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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
Group of smiling children standing together outdoors

Children & youthകുട്ടികളും യുവജനങ്ങളും

Sunday School, Malayalam class and the restസൺഡേ സ്കൂളും മലയാളം ക്ലാസും

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

For children, teens and young adultsകുട്ടികൾക്കും യുവാക്കൾക്കും

Everything below is free. Sunday School and Youth Fellowship are in English. Malayalam class is, of course, in Malayalam.

Woman and children drawing with chalk on a playground

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.

Enroll your child
Hand writing on paper with a black pen

Saturdays · 10:00 AM

Malayalam classമലയാളം ക്ലാസ്

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.

Save a place
Teens sitting in a circle on a park lawn

Sundays · 12:30 PM

Youth Fellowshipയൂത്ത് ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്

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

Meet the leaders
Five young men smiling together at an indoor event

Saturdays · 6:00 PM

Yuvajana Sakhyamയുവജനസഖ്യം

Ages 18 to 40. Supper, a talk, volleyball in the spring and the nine nights of carol rounds in December.

Come on Saturday
Young children playing hand bells in a colorful classroom

June 15 – 19 · 9 AM – 1 PM

Vacation Bible Schoolവിബിഎസ്

Five mornings of songs, crafts and Bible stories, with the youth as helpers and the Sevika Sangham on snacks.

Register for VBS

Weekly programആഴ്ചതോറുമുള്ള പരിപാടികൾ

When and where, day by dayദിവസം തോറും

Rooms are in the education wing behind the hall. Doors open fifteen minutes before each start.

SundayToday

  • 11:15 AM–12:20 PM

    Sunday School

    Education wing, rooms 1–11 · Pre-K to grade 12

    Children
  • 12:30–1:30 PM

    Youth Fellowship

    Hall B · Grades 7–12

    Youth

WednesdayToday

  • 7:30–8:45 PM

    Kids' corner at Bible study

    Room 4 · Ages 4–10

    Children

FridayToday

  • 8:00 PM

    Children's prayer at area groups

    Host homes

    Children

SaturdayToday

  • 10:00–11:30 AM

    Malayalam class

    Rooms 2 and 3 · Ages 6–14

    Language
  • 4:00–5:30 PM

    Choir (youth section)

    Nave · Ages 13+

    Music
  • 6:00–8:30 PM

    Yuvajana Sakhyam

    Hall A · Ages 18–40

    Youth

From the classroomsക്ലാസ്മുറികളിൽ നിന്ന്

What the kids actually sayകുട്ടികൾ പറയുന്നത്

I can write my name in Malayalam now. Ammachi cried.
Aleena, 8Malayalam class
The March exam is harder than my real exams.
Jeswin, 13Sunday School, grade 8
Carol rounds are the best nine nights of the year. Thirty houses, thirty plates of cake.
Sneha, 22Yuvajana Sakhyam
My son is the only one in his school who knows what a Qurbana is. He is very proud of that.
Mercy J.Parent
I teach grade 3 because somebody taught me grade 3, in this same room, in 1996.
Shibu V.Sunday School teacher

For parentsമാതാപിതാക്കൾക്ക്

Enrolling your childകുട്ടിയെ ചേർക്കാൻ

How do I enroll?

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.

Is Sunday School in Malayalam?

No. Classes are taught in English using the diocese's curriculum. Malayalam class on Saturday is separate and optional.

Are teachers background-checked?

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.

My child transferred from a Sunday School in Kerala. Do grades carry over?

Yes. Bring their last report card or ask their old headmaster to email us, and we'll place them in the matching class.

Classes start again on the first Sunday after Labor Dayക്ലാസുകൾ സെപ്റ്റംബറിൽ

Late joiners are welcome all year. Find the Sunday School desk by the education wing doors.

Enroll for Sunday Schoolസൺഡേ സ്കൂളിൽ ചേർക്കുക
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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