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By Madhava Smullen 

A new ISKCON Youth Ministry initiative, loosely based on the Mormon Mission trips and dubbed “The Krishna Conscious Gap Year Experience,” was endorsed by the GBC Executive Committee in a March 2021 letter to ISKCON leaders. Now, various international temples are piloting the program. 

“The idea is to create incentives for our young people to spend a semester – three, six, or nine months – or an entire gap year, living at a temple,” says ISKCON Youth Minister Manorama Das. “Th

ISKCON Zurich is searching for new Co-Temple Presidents for the Krishna Temple in Zurich, Switzerland. 

After thirteen years as temple president, Krishna Premarupa Das will focus more on his other services within ISKCON from October 2021 onwards. In the course of planning the succession, his tasks will be delegated to three Co-Presidents who together will form the new temple management. 

The individual service profiles are: 

• Co-President Administration, with the departments Finance and Accounti