WDFD Part I - Kickoff : Apr-12

Little WDFD kickoff booklet for all my WDs ..

Every single of the 6-pages booklet - done with much pride!

STRANGELY, I was extremely excited and motivated to kickoff this year's WD formation day.  In fact I had this WDFD kickoff session with all my WDs immediately after April's zadankai, a week before the chapter kicked off with us district leaders!  I prepared this little booklet for each of my WD member to tell them of how we will go about our WDFD preparation.

Back to the "STRANGELY" part, I must say it all began in March this year as the sunshine auntys were preparing our P5 lion cubs for the P5 camp..  As I saw for myself once again how just 2 or 3 training sessions for a dance actually pulled and bonded the children much closer together, I began toying with the idea of doing the same for my WDs..

After confirmation that this year's WDFD will be of the same format as last year's, I began to explore with Hong to see if his schedule can somehow fit as without a dance instructor, I cannot carry out my idea at all!  I was damn thrilled when he agreed to help me out!!  *\(^_^)/*  This was to be my first concrete victory for my WDFD.

With a concrete plan to bond my WDs closer, I began to ask around how others engage their members for their WDFD preparations.  Plagiarizing from these Best-Practices ideas, I put together this little 6-pages booklet and a presentation for my kickoff with my district WD members.  Among the brilliant ideas gathered, I thought the best of the best has got to be getting all my members to play host for this WDFD meeting, and all preparation work become platforms for us to work together as a district to welcome our new friends whom we invite to join us in our WDFD celebratory meeting!! Another extremely brilliant one was for each of us to bring along a personal victory for this meeting.  "Bring a friend & bring a victory." (^_^)

I courageously set targets to achieve for this WDFD.  One of which was for Sharon to share her experience with my WD members during my WDFD.  Another was for all my WDs to participate in the dance performance.

Although I've been asking Sharon to share her wonderful journey of faith since the beginning of this year, I haven't been very successful because her hero had some concerns.  After some prayers, I mustered courage to ask Sharon again.  This time she was willing but my WDFD meeting might clash head-on with hers as she had juz been promoted to a district leader and her meeting timing was exactly the same as mine.  NOT giving up, I told her not to reject me so soon but to "let's chant for it to happen."  That was exactly what both of us did..  As I was toying with the idea of changing the date of my WDFD, Sharon confirmed that her WDFD would be held one week earlier than mine!!  Gosh, i was absolutely overjoyed and overwhelmed at the power of determination and daimoku!!  That was my second concrete victory for my WDFD.