Christchurch FGS Celebrates Chinese New Year’s Eve

In order to show appreciation to the Fo Guang Shan committee members, youth group and volunteers’ contribution to the Temple, they were invited to a committee/volunteer Chinese New Year’s Eve celebration dinner on the evening of 2nd February. Venerable Juexi passed on the thoughts of thanks from the Abbess to everyone that evening thanking them all for their teamwork, care and hard work throughout the year to help FGS South Island New Zealand become what it is today and allowing “Humanistic Buddhism” to give strength and peace to the minds of everyone in Christchurch.

Being served with scrumptious evening meal that night, everyone also got to enjoy performances organised by each invited group: BLIA Directors presented their duet of “The Moon Represents My Heart”, the reception group brought their extravagant dance performance, and the YAD group performed their choreographed version of “There’s a solution when there’s Buddhism” and songs with hand gestures; the administration also brought their singing performance of “Pilgrimage” that evening. Along with the performances, there were also spot prize lucky draws to bring more atmospheres to the dinner. The venerable also expressed her appreciation in the end for everyone’s attendance that evening, hoping that the evening have raised everyone’s spirit as they enter into the new year and looks forward to a new year with more team work and cooperation. Everyone was thankful for the evening celebration organised for them and promised to be even more hardworking together with FGS for the coming year.