
Sundays · 11:15 AM
Sunday Schoolസൺഡേ സ്കൂൾ
Pre-K to grade 12 in eleven classrooms, using the diocesan curriculum. Annual exam in March, prize day in May.

Children & youthകുട്ടികളും യുവജനങ്ങളും
One hundred and twelve children from Pre-K to grade 12, eighteen volunteer teachers, and an exam every March that the kids take more seriously than we expected.
Programsപരിപാടികൾ
Everything below is free. Sunday School and Youth Fellowship are in English. Malayalam class is, of course, in Malayalam.

Sundays · 11:15 AM
Pre-K to grade 12 in eleven classrooms, using the diocesan curriculum. Annual exam in March, prize day in May.

Saturdays · 10:00 AM
Ages 6 to 14 learn to read and write the script, starting with അ and ending, by May, with a hymn they can sing to their grandparents.

Sundays · 12:30 PM
Grades 7 to 12. Pizza, a question box, and one retreat each spring at a camp near Lake Texoma.

Saturdays · 6:00 PM
Ages 18 to 40. Supper, a talk, volleyball in the spring and the nine nights of carol rounds in December.

June 15 – 19 · 9 AM – 1 PM
Five mornings of songs, crafts and Bible stories, with the youth as helpers and the Sevika Sangham on snacks.
Weekly programആഴ്ചതോറുമുള്ള പരിപാടികൾ
Rooms are in the education wing behind the hall. Doors open fifteen minutes before each start.
SundayToday
Education wing, rooms 1–11 · Pre-K to grade 12
Hall B · Grades 7–12
WednesdayToday
Room 4 · Ages 4–10
FridayToday
Host homes
SaturdayToday
Rooms 2 and 3 · Ages 6–14
Nave · Ages 13+
Hall A · Ages 18–40
From the classroomsക്ലാസ്മുറികളിൽ നിന്ന്
I can write my name in Malayalam now. Ammachi cried.
The March exam is harder than my real exams.
Carol rounds are the best nine nights of the year. Thirty houses, thirty plates of cake.
My son is the only one in his school who knows what a Qurbana is. He is very proud of that.
I teach grade 3 because somebody taught me grade 3, in this same room, in 1996.
For parentsമാതാപിതാക്കൾക്ക്
Fill in the enrollment card at the Sunday School desk in the education wing, or email the headmistress, Dr. Lissy Oommen, at sundayschool@example.org. Enrollment is open all year.
No. Classes are taught in English using the diocese's curriculum. Malayalam class on Saturday is separate and optional.
Every teacher and helper completes a background check and the diocese's child-safety training every two years. No adult is ever alone with a child.
Yes. Bring their last report card or ask their old headmaster to email us, and we'll place them in the matching class.
Late joiners are welcome all year. Find the Sunday School desk by the education wing doors.
Design notes
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.07:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.84:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 7.2:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.14:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 4.64:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.81:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.86:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.14:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.39:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.43:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.83:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.8:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 10.01:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 10.13:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.51:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.26:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.13:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 10.13:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.89:1 | AA |
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