Report of the Chief Priest ‘s visit to Tarkwa District
17th – 18th March, 2018
The Chief Priest, Rev. Shindo Imafuku and Koto, Dr Odame Boamah arrived in Tarkwa on 17th of March. Reverend held leaders meeting before the all members meeting at 9:30 am on Sunday, 18th March, 2018.
Issues discussed include:
*Block meetings: Reverend touch on the importance of block meetings and he also encourage all block leaders to be present at all block leaders meeting at Oko ceremonies in the Temple. He said the block is an important unit of the district, without blocks there is no district, he stressed.
On the qualities of leadership, the Chief Priest gave the following guidelines:
- Leaders should not skip their daily gongyo no matter what.
- Leaders should be good examples.
- Leaders should not complain no matter the situation but rather follow the High Priest guidance and Chief Priest guidance.
All members meeting
The meeting started at 10:00 am with 1 hour shodai . The Chief Priest lecture was on the following topics:
1: The Law of Cause and Effect
2: Karma
3: The meaning of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo
4: The Gohonzon
5: The Purpose of faith and practice
After Rev.’s lecture, there was the question and answer section. Some of the questions were as follows:
- Should members participate in traditional family rituals?
- What should be our attitude when we visit other religious sites for the purposes of tourism?
In Koto’s encouragement, he urged member s not to consider block meetings as insignificant (not important) because of the number of attendance. But rather be mindful of the goal of the block meetings as is to promote itai doshin and the achievement of our shakubuku target. The shodai at the block meetings, also give people in our neighbourhoods, a chance to form an inverse relation with the mystic law by hearing the sound of Nam myoho renge kyo.
The meeting ended with evening gongyo. 18 members attended the meeting and three new members received gojukai.
