nilavilakku, the standing oil lamp in every Kerala home and church. The double rules between sections are a nod to the gold border on a kasavu sari or mundu.

Layout and navigation

A slim icon rail keeps all seven pages in reach without a crowded header, and the labels switch to Malayalam with everything else. On phones it folds into a single menu button. Pages are named the way members talk about parish life: Qurbana, prayer groups, Sunday School, offering.

The hero

The home page opens with the week itself: seven columns from Sunday Qurbana to Saturday choir, with today highlighted and a countdown to the next gathering. For a parish where most people come to several things a week, that's more useful than any welcome photo.

Calls to action

The standing action is 'Transfer your membership', because new families arriving in Dallas want to belong properly, and the transfer letter is the step they're unsure about. The other actions are concrete: find your prayer group, enroll for Sunday School, your first Qurbana.

Photography

We used photographs of South Asian families, elders and young people wherever the library had them, and otherwise chose close-ups of the chalice, the lamps and the food that don't misrepresent who is in the room. There are no stock crowd shots of a different congregation.

Bilingual by design

Every heading, button, schedule entry and page name has a natural Malayalam version. Longer paragraphs stay in English, which is how the parish's own notices are written, so second-generation members aren't left out. The liturgy table explains exactly which Sundays are in which language.

Accessibility

Body text is 17px with generous leading, every color pairing passes WCAG AA in both themes, and the language switch sets the lang attribute so screen readers pronounce Malayalam correctly. The map page lists every group in plain text beside the drawing.

Type system

  • DisplayYrsaYrsa came out of Rosetta's multi-script work for Indian publishing, so it was drawn to sit beside non-Latin text on the same line without shouting over it.
  • TextAnek LatinAnek is a type family from Ek Type in Mumbai with a Malayalam sibling, so English and Malayalam lines share stroke weight and rhythm.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa14.81:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa16.07:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.84:1AA
LinksAa7.2:1AAA
Button textAa8.14:1AAA
Accent label textAa4.64:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa14.81:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.86:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa8.14:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.39:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.43:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa13.83:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.8:1AA
LinksAa10.01:1AAA
Button textAa10.13:1AAA
Accent label textAa9.51:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa16.26:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.13:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa10.13:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.89:1AA

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