Christian young men of parassala can reasonably feel proud to recall that the idea of the YMCA loomed in the minds of their grand-parents even more than a hundred years ago; for, it is quoted on page 3 of the parassala Pastorate Golden Jubilee Souvenir published in 1943, that "it is seen in the Annual Report of the Trivancore District Committee(of the LMS) for 1858, that young men were meeting weekly to study, church history and other useful knowledge".