Hi all and especially friends in the media,

Please help spread the word below as quickly as possible and try your best to be
there.

Background information, please visit the following links:

.. Pemuda Umno challenging Hindu Temple
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InHarmony/message/756

.. Q&A on Tambak Paya Temple
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InHarmony/message/757


Please help forward on. Here's the text of the invitation:

KUIL ARULMIGA SRI MAHA PERIACHIAMMAN


ACARA MESRA RAKYAT
SUNDAY, 15th July 2007, 8.00AM
WE LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AND CELEBRATE

THE MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE

THE RICHNESS OF A MULTI RACIAL AND CULTURAL SOCIETY

THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN ONES OWN UNIQUE WAY

THE BUILDING OF BRIDGES

THE NURTURING OF COMMUNITIES
50 years of Merdeka

Jointly hosted by:

Gurukkal Shree Periasamy Yusof bin Abdullah
Priest Ketua Bahagian
Kuil Sri Maha Periachiamman PKR, Bukit Katil

LOCATION: Lot 1344-2, Jln Anggerik, Kg Tambak Paya, Ayer Molek, 75460 MELAKA

A DACC Associates Project - Developing Active Collaborative Communities



From: InHarmony@yahoogroups.com [mailto:InHarmony@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Harold Gomez
Sent: 14 July 2007 6:47 AM
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Cc: Yusof Abdullah PKR
Subject: [InHarmony] A New God Inspired Transformation in Malaysia

Dear All,

I ask for your indulgence and patience with the style I chose to write this
message. In this way, you will allow me to dig deep into my intentions for
standing up for this temple and the spirit with which my company, DACC
Associates, set up the Unit called "Nation Building" in April 2006.

INVITATION
Firstly let me invite you and all others in your network to join us in a 'Acara
Mesra Rakyat' - a gathering at the temple premises to pray, mingle and celebrate
with Malaysians of all faiths, colour and creed. Please see attached
announcement and forward to all you can reach. It will be on at 8am, 15th July
2007 at the Periachi Amman temple in Tambak Raya, Ayer Molek, Melaka.
The prayers which will start as early as 7am, will end around 8.20am. This will
be followed by short welcome speeches by the co-hosts, En Yusof Abdullah,
Gurukkal Shri Periasamy and an officer from the National Unity Department, Mr
N.S. Maniam.
Then, we will allow the visitors to mingle, share a common breakfast and NOT
talk about problems, but instead enjoy the richness and diversity of their
new-found friends.
At 9am we are calling for a press conference and then round up the day's event
officially.
So, please help me and invite all and sundry as well as the local and foreign
media - I will need that help badly.
I chose to make a PKR Division Head my co-host because,they rallied behind me
when others were hesitant.
Additionally, Yusof believes he can draw the diverse population of our country
for this event because of his party's support for a multi-religious,
multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Malaysia.

THE BEGINNING
Actually the idea for an event of this nature started rather clumsily. Our
Gurukkal wanted to have special prayers on the 15th of July 2007. My friends and
I wanted to form a human chain, made of all ethnic groups. Yusof thought of a
press conference.
Since Yusof and his team were with us from the time we asked for help, I decided
that he should become the co-host with our Gurukkal for this event.
On consulting some of my friends, I realized that this 'almost disastrous' chain
of events provoked by Pemuda Umno could actually be turned into a blessing for
our country.
I am a strong believer in the chinese saying - "Where there is danger, there is
opportunity"
Hence, my next strategy. As I write this, my new friend Yusof, is hearing it for
the first time !!
With Yusof's help, I would like to turn the Bukit Katil Parliamentary
Constituency, from a hot bed of ethnic tension, to a model of community
integration. For this we will invite the Ministry of Azalina Othman, Sharizat
Jalil, Dr Maximus Ongkili, Prime Minister's department and whoever else who will
put aside partisan politics, ethnic and parochial chauvinism, party allegiance,
etc and work with us for nation-building.
With Yusof and the Gurukkal's help we should hold the next "Acara Mesra Rakyat"
in a surau/mosque, followed by a church, a Gurdwara, a Buddhist temple, any
spiritual movement, etc and later on move to community centres and residential
neighbourhoods, holding joint prayers, tele-matches.the works.
How about that??
When I stop to think, I find God's plans mind blowing ..WOW!!

Enough for now, but the whole idea is to "Develop Active Collaborative
Communties".

I will get back with more after I discuss with Yusof and other key people.

DACC Associates
This company formed a Unit called "Nation Building" in April 2006 after seeing
the traumatic effects of tension and conflicts on the rise in Malaysia. My
directors agreed that that our consultants and I will do community work using
the skills and talents we have, to build bridges, heal emotional and
psychological wounds, and nurture Malaysian people as a nation.
We really did not care whether we got paid for it or not - we felt that we need
to make this contribution for Malaysia's future.

So, there you go !!


Best Wishes

Harold Gomez

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