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Life in Baltimore, Maryland, a city of row houses, centers on people’s front stoops. So when Baha’is began sharing the Faith’s teachings in the Collington Square neighborhood three years ago, all eyes were on them. They’d have to demonstrate to residents of one of the city’s poorest areas their love and sincerity. The catalyst, Tod [...]
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 [...]
Process of learning and growth builds on considerable momentum of past five years
A process of community building is playing out in the first year of a new planning and action cycle
Baha’is in other parts of the cluster are catching the vibe from Spiceberry
Baha’is gain skills, put them into use and engage others in spiritual conversation so they can build community
Teachers seize opportunity to put additional lessons to use
Second look: circle is completed as entire family declares belief
Local Baha’is follow through in teaching family that had been assisted by visitor from Tennessee
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
As members act, reflect, consult and study, they forge bonds and grow in capacity and experience
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 [...]
The Word of God opens doors Baltimore, Maryland, Bahá’ís have discovered that the “universal desire to share the Word of God” is making it easier to forge friendships and earn trust. That is especially true, says Tod Rutstein, in neighborhoods populated mainly by people of other cultures. “The receptive neighborhoods we are currently working with [...]
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 [...]
Leyla Smieja empowers fellow residents to identify the area’s needs and devise ways to tackle them.
New York City Council member paves way for Children’s Theatre Company residency in four public schools.
October 12, 2010 – 4:55pm Building on the successful 2009 Semester on Peace at the University of Maryland, the Baha’i Chair for World Peace has launched the Pathways to Peace initiative. The program will guide those seeking ways to engage in peace making on campus. Dan Mote (in jacket), president of the University of Maryland, converses with John [...]
The Bloomington, Indiana, Baha’i community is steadily building on an individual’s neighborhood initiative.
The Baha’i Faith has some lofty goals. To name just a few: developing a consciousness of world citizenship, the establishment of full equality between men and women, the elimination of all forms of prejudice and the development of an economy informed by spiritual principles. Many people might think of these ideas as utopian, and rightly [...]
“Study circle” sounds sedate and mundane, but Baha’i study circles can be anything but.