What’s Your Chapter Doing Toward the July Youth Discussion Meetings?

Young Men’s Leader: Bobby Torandaz
Young Women’s Leader: Lisa McMillan
Men’s Leader: Matthew Thompson
Women’s Leader: Kazuyo Miyagi

Goal: 64 youth
To set our goal, we took into consideration our highest discussion meeting youth attendance from last year, as well as our youth attendance from the 50,000 Lions of Justice Festival.

Our team exchanges text messages every morning, sharing our determinations and reporting updates after we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for one hour from our own homes. The women and men are confi rming youth and their transportation. We are determined to fulfill our mission and respond to SGI President Ikeda’s expectations for us to raise capable successors in America!

Santa Cruz Chapter, Santa Cruz, Calif.

Young Men’s Leader: Christopher Lang
Men’s Leader: Don English
Women’s Leader: Carolyn Callander

Goal: 40 youth
Our chapter has many students who are going home over the summer, so we will ensure that they can attend their youth discussion meetings wherever they are! Because our team is spread out geographically, we are uniting through prayer from our homes. We’ve started reviewing our youth participant list from the 50,000 Lions of Justice Festival and setting up visits. Since we don’t have a chapter young women’s leader at the moment, we’ve asked for support from the region young women’s leaders.

The theme of the July Youth Discussion Meetings—“Connecting Beyond the Screen: Overcoming Barriers Through Friendship”—has motivated us to fight even harder for the happiness of our youth!