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Baha’is were there for Brett Emmons when he expressed interest in the Baha’i Faith, undertook its study, and took training courses aimed at increasing his ability to serve humanity. Now, still accompanied by others, he is sharing the teachings with others and sparking in them a flame of love. Hundreds of miles away, Ibrahim Sillah [...]
Need, meet opportunity. Photo Gallery An intensive Book 3 coincides with children’s camp in Oregon. Photo courtesy of Marcia Veach Click to enlarge and browse a gallery of related photos. Participants in a Portland, Oregon-area intensive study of Book 3 (Teaching Children’s Classes: Grade 1) of the Ruhi Institute training sequence found an ideal venue [...]
The institute process enabled Cheyenne, Wyoming, to regain its Local Spiritual Assembly. So it’s fitting the Ruhi Institute training courses will remain the nucleus of efforts to grow the Baha’i community. After a lapse of several years, Cheyenne gained enough registered Baha’is to elect its Assembly this April. Wyoming as a whole had nary an [...]
Baha’is are still learning about the unique role of tutors in the life of our local communities: not just to facilitate learning in study circles, but also to accompany those circles’ participants in acts of service. That “learning by doing” approach is what makes local tutor gatherings — meetings of people who have been serving [...]
Edwardsville, Winchester: new vistas along an old road
Baha’is in Edwardsville, Illinois, and Winchester, Virginia, both bisected by U.S. 50, are using a healthy streak of self-reliance to develop their communities
Ruhi practices and reflection gatherings — a perfect match
An effort to better link the training institute process with activity toward growth of the Baha’i Faith in Atlanta, Georgia, is building a “new sense of community.” That’s the experience of Joanna Wooster, the cluster’s institute coordinator. She had participated last August in a seminar focused on enhancing understanding of Ruhi Book 1, Reflections on [...]
Urge to complete institute courses has wide-ranging impact
Intensive trainings lead to great service in New York City neighborhood and in four western Wisconsin clusters
Relationships with — and among — families Connection with families has been the guiding principle in the formation of study circles for youths in a San Diego, California, neighborhood. One circle, on Sunday mornings, is timed to coincide with a children’s class — since four families are connected with both activities — and facilitate service [...]
Communication is essential for Bahá’ís as geographically spread as those in the Pathfinder cluster of east-central Wyoming. The cluster, centered on Casper, has launched a website and begun to experiment with video chat as a vehicle for group study. “Due to our small and scattered numbers, we have chosen to make use of the Internet [...]
Viva Espíritu Latino!
Participants in Espirítu Latino at Green Acre pose for a group photo Shoghi Effendi once described Latin American believers as “eager, warmhearted, spiritually minded, staunch, and dynamic.” Such qualities were highly visible as dozens of our Latino brothers and sisters came together for Espíritu Latino at Green Acre Bahá’í School, May 22–24. Their story begins [...]