Creating a Compassionate and Vegetarian Global Village

Toronto, Canada

Distributing the Alternative Living flyers is an on-going project in the Toronto Center. By coordinating work with the other Centers in the country, and through the efforts of many enthusiastic, sincere and loving sisters and brothers, we are happy and encouraged to learn that the flyers have reached almost all of the provinces in Canada.

In September, Golden Year 3 (2006), the Toronto center printed 106,000 more flyers. Through Open & Save Company, 6,495 flyers were mailed to the households of North West Territories, 13,840 to the households of Yukon Territory and 17,320 to the households of Nunavut Territory. Disciples also organized in teams and distributed 4,500 flyers in Waterloo, 3,500 in Barrie, 3,000 in Cambridge, 2,500 in Guelph, 1,700 in Port Hope and 1,000 in Cobourg.

The flyers were generally very well received. A sister, while giving out the flyers to a household in Barrie, was welcomed in the front yard by the dog of that household. The dog kept running around her in circles with its waggling tail, and it was not until its keeper received a flyer from the sister, that she contentedly followed her keeper back to the house. The sister, who was normally a bit afraid of dogs, was very touched by this incidence.

When the sister continued delivering the flyers, she met a woman walking to a bus stop with her child to meet her husband coming home from work. After reading the message on the flyer, the woman praised the sister for doing a noble job. She immediately volunteered to help us to deliver the flyers after meeting her husband. She then got some flyers from the sister and asked that the sister leave the street she specified for her to distribute afterwards. A little later, when the sister walked pass that street, she was deeply touched by the sight of the woman delivering flyers to each household on the street and every person she met, letting her husband and child follow behind her.

Initiates also took the opportunity to deliver the flyers at the Annual Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto. A large number of the flyers were put together with Master’s pamphlets for the then upcoming seminar on September 24 and were given out. The seminar was very successful. A high percentage of the attendees stayed behind to learn the Convenient Method. When an attendee approached the registration desk and was asked whether she would like to learn the Convenient Method, she said: “I would like to learn the full method.”

The Alternative Living flyer distribution project will continue, to fulfill our aim that one day every one in Canada will receive a copy of the flyer, as well as our wish that the message within will be conveyed.

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