[Histemple] Samarpan January 2014 edition

Thu Jan 16 09:07:19 MST 2014

To read more, please click on this link
*http://www.histemplemn.org/**samarpan/Samarpan.pdf* 
<http://www.histemplemn.org/samarpan/Samarpan.pdf>

*Jan-Feb 2014*

	Dear Community Members, As we begin another new year, I look back on my 
first year as President of the Hindu Samaj Temple. We have had some 
exciting times and have come a long way. Buying the land for the New 
Temple was a major accomplishment and the Bhoomi (Land) Pooja was a 
major success in introducing it to the community. I would like to thank 
the overwhelming support we have had in raising funds towards building 
the New Temple. We are nearing the goal of $250,000 for this year and I 
continue to welcome any support both in time and kind towards achieving 
our goal of a New Temple. Along with Rochester Vidhalaya, we 
participated in Rochesterfest for the first time and this was a fun and 
rewarding experience. Sumathi Jayakumar, who leads the Religious 
committee, did a phenomenal job of organizing the two-day Bhoomi Pooja. 
Asha Jeevan, as Cultural Program Coordinator, and Prasaad Ayyanar, as 
the Food Committee Coordinator, have had some new and exciting learning 
experiences. Ajay Singh, Senthil Palaniappan and Somashekar Govindaraj 
lead the IT team and are in the process of revamping the website to add 
additional content and make it more informational. We are also trying to 
update the present Temple building with help of the community with 
Sridhar taking the lead on this initiative. We have formed a finance 
team with Diganta Borgohain, Sasi Venkat, and Mukesh Bhatia as members 
in preparation for the major work we anticipate with the New Temple. 
Suresh Chari is leading the efforts in achieving our goal of a New 
Temple both in fundraising and in getting the plans ready. I would like 
to thank the Board in their devotion to the cause and their hard work. 
Once again, I would like to thank the community at large for their 
unwavering support and look forward to their continued participation in 
working towards the goal of a New Temple. Thank you. WISHING YOU ALL A 
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Sincerely, Santhi Subramaniam. 	

*Editor’s Note *    By /Rajani Sohni/

Greetings to all our readers!

Wishing all our readers a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!

In 2013, we saw an increase in the number of visitors to the temple, 
along with improvements and initiatives in all Temple sponsored 
activities. We would like to thank all the devotees, volunteers, and our 
priest, Hari Krishna Ji, for the continued support and dedication.

The /Samarpan/Editorial Board is seeking articles for publication in our 
newsletter.  We welcome contributions from adults as well as children.  
You are invited to write on any topic related to Mythology, History, 
Spirituality, or the Arts of India, with the goal of promoting Indian 
Heritage and Culture.  The articles must be original, must be 1000 words 
or less, and should have references to any material borrowed from other 
sources.

In addition, we invite the community youth to be part of our events 
reporting team - to write about events and news within our community.

Please send your articles to editors at histemple.org 
<mailto:editors at histemple.org>. Our next newsletter will be published in 
March.  To be considered for publication in the March issue, please 
submit your articles by March 1^st , 2014.

Thank you to all our contributors in 2013 – you made the publication of 
/Samarpan/possible.

We are eager to hear from you. If you have any feedback, please send an 
email to: editors at histemplemn.org <mailto:editors at histemplemn.org>.

Looking forward to another great year and once again wishing everyone a 
Very Happy 2014 from the Samarpan Team!

/Unni krishnan//
//Nisha Kurup
Anantha Vijay Raghavan Santhanam
Rajani Sohni/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0002.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 24905 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0020.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 7157 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0021.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 413 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0022.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 103827 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0023.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 424 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0024.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1225 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0025.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 395 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0026.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 336 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0027.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 335 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0028.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3770 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://histemplemn.org/pipermail/histemple_histemplemn.org/attachments/20140116/329ef9ac/attachment-0029.jpe>