Portsmouth (NH), Jan. 29, 2000 -- Monthly 1-day Falun Dafa English-speaking group study & practice on Jan. 29 benefited western practitioners a lot.

About 25 practitioners from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island attended the monthly 1-day English-speaking group study &practice on January 29 in Portsmouth Community Campus.

The activity started with practicing the five sets of exercises at 7:00in the morning. Following was group study and discussion. We read MasterLis book ESSENTIALS FOR FURTHER ADVANCES and his new articles fromDec.17, 1998 to July 22, 1999. We also shared our experiences of how we attained Falun Dafa. Everyone had been moved by others stories.

In the evening, we shared some experience articles of Chinese practitioners in mainland China , we were all deeply moved by their pure hearts and their determination to Dafa. Their spirit encouraged attendees to look at our inner self, and cultivate us more diligently in the future.

We discussed how to promote Dafa in our area. The instructors and new practitioners exchanged their ideas on how to give assistance to newcomers and how to let more people know Dafa. We got better understanding on how to promote Dafa to Westerners. We realized that monthly group meeting helps us to exchange the experiences and ideas, to promote the mutual understanding and to form a better English-speaking cultivation and promoting environment.

We already have had this kind of monthly 1-day or 2-dayEnglish-speakinggroup study & practice about 1 year. More and more practitioners from different states come to participate in this monthly activity. It helps a lot for English-speaking practitioners.