BAPS LA - Announcements

Please join for the FINAL musical symphony by our BAPS Bal Mandal at 8:15PM at the Expressions Stage in the Turf!

Please make your way in front of the Haveli for the flag program now!

Jay Swaminarayan. Dear BAPS Family - please join us at 11am at Independence Plaza in front of the Haveli for a special ceremony!

One final light show at 9:30pm! If you haven’t seen it - please join us!

🌍🏏Pujya Santos Offer Prayers and Perform Auspicious Pujan at LA Knight Riders Ground in Southern California Jai Swaminarayan, With the blessings of Shri Akshar Purushottam Maharaj and Param Pujya Mahant Swami Maharaj, Pujya Santos performed an auspicious pujan at the new Los Angeles Knight Riders cricket ground ahead of the team’s first match of the season. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Venky Mysore, CEO of Red Chillies Entertainment. As Los Angeles prepares to host cricket at the 2028 Olympic Games, this moment reflects our timeless tradition of beginning every endeavor with prayer, gratitude, and unity. 🎥 Watch the reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaRFj2Kou9h/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Please like, comment, and share the post so more people can celebrate this special milestone and the positive contribution of our Hindu traditions in the community. 🙏🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🏏

Reminder! 🔔 You still have until Thursday, July 2nd at 12pm to turn in a submission for the America 250 Art Contest in the Visitors Center! Display your artistic expressions and celebrate the fusion of our two cultures!

Jay Swãminãrãyan, Reminder this week’s Prayan & Satsang Sabhas are today!

🎨 LAST CALL: Desi Roots, American Dreams Art Contest! 🇺🇸🇮🇳 Calling artists of all ages! Submissions for our America 250 Art Contest have been extended until Thursday, July 2 at 12:00 PM. 📍 Drop off your artwork at the Visitor’s Center at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chino Hills. 🔗 Full contest details and guidelines available on the official contest page. We welcome a variety of artistic mediums, including: 🖌️ Paintings ✏️ Drawings & Sketches 💻 Digital Art 📸 Photography 🎨 Mixed Media 🗿 Sculpture & 3D Art This is your chance to celebrate the theme “Desi Roots, American Dreams” and showcase what America’s 250th anniversary means to you, your family, and your heritage. 🏆 Contest Prizes 👧 Bal–Balika Mandal (Ages 3–14) Yogurtland Gift Cards 🥇 1st Place: $100 🥈 2nd Place: $50 🥉 3rd Place: $25 🧑‍🎓 Kishore–Kishori Mandal (Ages 14–22) Starbucks Gift Cards 🥇 1st Place: $100 🥈 2nd Place: $50 🥉 3rd Place: $25 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Ages 23+ Target Gift Cards 🥇 1st Place: $100 🥈 2nd Place: $50 🥉 3rd Place: $25 ⭐ People’s Choice Awards Two winners will each receive a $50 Visa Gift Card! Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of this historic celebration as we honor 250 years of the American story through art, culture, and community. We can’t wait to see your creativity come to life! 🇺🇸✨

🇺🇸 Relive the memories. Reignite the spirit of service. As America celebrates 250 years of independence, we’re reminded that some of our greatest moments are not just the ones we witness—but the ones we build together through service. This spring, thousands came together for the BAPS Charities Spirit of Service Walk-Run, demonstrating that giving back remains one of America’s most enduring traditions. Every step taken was a tribute to the values that have united generations: compassion, volunteerism, and community. Take a moment to relive these incredible memories and celebrate the impact we created together right here in Los Angeles. 🎥 https://youtu.be/MKXN8AACSss #America250 #SpiritOfService

Jay Swãminãrãyan, Reminder this week’s Prayan & Satsang Sabhas are on Saturday, June 27th.

Join us Saturday, June 27th for our June Parayan by Pujya Aksharvandan Swami.

🇺🇸✨ Ways for the BAPS Family to Get Involved in America 250 ✨🇺🇸 As we prepare for our two-day celebration, Desi Roots. American Dreams., there are many ways for everyone to participate and help make this a memorable event for our community and our country. 📅 July 3–4, 2026 📍 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Los Angeles 🌐 lamandir.site/america250 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙋‍♂️ Volunteer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thousands of guests are expected, and we need volunteers to help welcome visitors, support activities, and make this celebration possible. 📝 Sign up to volunteer: https://form.jotform.com/261531559136155 Please register as soon as possible so teams can plan accordingly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Attend the Independence Plaza Dedication ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join us as we dedicate Independence Plaza and the America 250 Time Capsule in honor of our nation’s 250th anniversary. 📅 Saturday, July 4 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Open to the entire community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 Contribute to the America 250 Time Capsule ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help preserve our stories and memories for future generations. Community members are invited to submit: ✉️ Letters and messages 📸 Photos and memories 📝 Reflections 🏛️ Organizational materials ❤️ Hopes and wishes for the future 📦 Beginning Sunday, June 21, submissions may be placed in the collection box located in the Visitor Center. Individuals, families, organizations, and public officials are all welcome to participate. Param Pujya Mahant Swami Maharaj will also be writing a special message for the time capsule! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 Enter the Art Contest ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Children, youth, and adults are invited to share their creativity around the theme: 🗓 Artwork drop-off in Visitor’s Center June 21–28 ℹ️ Details: https://bapslosangeles.my.canva.site/america250/art-contest ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 Participate in the Expressions Stage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Share your talents, stories, poetry, music, demonstrations, or other creative expressions celebrating gratitude, heritage, and the American dream. ℹ️ Details: https://bapslosangeles.my.canva.site/america250/expressions-stage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎉 Attend and Invite Others ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Friday, July 3 • 4 PM–9 PM 📅 Saturday, July 4 • 9 AM–9 PM Featuring: 🍴 Food Court 🏛 Guided Tours 📚 Exhibits 🎤 Expressions Stage 🎨 Art Gallery 👨‍👩‍👧 Kids Zone 🎡 Carnival Rides 🎆 America the Beautiful Light & Sound Spectacular This free community celebration is an opportunity to reflect, honor, and celebrate the blessings of the country we proudly call home. Invite your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and community members to join us! 🌐 For schedules, updates, and more information: lamandir.site/america250 🇺🇸 Reflect. Honor. Celebrate. 🇺🇸

🇺🇸✨ Ways for the BAPS Family to Get Involved in America 250 ✨🇺🇸 As we prepare for our two-day celebration, Desi Roots. American Dreams., there are many ways for everyone to participate and help make this a memorable event for our community and our country. 📅 July 3–4, 2026 📍 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Los Angeles 🌐 lamandir.site/america250 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙋‍♂️ Volunteer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thousands of guests are expected, and we need volunteers to help welcome visitors, support activities, and make this celebration possible. 📝 Sign up to volunteer: https://form.jotform.com/261531559136155 Please register as soon as possible so teams can plan accordingly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 Attend the Independence Plaza Dedication ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join us as we dedicate Independence Plaza and the America 250 Time Capsule in honor of our nation’s 250th anniversary. 📅 Saturday, July 4 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Open to the entire community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 Contribute to the America 250 Time Capsule ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help preserve our stories and memories for future generations. Community members are invited to submit: ✉️ Letters and messages 📸 Photos and memories 📝 Reflections 🏛️ Organizational materials ❤️ Hopes and wishes for the future 📦 Beginning Sunday, June 21, submissions may be placed in the collection box located in the Visitor Center. Individuals, families, organizations, and public officials are all welcome to participate. Param Pujya Mahant Swami Maharaj will also be writing a special message for the time capsule! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 Enter the Art Contest ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Children, youth, and adults are invited to share their creativity around the theme: 🗓 Artwork drop-off in Visitor’s Center June 21–28 ℹ️ Details: https://bapslosangeles.my.canva.site/america250/art-contest ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 Participate in the Expressions Stage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Share your talents, stories, poetry, music, demonstrations, or other creative expressions celebrating gratitude, heritage, and the American dream. ℹ️ Details: https://bapslosangeles.my.canva.site/america250/expressions-stage ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎉 Attend and Invite Others ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Friday, July 3 • 4 PM–9 PM 📅 Saturday, July 4 • 9 AM–9 PM Featuring: 🍴 Food Court 🏛 Guided Tours 📚 Exhibits 🎤 Expressions Stage 🎨 Art Gallery 👨‍👩‍👧 Kids Zone 🎡 Carnival Rides 🎆 America the Beautiful Light & Sound Spectacular This free community celebration is an opportunity to reflect, honor, and celebrate the blessings of the country we proudly call home. Invite your family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and community members to join us! 🌐 For schedules, updates, and more information: lamandir.site/america250 🇺🇸 Reflect. Honor. Celebrate. 🇺🇸

🏏 Cricket is coming to Los Angeles! For haribhakto who are interested in cricket and would like to attend Major League Cricket matches in Los Angeles, the LA Knight Riders have kindly provided special discount codes for our community. 📍 Matches will be played at Knight Riders Cricket Ground at Fairplex Pomona from July 1–5. ✅ Special Bundle: 3 LA Knight Riders home games for $100 Code: MLCBUNDLEBAPS ✅ 10% off any ticket purchase: Code: MLCBAPS 🎟️ Purchase tickets here: https://tickets.majorleaguecricket.com/content?lang=en

In Vachanamrut Sarangpur 7, Bhagwan Swaminarayan reveals that the true Naimisharanya Kshetra is where the sharp edges of the mind are worn down through satsang, bhakti, and association with the Ekantik Sant. There, inner turmoil gives way to peace, and spiritual progress becomes natural. Join us as we explore the journey from a restless mind to a spiritual oasis. 📖 English Sanyukta Sabha 🗓 Sunday, June 21 ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 📍 Gymnasium 🎙 Pujya Adarshnayandas Swami We look forward to welcoming you!

In Vachanamrut Sarangpur 7, Bhagwan Swaminarayan reveals that the true Naimisharanya Kshetra is where the sharp edges of the mind are worn down through satsang, bhakti, and association with the Ekantik Sant. There, inner turmoil gives way to peace, and spiritual progress becomes natural. Join us as we explore the journey from a restless mind to a spiritual oasis. 📖 English Sanyukta Sabha 🗓 Sunday, June 21 ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 📍 Gymnasium 🎙 Pujya Adarshnayandas Swami We look forward to welcoming you!