Because there is no Chinese Embassy or Consulate within 1500 miles, Central Florida Falun Gong practitioners had to find alternative ways to participate in the three-day worldwide Vigil to Stop the Torture and Murder.

There was neither time nor money to make elaborate plans, but Central Florida practitioners felt that this vigil was an important opportunity to join our hearts and our energies with practitioners worldwide to clarify the truth and help stop the persecution of Mainland Chinese practitioners.

On Saturday morning, a group of Orlando practitioners traveled to the beachfront city of Daytona to join practitioners there for exercise class, hongfa, and group study. In the evening, everyone met on the public beachfront boardwalk to demonstrate the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts, and distribute information about Falun Gong.

It was too windy to light candles, but the peaceful energy of the exercising practitioners attracted passers-by. There was not much foot traffic, but almost every person who walked by not only took a flyer but also stayed to talk and learn about the persecution. Everyone who stopped was genuinely touched by the plight of the Chinese practitioners and the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance.

Sunday night, Orlando practitioners gathered in a popular downtown public park to continue our efforts. Practitioners set up posters about the persecution, laid out flyers, and sat behind a row of candles, sending out righteous thoughts and taking turns clarifying the truth to the people who passed by. As on the night before, there were not a lot of people but every person who did pass by seemed to have a strong predestined relationship with the Fa. Almost every person who walked by stayed for several minutes to discuss Falun Gong and the persecution. Practitioners felt that because they were acting in concert with practitioners around the world, the righteous energy developed by the whole body of Dafa dispelled all interference and attracted all the right people, so that even if our presentation was simple and our exposure limited, our efforts were still tremendously effective.

The effect of the Fa grows as the Fa approaches the human world and the interference weakens. Many of the people that we talk to now are Lords and Kings of paradises who desperately want to get Dafa. Central Florida practitioners were deeply moved to see so many of these beings get their chance at a glorious future, and to see so clearly the benevolent power of Dafa.