On Sunday, April 23, Golden Year3 (2006), the 17th annual Earth Day Fair was held at the world famous Balboa Park in San Diego. Our Association’s booth displayed Master’s beautiful pictures, Alternative Living posters and banners, as well as a television playing Master’s lectures. For a major event like Earth Day, with an expected attendance of 60,000 people, it seemed a very good time to share the message of Alternative Living.

For the distribution, we thought we would try something new. So we had semi-opaque bags printed with “Alternative Living” on the outside. Inside was an Alternative Living flyer, some full-color recipes and a vegan wisdom cookie. Some of us started the day with a full load of Alternative Living bags in our arms, posting ourselves at different locations to cover areas where people might have missed coming by our booth.

The bags disappeared quickly, and people loved them. We also handed out free balloons with the Alternative Living message imprinted on them. At about 11 o’clock in the morning, an Earth Day parade took place. Interestingly, many people marching in the parade were carrying and waving the Alternative Living balloons!

At the booth, we smiled at people coming by and greeted them, saying “Vegetarian recipes,” before handing them the bag. We noticed that many times when we said it out loud, people who had already passed by our booth changed their minds and turned around to pick up the bags. As time went on, one brother added another line to make it more interesting: “Be a vegetarian, save the world!” The slogan seemed to help draw some people’s indecisive mindset toward vegetarianism.

Altogether that day, we distributed 6,000 flyers at the Fair. Almost everyone we met was happy to receive Master’s message of love for all beings. It was a fun and successful day, thanks to Master’s love and blessings for the world!