Appeal August 2003: Defeat the heat of summer

Ryozo Matsumoto, Chairman of CS-Wellness Committee

In this August we have, like the usual year, the wellness regular meeting, of which the main attraction is "the promenade on Fuji": we stroll slowly near Shin-Gogome of Gotenba-guchi at Mt. Fuji Sunday morning. Because we stay overnight at the Tozanso cottage of YMCA, the plenty of leeway in the time makes the various programs: in Saturday(the first day), after the regular meeting, we study to understand YMCA; in night, we do the campfire which remind us of our time of boys and girls; before going to bed, we do the friendship meeting, taking a glass in hand; in Sunday(the second day) early morning, we continue our programs with the walking and the outdoor worship; and we end them with "the promenade on Fuji" of which I have already told.
I write this manuscript on July 18th. Till today, we have already got 28 attendees (Y's Men, Y's Menettes and Y'slings). I had been afraid that we would get very small number of attendees in the precious overnight regular meeting. But it has ended in the groundless fear and I am relieved.
The subject of the activity in this year of the president Mr. Tanaka is "Learn well, enjoy well and serve well". Then we made this plan to practice it.
I hope that we get a vitality of our service activity in the association, made of better learning and better pleasure, while we defeat the heat of summer, train our body in the Tozanso cottage where it is a little cool.