One of the implications or complications of the expansion to the new facility, is the issue of the Krishna Kids Club - our program for children on Sundays. We have this program for a number of reasons:

1. To enable the teaching to go on in the main space without the interruption of children in the audience
2. To enable people to come to hear, even when they have children they are responsible for
3. To enable us to give the children an appropriate experience of Krishna Consciousness, targeted to their needs
4. To encourage children to drag their parents along

It has actually become a very popular program, and part of the drawcard for many parents. I know that for many months Param or I would walk the streets outside with Prahlad during the teaching. Once we got the Loft facility next door to Govinda’s restaurant, where the Sunday feast is held, we had a space to go with Prahlad during the program, and we knew there were many others in the same boat as us. So we launched the Krishna Kids Club program under the leadership of Channell.

Now there are up to 20 kids there each week. People are concerned about the future of this program now that we are moving out of the Loft space to the new facility.

I don’t have all the answers to everything right now, but we’re committed to this program in the long term. Let’s see what Krishna arranges in the near term. I will probably need to speak about this at the Sunday Feast - perhaps we need more of a committment on the part of parents. Often we don’t fully appreciate something until it is gone.