Sai Centre: Cooksville
SSE Graduation Ceremony – SSSBC of Cooksvile
SSE Graduation Ceremony – SSSBC of Cooksvile
Sai Mask – Hands that Stitch
The success of the Mask project of the previous month was an incentive for the Ladies Wing of Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Cooksville to continue the Mask stitching project for another month (May 2020). The project was completed with the cooperation of the Youth and Service Wings.
Sai Mask – Hands that Stitch
The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it despair and uncertainty; however, in true Sai tradition the Ladies Wing decided to undertake a significant service project. Although a lot of activities had come to a halt and there was no opportunity to meet and discuss, the Ladies Wing was able to complete this service of stitching face masks for the East Toronto community by coordinating with skilled ladies and other devotees via phone, Skype and email.
‘Annadhanam’- Seva Food Bank Drive
Mississauga, in the Greater Toronto Area. Around 900 families depend on this food bank every month and this number drastically increased during the pandemic as a lot of people had been laid off their jobs. It was the Ladies wing who proposed this initiative; however, there was a lot of coordinated support from all the wings during the coordinators meeting. The idea of picking the items from the members’ houses on specified Saturdays came up during the meeting. Once the plan was agreed upon, a broadcast email was sent out to all the members to take part in our first ‘Food Bank Seva – via pick up’. The email included the hand washing, hygiene guidelines and informational poster which had items the Food bank needed with recommended guidelines for volunteers. A spreadsheet was prepared to help the teams in having a record of names and addresses. Tremendous support and enthusiasm marked this initiative. The Seva and the Ladies Wing coordinated to pick up the food items from the members’ homes. Many members who were not able to personally buy the food items donated money to the service coordinator. The food items were picked were weighed after the first and second pick up. The first Saturday pick was 550 pounds and the second pick up came to 40 pounds. which was later dropped off by the coordinators of the Ladies wing and the Seva Wing to the Food Bank location at Slough Street, Mississauga. The Cooksville Sai Centre’s “Food Bank Seva-via pick up” is a humble offering towards Aradhana Day Mahotsavam.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Cooksville – Annual Centre Picnic
With Swami’s grace, the Cooksville Sai Center has been hosting a yearly event, a picnic to facilitate a coming together of all members.
Father’s Day Celebrations @ Cooksville Sai Centre
In Canada, we have an opportunity to greet and treat our Fathers on Father’s Day. Every year in June we make it a point to celebrate this with all the fathers in the neighbourhood and all the members of the Sai family and friends. This year it was on Sunday June 16th, 2019 between 10 am to 12 noon at the Cooksville Sai Centre.
“Melody of Divine Love” – Musical program for Senior’s Home
March is a celebration of green and yellow, so we had the children wear green and yellow for St. Patrick’s day. We chanted opening prayers which was followed by a Ganesh bhajan called Gauri Ganesh sung by the youngest children of the group. Next a bhajan called The Lord gave the World was sung. This bhajan reminds us to be grateful to the Lord for the gift of this beautiful world.
Aradhana Mahotsavam at Cooksville Sai Centre
Aradhana Mahotsavam for the year 2019 was commemorated by the Cooksville Sai Centre on Wednesday April 24th day, a day when our beloved Bhagavan left His physical form and became omnipresent.
Sharing, Caring & Knitting for God organized by the Ladies Wing
Swami has taught us all the importance of “Love all Serve all” and Swami has often said that service (Manav Seva) is service to God (Madhava Seva). In support of Swami’s mission, on the 19th of May 2018, the Ladies wing initiated a Sadhana called “Sharing, Caring and Knitting HIS Love Together”. The goal of this Sadhana was to serve the less fortunate ones through knitting needy items while engaging in Swami’s namasmarana.
“Melody of Divine Love” – Musical program for Senior’s Home
Our monthly performance for the residents at the Erin Meadow retirement home was on October 28, 2018. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Navaratri with the residents. The evening started with a small introduction to the significance of “Thanksgiving”. We elaborated on the importance of “giving thanks” and continued with an opening prayer.