2012 is the 30th Anniversary of our Hondo. We will be celebrating with a time capsule that was part of our 85th Anniversary commemoration. Please feel free to contribute anything about our temple and the people it was built for. It could be remembrances or actual journals, videos on DVD, photographs, etc. We will close the time capsule at this celebration and open it at our Centennial, which will take place 15 years later. Our hondo was dedicated in August 1982 after fires that destroyed the previous hondo.
This commemoration will coincide with Gardena hosting the 2012 Southern District Conference. I am looking for people to volunteer for the steering committee. One of the first things we need to do is to arrange for a location and select a theme.
The komon and sodanyaku hope that we can hire another minister who is a native English speaker. The board did approve establishing a Minister Scholarship Program that will help us with getting another minister in the future. The board has a few more procedures to approve before we can fully implement this.
In the meantime, we will start seeing guest ministers for the English sermons at least twice a month and the religious department will also be looking for lay speakers who can speak in English. We do have a volunteer who looks after Rev. Shindo and helps with pronunciation. If others can help please let me know.
We have received items in the suggestion box, and we are doing our best to respond to the needs.
Our October group to Japan will meet soon. Kintetsu is finalizing the preparations for the May group’s visit, and then we will be scheduling meetings for our tour. Please stay tuned. Anyone interested in traveling to Japan in October for the 750th Memorial Service for Shinran in Kyoto, please contact me.
In Gassho,
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I must be getting older. I can't keep up with all changes at GBC. Until you get an English speaking minister, it would be nice to hear a Church member, Dharma School, or college student submit articles to the Megumi.
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