(Minghui.org) The annual Gaslight Festival was held at Gaslight Square, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, near Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, on September 15-17, 2023. Local Falun Gong practitioners set up a booth at the event for the opportunity to introduce the spiritual practice to the public. Some visitors said that they were very interested in learning and subsequently practicing Falun Gong.

Started from a small street party in 1969, the Gaslight Festival has grown to become the 5th largest festival in the region, bringing about 200,000 visitors to Jeffersontown every year. Always on the third weekend in September, the festival now hosts a motorcycle rally, car show, golf scramble, 5K run, parade, balloon glow, children’s Playground, live entertainment, and over 200 arts & crafts and commercial booths.

Falun Gong practitioners introduced the cultivation practice to the public at the Gaslight Festival in Jeffersontown, Kentucky on September 15-17, 2023.

Falun Gong practitioners introduced visitors to the practice and the facts about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution in China. Many people had not heard of Falun Gong before. After they found out that Falun Gong can help relieve stress and make the body healthier, people expressed great interest, and asked about local practice sites and a time schedule to learn the exercises.

“Living based on Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is what I like”

One woman said she saw practitioners doing the exercises in a park where she played tennis, and was happy to see the Falun Gong booth at the festival. Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, which she said she likes and yearns for. Hearing that learning the exercise is free in the park, she said she would definitely go and learn.

A girl said that she had been looking for the meaning of life and wanted to learn to meditate. After hearing the introduction from a Falun Gong practitioner, she said she wanted to read Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong. When she heard that living Falun Gong practitioners in China had their organs harvested and sold for profit, she wanted to help stop the CCP’s crimes. The practitioner suggested that she let more people know about the persecution and contact elected officials in her district to ask them to support Falun Gong practitioners’ efforts to stop the persecution.