Sikh Awareness in Auckland's Unitarian Church

[harjinder]

Source : http://www.sikhpride.com/prachar.htm Don't miss the link.It has some pictures of the Sikh Awareness Session.

Info on Event

Charanjit and Karamjit gave one hour presentation on Sikh faith in Unitarian church, Auckland. This was really a new learning experience for us. The feedback was very positive. All people who attended this interfaith meeting were under impression that Sikhs are Hindus or Muslims or mixture of both. But they really appreciated the way we represented the Sikh faith in the meeting.

We just concentrated on the Sikh principles, Basic principles of Guru Nanak Dev ji, Martyrdom of Guruteg Bahadur, Establishment of Khalsa Panth, other martyrs, A special presentation on effects of 9/11 on Sikhs in America and how they coped. After that half an hour of Question and Answer session. There were some questions on the turbans. We had a slide show presentation of different type of turbans which are being wore in the world. And how Sikhs are different. They had lot of questions. It was really interesting while answering their questions.

In the end the little girl with the Green top (see group photograph), specially thanked both of us and said ," That you

are very interesting people and all this show was excellent.".

This is a sewa we must do and should not miss this opportunity to represent Sikh faith in interfaith meetings. I had some of the slideshows with me and can be used. Developing more now "Understanding Sikhism".

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Charanjit Singh :e:

[S1ngh]

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