We sincerely invite Buddhists to chant, offer alms food, practice meditation, and listening to preaching as the Buddhist way of celebration of New Year's Eve - Welcome to New Year 2010. These meritorious deeds will help increase the power of merit to promote your personal life, family, and professional path. Certainly, through the power of merit you will be always healthy, emotionally comfortable, fortunate, rich, and secured. The event is scheduled on January 3, 2010 as follows:

December 31, 2009

4.00 pm - Undertaking the refuges and precepts

18:00 pm - Evening chanting / Meditation practice

- Chanting to welcome the New Year

12:30 am - Bedtime

January 1-2, 2010

06.00 am - Morning chanting / Meditation practice

07.00 am - Breakfast

08.30 am - 10.30 am - Meditation practice

11.00 am  - Offering alms food / Dining

1.00 pm - 6.00 pm - Meditation practice

6.00 pm - Evening chanting

7.00 pm - 10.00 pm - Meditation practice

10.00 pm - Bedtime

January 3, 2010

06.00 am  - Morning chanting / Meditation practice

07.00 am - Breakfast

08.30 am - 10.00 pm - Meditation practice

10:00 am - Congregation of participants

10:30 am - Prayer of lay devotees / Undertaking the refuges and precepts

11.00 am  - Offering alms food / Dining

1.00 pm - Listening to preaching / Pouring water for merit-sharing

- Sprinkling the holy water for blessing / End of ceremony

Host: Wat Rattanavanaram Tel. 803-469-2494

Location of Event: 2275 Thomas Sumter Hwy., Sumter, SC 29153

For those who wish to join the merits and donate money in contribution to the temple's monthly expense, please send check or money order payable to Wat Rattanavanaram. Thank you for your constant support to our temple ever since. Please also join our meditation group everyday from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Additionally, you may request for meditation session upon your convenient time.