Panorama of Events

Report from California, U.S.A.

Master's Blessings Permeate a Chinese Family Festival

[Los Angeles] On August 28-29, 1999 initiates from the Los Angeles Center participated in the "Family Fun Festival" sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Monterey Park, California, a predominantly Chinese community east of L.A. We also printed special Chinese flyers introducing Master's teachings and distributed them to visitors, along with a generous amount of candy, which was eagerly grabbed up by visiting children.

Through God's arrangement, our booth was relocated at the last minute to an attractive, shady location right near the entrance to the Festival, thus giving us an advantageous place from which to share the message about Master and the Quan Yin Method. Since we were in this spot, virtually everyone who attended the Festival had to pass by our display, and so were blessed through hearing Master's voice and seeing Her image in video lectures that were shown continuously during the Festival.

Throughout the Festival, the weather was excellent and the atmosphere was uplifting, as people casually strolled up to our booth to hear Master's words and converse with us. Colorful balloons and paper lanterns blew in the breeze, as children jumped on a trampoline inside an inflated red and yellow dragon near our booth, adding a joyful tone to the event.

All in all, the experience of Los Angeles disciples at the Family Fun Festival was highly enjoyable, and proved to be a positive way to advance Master's teachings in the local community.

Master's Video Seminar Blesses Koreatown

On Sunday, September 19th, 1999, the Los Angeles Center, in cooperation with disciples and residents from the Pusan, Seoul, and Youngdong Centers in Korea, worked on and successfully completed a project entitled "Master's Video Seminar." Prior to the project, a very large and well publicized Korean Cultural Festival took place in Los Angeles from September 16-19 1999.

We took advantage of the large crowds to promote the seminar, as thousands of Koreans attended this very popular outdoor event. In three days, more than 1,000 posters of Master and the Quan Yin Method were put up all over Korean neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and more than 10,000 flyers were distributed before and during the festival! During the wee hours of the night, we traveled to many large Korean shopping areas and taped up hundreds of beautiful posters bearing Master's noble portrait. In the morning, Koreatown was welcomed and blessed by Master's loving glance.

On the evening of Sunday, September 19th, we held the Master's Video Seminar presentation at Huntington Career College, located next to Koreatown in Los Angeles. One of the professors at this college is a disciple from the L.A. Center who helped with many of the details of the project. The college's director is a Korean Ph.D., who tries to practice spiritually and follow a vegetarian diet. He welcomed all of the disciples and allowed us to use the facilities at the college completely free of charge! A Los Angeles mayoral candidate, whose wife is Korean, also showed up for the lecture. In short, the Master's Video Seminar project in the Korean community was more successful than we had ever imagined. Even a week later, there were still more Korean persons seeking initiation. Now, the disciples at the Los Angeles Center have another huge task ahead of them. We all need to provide a firm foundation for our new Korean initiates, so that they will be well cared for during the early part of their practice of the Quan Yin Method!

 Report from Indiana, USA

Master's Love Pervades Indiana's Black Expo

[Indianapolis] Recently, the Indiana Center participated in the annual Black Expo, which attracts several hundred thousand people each year, with the majority of visitors and participants being African Americans. Many fellow practitioners from nearby Centers cheered and heartily supported our efforts, but barely had enough time to plan and get all the paper work, fliers etc. completed. Master arranged many things, down to the smallest details, to ensure a smooth and happy event. On each day of the Expo, which lasted three days, initiates took turns working while others meditated in a group at the Center according to schedule. Thus the project had both physical and spiritual support. Our omnipresent Master even sent three African-American initiates from Chicago, Illinois and one from Indianapolis to work at the booth. Many people stopped at our Quan Yin booth to take sample books, pamphlets, and other literature, and many asked to learn the Convenient Method, attend vegetarian cooking classes and receive free News magazines. All in all, the project was a great success!

Vegetarian Cooking Class

Quite a few people signed up for the cooking class at the Expo, but the contact person still had no idea what she should do to run the class. A couple of weeks later, an African-American initiate told the contact person that there was someone from Chicago, Illinois, who would be willing to go to the Indiana Center to conduct our vegetarian cooking class. To our surprise, this lady was also an African-American, a talented chef from a vegetarian restaurant in Chicago, a nutritionist, and a professional teacher with her own vegetarian cooking school! Moreover, her restaurant was the "most famous" vegetarian eating place in town.

God's miraculous arrangement touched our hearts deeply. We all know so well inside that the Expo and the cooking class were nothing but God's will, and that Master helped and guided us in each and every step to bring the message of Love and Peace to the world.