{"id":5177,"date":"2022-05-08T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2022-05-08T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:49:47","slug":"138-may-9-2022-the-dera-opens-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/2022\/05\/08\/138-may-9-2022-the-dera-opens-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"#138  &#8211; May 9, 2022 &#8212;  The Dera Opens for the Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dear Friends,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ishwar\u2019s dera is open for seva!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, volunteers arrived to begin spring preparations for a busy year of activities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Planting of <b class=\"\">Master\u2019s Prashad Garden<\/b> is planned for <b class=\"\">Memorial Day Weekend (May 28-30, 2022).<\/b> &nbsp;All are welcome, and satsangis are invited to come early and stay late.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As an added bonus, ISHA Chairman, Jagannath Kerai, will be live-streaming satsang from the dera on May 28.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you would like to offer seva to Ishwar for his tribute to his Great Master Sawan Singh, please email your name and travel schedule to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:dera.seva@ishanews.org\">dera.seva@ishanews.org<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Some garden photos from a few days ago &#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Dera Dumpster delivers tons of extraordinary black organic compost from a local farm.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"37BE6B92-1C24-4CF0-A99B-7C27B922E7C6\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1-Dera-2022-garden.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"DF821607-F4C5-4359-8E09-F825F6BD6689\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2-Dera-2022-garden-1.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dera tractor spreads and smoothes the compost.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"16B00497-B735-442C-BB48-08C18074B307\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3-Dera-2022-garden-4.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Garden elves till the compost into the garden soil, in preparation for planting on Memorial Day Weekend.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"493035BF-A8A8-439C-A12B-9456C605862A\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/4-Dera-2022-garden-3.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, the dera greenhouse is brimming with ravishing seedlings that will soon be big enough to plant.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"3E63E186-E3CA-4F50-9A89-31BE64E56AE4\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5-Dera-2022-garden.jpeg\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We hope to see you there soon!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b class=\"\">Don\u2019t forget<\/b><span class=\"\">&nbsp;to check out the new dera website at<\/span><span class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/dera.ishanews.org\">https:\/\/dera.ishanews.org<\/a>&nbsp;to learn more about ISHA\u2019s latest plans for building Ishwar\u2019s Meeting Hall.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;\">\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any questions related to Ishwar\u2019s dera can be directed to Jagannath at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:chairman@ishanews.org\">chairman@ishanews.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With warmest regards,<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paul Bauer<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ISHA Dera Building Committee<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"><span class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, &nbsp; Ishwar\u2019s dera is open for seva! &nbsp; Last week, volunteers arrived to begin spring preparations for a busy year of activities. &nbsp; Planting of Master\u2019s Prashad Garden is planned for Memorial Day Weekend (May 28-30, 2022). &nbsp;All are welcome, and satsangis are invited to come early and stay late. &nbsp; As an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-construction-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ishanews.org\/ishwarsprojects2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}