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Over the past year, Bahá’ís and friends developed new capacities, steeled their resolve, linked arms with everyone they could, took a running jump and landed in the invigorating waters of the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh. Now they are exploring — with more and more companions — the ever-widening channels and uncharted tributaries before them.
Bahá’ís in Somerville, Massachusetts, are beginning to see entire families engage in a process of spiritual empowerment. They are seeing an evolution in the language they use in inviting people to engage in community-building activities, as well as the ways they collaborate with them.
No local Bahá’í institutions or agencies? No problem, say the few believers of Fremont and Pueblo counties in south-central Colorado. With help and encouragement, they planned and carried out an impressive and diverse array of initiatives leading to the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh.
Alongside other believers and visiting Bahá’ís in Dalton, Georgia, the heavily Latino “Carpet Capital of the World,” the couple are giving back to the community that was their first home after marrying.
A quest to make Bahá’í Holy Day celebrations inviting to everyone is heating up in a large area of the Central California coast and fueling a range of community-building activities, catching fire from the past year’s efforts to plan the bicentenary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh.
“The joy that is found in discovering the love and power of connecting together as one human family,” as one of the 25 attendees put it, shone through as Bahá’ís and friends from the Kansas City and St. Louis areas of Missouri “drummed up a conversation.”
Screening and discussion of Light to the World crowned fall semester activities for the Bahá’í Club at Texas A&M University, and not only the film but the event itself inspired hope and sparked ideas in some of those who watched alongside the Bahá’ís.
Bahá’ís in Pierce County, Washington, set plans in motion in January to make Ayyám-i-Há “a better time than ever to reach out to our neighbors, friends, and family about the Faith.” They hope to build a pattern of action and learning for Bahá’í Holy Days to be observed in the next two years.
Pledges of personal action to build community cascaded from a gathering of Persian-American Bahá’ís and their friends, in Gwinnett County, Georgia. A key observer says the outpouring owed much to a systematic campaign launched earlier in 2017 to visit families in their homes
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