Sai Ram, All,
For a transformational Bhajan Session this Sunday (24 October), please log on using the following details, from 08:45 hours :
Meeting ID: 889 7278 5692
Passcode: 860849
As mentioned last week, we have an opportunity to send an expression of gratitude to Swami on his Birthday this year ! Please see message below from Ketanbhai, our National President. The message also gives details of the National Birthday Celebrations taking place on Saturday 20 November 2021. Submission of the expression of gratitude is straightforward using the link given in Ketanbhai’s message. The deadline is 31 October 2021.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Jai Sai Ram.
On behalf of Sri Sathya Sai Organisation United Kingdom (SSSO UK), I would like to invite everyone to join us at the National Online Birthay Celebrations on Saturday November 20th from 4pm – 7pm, marking the 96th year of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s Advent.The theme for this year’s Birthday Programme is ‘Celebrating life with Sai’.
Birthday Celebrations Invite 2021.mov
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 13 Ch. 19, November 23, 1975
*Baba’s Birthday Bake-Off 2021* 🎂(please see attached)
Ever made a cake before? Experienced baker or just a beginner… it doesn’t matter. Here’s an opportunity to celebrate Bhagawan’s Birthday by baking a cake for Him.
We invite everyone to bake a cake for Swami’s 96th Birthday, no matter how good you are. Everyone’s offering will be shown at the National Birthday Celebrations Programme on Saturday 20th November, online at 4 – 7pm.
Please send photos of your cake, and with your family around it to [email protected] by Monday the 15th of November. There may even be a prize for first place!
Service Matters : The Brigade of Sevadals !
The Breakfast Programme for Schoolchildren
Last week, we announced that with effect from the second half of this Term, we would be looking for a different way of supporting children experiencing Food Poverty in Milton Keynes. A Report on the background to this decision will be ready in November. If anyone would like sight of the Report, please send an e-mail to [email protected]
Massive praise for Shivani and her Team of Singers, from Deputy Lieutenant Francesca Skelton!
Dear Suresh
I have been meaning to write to you for ages to say how impressed and moved I was by your Sri Sathya Sai Youth Choir, who sang at the Multifaith Service in Campbell Park on Thursday 9 September. The children and young people had such beautiful voices and sang so well together. I had to look up just now to remind myself of a term I was seeking and after a bit of googling I found it: Ensemble singing! Below is the BBC Bitesize definition
‘Ensemble singing describes how a choir of many voices blends together to sound like one big voice. When you sing in a choir, you are part of a team.’
I felt your young people were very much a team. If I remember rightly one of the older girls did quite a lot of solo singing, with the choir supporting. She had a stunning voice. I take a great interest in singing as my daughter Anna learnt to sing well in the MK Youth Choir, went on to be a choral scholar at university, and it remains a central joy in her life.
In my role as Chair of the Arts and Heritage Alliance we embarked on a journey to explore our Cultural Inclusion and Diversity in MK. We did some research and wrote a report
http://aha-mk.org/inclusion-and-diversity/ and were much supported in this journey by Gamiel Yafai. We are doing some projects now to encourage young people to have some work experience in the cultural sector, as it is very much a business with a whole range of roles from finance, to communication and marketing, as well as curating, and events management. We are also working with diverse communities to explore issue of identify through commissioning an artist.
And as a Deputy Lieutenant I and some fellow DLs have been asked to form a working group to build Lieutenancy connections with our diverse communities and faiths across Buckinghamshire.
For both these reasons it was a great experience to be at the Interfaith Service (albeit rather cold by the end). And for me and for Sarah Clarke, another MK based DL in MK, the beauty, quality and commitment of your choir was a real highlight. I am sorry it has taken so long to share our praise and delight!
With all good wishes
Francesca
Francesca Skelton DL
In Sai Service, the Office-Bearer Team, Milton Keynes,
