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Thus, the following year on 6 November 1988, Khun Yay led the Kathina ceremony at the temple. That day the temple was packed to standing room only with congregation members who had come to wish her well. It was not the only time for Khun Yay, but she led the Kathina many subsequent times and robe-offering ceremonies too. In total, Khun Yay was to go on to be the president of the Kathina ceremony ten times and for the robe offering ceremony twenty times. When in 1994 Luang Phaw Dhammajayo announced that he wanted to pay homage to the Great Abbot of Wat Paknam by casting his image in solid gold, Khun Yay exclaimed: "Sadhu!" That I have tirelessly devoted myself to training up students of the Dhammakāya Tradition so that this temple can have been built over the last twenty years, even to the point of collapsing from exhaustion on occasion – has all been out of my homage to the Great Abbot of Wat Paknam. However, all of this homage had been something I have kept to myself. I have always wanted to make an overt token of my devotion. Thus I rejoice in the merit of your wanting to cast his image in solid gold. I will help to bring together all those with seasoned perfections to help in its completion." Thus it came to pass that Luang Phaw Dhammajayo, Khun Yay and assembled disciples of the Great Abbot of Wat Paknam from throughout Thailand joined to express their homage to the Great Abbot by casting his image with an entire ton of solid gold on 25 February 1994 with H.E. Somdej Phra Mahā Rājamangalacharn, the present abbot of Wat Paknam, presiding over the ceremony.