Utsava Seva(Festival Administration Sponsorship)

Contribute towards the festival expenses in the following categories:

1) Festival Administrative Cost
2) Stadium Booking
3) Tentage
4) Barricades
5) Waste disposal services
6) Transportations and logistics
7) T-Shirt for event
8) Sercuriy services
9) Photography and Videography services
10) Sound system
11) Fund Raising Bazaar stalls

Prasadam Seva(Sanctified Vegetarian Food Distribution Sponsorship)

Other than the distribution of the holy names of Krishna and the supreme spiritual knowledge contained in the Vedic literatures, our other significant contribution to the society is the distribution of Prasadam — sanctified nutritious vegetarian food. By partaking of Prasadam, one’s material hunger is certainly satisfied but more importantly, one also purifies one’s existence. As the adage goes, you are what you eat. When one eats foodstuff which is offered first to Lord Krishna, one eats pure, sinless or karma-free food and such action eventually manifests in one’s consciousness, behavior and life.Everybody needs it — poor and rich.

Your contribution will support the Prasadam distribution both:

On the event day, which itself is gargantuan (10-course meal for 15,000 people, totally free).
Our perennial distribution to the needy and less-fortunate — to low-income families, welfare homes and on-premise feeding program to the tune of about 1,500 meals a week and expanding, provided the facilities and finance.

For more info on our free food distribution, please go to http://skmwelfare.org/

DONATIONS WILL BE USED FOR THE FOLLOWING SERVICES

Transportation of old folks to stadium
Food distribution
Goody bags
Free mineral water for attendees
Provisions and Groceries
Rental and purchase of cooking facilities and equipments
Event cutleries
Purchasing Vegetables
Making of Sweets
Perennial daily free food distribution service

Arca Vigraha Seva

The Supreme Lord is fully satisfied in Himself and does not requireour worship, neither can we adequately serve Him. But when we offer something to Him out of love, we shall be benefited. His ever-blissful spiritual form is beyond the reach of our blunt material senses. But out of His sheer mercy, the infinite Lord agrees to take on a Deity form
which we can see and touch just in order to purify us by giving us a chance to worship Him by offering Him various paraphernalia.

Here is an opportunity for you to render devotional service to the Deities Sri Jagannath, Sri Baladev and Sri Subhadra.

Your generous donations will be utilized for the following services

1) Deity dress and ornaments
2) Garlands for deities
3) Chariot altar
4) Deity’s umbrella
5) Puja items
6) Re-painting of Deities
7) Vedic exhibition of 20ft tall deities, Sri Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra & Gaura Nitai balloons and dioramas
8) Milk sponsorship
9) Flower sponsorship
10) Fruit Sponsorship

Ratha Seva

The main ritual in the celebration of Ratha Yatra is the pulling of the chariots to the accompaniment of kirtana (congregational chanting of the Lord’s holy names). Pulling of the Lord’s chariots is very auspicious and invokes unbounded blessings of Lord Jagannatha. It is stated in Skanda Purana that the sanctity of the festival is such that just touching the chariot or even the ropes with which the chariots are pulled is considered enough to confer abundant auspiciousness and immense blessings to the effect that one’s place in the abode of the Lord is guaranteed.

Your generous donations will used for the following services

1) Chariot maintenance
2) Chariot lightings
3) Painting of Chariot
4) Garlands decorations
5) Balloon decorations

Jagannatha Seva

Get the blessing of The Lord of the Universe with an assortment of auspicious items on the festival day. Each Jagannatha offering is going to be sponsored by one person or family and the offering costs $108. You will be given a goody bag the fruit offering along with Maha-Prasadam and a special gift as a testimony for your seva on the day of the Ratha Yatra event. All proceeds from the donations will go to organizing the festival and free food distribution.

Balaram Seva

Book an offering of fruits to the Lord of the Universe on the festival day.

Once the payment is successful, a coupon acknowledging the same will be mailed to you and you will also get SMS notifications regarding the offering and the festival. Each fruit offering can be sponsored only by one person or family @ $51. You will be able to make an offering on the event day and you will be given a goody bag with the fruit offering along with Maha-Prasadam and a special gift as a testimony for your seva. All proceeds from the donations will go to organizing the festival and free food distribution. In case you cannot attend the festival, we can do the offering on your behalf on the event day and deliver the Prasadam at your doorstep after the festival. But we strongly encourage you to come and experience the bliss of the festival.