Sai Ram, Everyone,
1) This Sunday (12 June), our Bhajan Session will be face-to-face at Jubilee Wood Primary School [1 Fishermead Boulevard, MK6 2LB]. There will be Bal Vikas Classes conducted in person.
We have a Guest Speaker, Sis. Daksha Trivedi, a long-time Sai devotee, who will tell us how she came into the Sai fold.
Below are details of the protocol for the day : Peter, the Site Manager, will open up the School at 8:30 a.m. and close it soon after 11:30 a.m.
The Sai Organisation will still be taking COVID Prevention Precautions, so when you reach the School, please:
– Write your name and Contact Number in the Register that will be outside the School Hall. If you are coming as a family, please put just one name and then ‘+ the number of people’. For example, if the Reddy family of five come for the Bhajans, they would simply write ‘Shantha Reddy + 4’. This will speed up processing of attendees.
– Please wear a face covering. If you have your own, please bring it along.
– Allow your temperature to be taken (Anyone with a temperature higher than 37.5 o Celsius, will be asked to return home and self-isolate).
– Use the hand-sanitizer that will be available.
Anyone showing symptoms of COVID-19 (i.e., a high temperature, a continuous cough, a loss of taste and/or smell) should not attend face-to-face Bhajans.
Anyone showing COVID symptoms after attending the Bhajans, should inform Suresh by e-mail at [email protected], or by telephoning 07476 006 739.
Once in the Hall, please take a seat. Musicians and singers only, please sit on the floor.
Singers are requested to put a microphone cover over the microphone before singing. After their Bhajan, the microphone cover has to be removed, and the microphone wiped down with an Antiseptic Wipe before the microphone is passed to the next singer.
We will endeavour to have adequate ventilation.
For the Aarthi, an electric tea-light will be utilised. No incense sticks or naked flames are to be used in the School (due to clauses in their Fire Insurance Policy).
After the Bhajans, a team of specific volunteers will pack everything away.
Toilets
There will be three toilet cubicles downstairs for our use.
Fire Drill
There will be a Fire Drill at about 11:00 a.m. Everyone has to make their way out in an orderly manner and assemble in the playground. A representative from the School will be there to observe that we conduct ourselves appropriately.2) Seva at the Japanese Buddhist TempleSis . Maruta, of the Nipponzan Myohoji Japanese Buddhist Temple, has asked if we can, as in previous years, help out at the Peace Festival which takes place on Sunday 19 June 2022. The attachments at the end of the Announcements give the details of the Programme for the day.
In terms of Seva, the following personnel are needed:
4 people to help put up streamers near the Peace Pagoda, on Saturday 18 June, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.;
6 people to set up the Prayer Items, chairs, and decorations, on Sunday 19 June, from 7:00 to 9:30 a.m., and then to put away all the Prayer Items, chairs, and decorations, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
3 people to manage Car Parking, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch will be provided for all involved.
Please register your interest with Godfrey (at [email protected]). This is a really worthwhile Seva which is much appreciated by all.
3) Donation for Lunch at the Peace FestivalAt this year’s Peace Festival the plan is to give out Lunch Packs to the attendees (instead of hot food as in previous years). The cost of the Lunch Packs is estimated to be £200. If you’d like to contribute towards this, please contact Kesan, our Treasurer, at k[email protected]
4) National Prayers for Universal Peace
Reference the above at the Sri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple in Birmingham, we have eight people so far wanting to go on the coach organised for the event. If you would like to travel similarly, please send a message stating numbers, to [email protected], by Saturday 11 June 2022.
Details of the event are given below:
Sunday, 17th July 2022
8:30am – 4:30pm
Venue: Sri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple, Dudley Road East, Birmingham B69 3DU
Devotees have an opportunity to participate in a Paduka Puja (worshipping of Swami’s Lotus Feet) and Rudra Homam along with a member of their family.
If you would like to participate in the Paduka Puja, please email: [email protected]
Please note, places will be reserved on a first come, first served basis.
5) The Independent Monitoring Board at Woodhill PrisonThere is a need for members of the BME (Black & Minority Ethnic) Community to join the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Woodhill, here in Milton Keynes. Please take a few minutes to read the attachment below which gives details of what is involved. If you’d like to know about Woodhill Prison before putting your name forward, please contact Suresh (at [email protected]) as he was the Hindu Chaplain there for eight years.
Being in the IMB is a really worthwhile Seva, and one that will give you great insight into how the Prison System works. Please apply by contacting David Ward, the Chairperson of the IMB at Woodhill, at [email protected]
In Sai Service, The Office-Bearer Team, Milton Keynes,
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