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Food Festival with Friends from the World
Dae Mo Nim
August 9, 2007
Dining Hall, Chungseong Wanglim Palace (Heavenly Palace), August 9, 2007.
In the afternoon of August 9, the 'Food Festival with Friends from the World' was held in the Dining Hall of Cheonseong Wanglim Palace (Heavenly Palace). Around 1,300 members from the 117th Chung Pyung 40-Day Workshop, 37th Chung Pyung 40-Day Special Workshop for Blessed Wives, 116th Chung Pyung 40-Day Special Workshop for International 2nd Generation, Japan Seunghwa Chung Pyung 14-Day Special Workshop, and the Korea Seunghwa Chung Pyung 14-Day Special Workshop attended this festival with Dae Mo Nim.
Every year, this Food Festival is held here in Chung Pyung to commemorate the unification of various nationalities of members attending the Chung Pyung Workshops. For western food, hamburger, pizza, and chicken were prepared. For Japanese food, soba (Japanese noodles) and curry rice, for Korean food, chajyam noodle was prepared.
After the opening remarks by Rev. Yeong-ho Ha, President of Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center, the members were served with the various foods. The dining hall was filled up with members and Dae Mo Nim sat in the middle eating with the members.
After the serving, there was entertainment where performance from Korea, Japan and International was given. The first group was Korean students who performed song and dance. Then the Japanese Junior STF came up on the stage and sang two powerful songs that brought up the spirit of the crowd. From the international team, 4 members from France performed a classical music. Following that, there was a band performance, 'Recycle' and all the 2nd generation from different backgrounds united as one and danced through their songs.
Before the end, Lecturer In-pyo Moon, sang two songs as a representative of Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center. The 'Food Festival with Friends from the World' ended with 3 cheers of Eok-manse after a group singing with Dae Mo Nim.