Maybe the 2010 youth conference? Maybe the Australian youth conference? Anyway, this song was used. #reminiscing. The artist is Badi. Enjoy. :)
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I was going through a bunch of old things, and I found the booklet for the 2009 Baha'i Youth Conference that was hosted in Auckland, New Zealand. Shout outs I think to Simeen Douglas, who did the beautiful design of the booklet. I could be wrong - I don't think I am, but I could be. Either way, how beautiful is this?! We had T-shirts with that phoenix star from the conference. I held onto mine for quite a few years, not sure where it's ended up now. There was such incredible energy at that youth conference, I remember coming away so inspired. Good job youth conference committee!! :) "...Arise in His name, put your trust wholly in God, and be assured of ultimate victory." (The Bab, in His address to the Letters of the Living)"...There is no time to lose. There is no room left for vacillation. Multitudes hunger for the Bread of Life. The stage is set. The firm and irrevocable Promise is given. God's own Plan has been set in motion. It is gathering momentum with every passing day. The powers of heaven and earth mysteriously assist in its execution. Such an opportunity is irreplaceable. Let the doubter arise and himself verify the truth of such assertions. To try, to persevere, is to insure ultimate and complete victory." (Shoghi Effendi)There was a camp hosted Labour Weekend just past, in the beautiful Wairarapas. I wasn't there, but my mother had the good fortune of attending, and I have the good fortune of being facebook friends with one of the organisers!!
You can see her childrens class blog HERE. #toolegittoquit. Anyway - here is a photo/craft idea that I am filing under **to try later!!** basically a arts idea about caring for animals, and a crafts idea of using bits of nature to create animals. :)
Here's a little excerpt from the back of the book..."In the Baha'i Faith, so its followers believe, may be found a healing message for the world - the fulfilment of the age-old promise of all religions. One of the greatest longings of a Baha'i then, is to see this message accepted by humanity as a whole. And since the Baha'i Faith has no clergy or other class of professional religious teachers, it is the ordinary believers themselves who must bring their Faith to the notice of those who are as yet unaware of it. Coercion of any kind is forbidden in the Baha'i teachings; instead, Baha'is are enjoined to teach their beliefs with 'wisdom and utterance' and people who accept the Baha'i Faith must do so of their own free will and conscience." Chapter 1 - Success in Teaching
Chapter 2 - Creating a Spiritual World
Chapter 3 - Overcoming Fear
Chapter 4 - Awakening the desire to teach.
Chapter 5 - Why we teach
Chapter 6 - Training our spiritual selves
Chapter 7 - Attaining a prayerful condition
Suggested 5 steps for prayer:
Chapter 8 - The importance of deepening
and that is all because I've now given the book away. lol.
Here are two more renditions: Elika Mahony and Ann-Sofie Wensbo. Definitely one of my favourite prayers.
We had a really beautiful celebration at the Baha'i Centre Sunday evening. Programme as follows:
The room was decorated with candles and flowers. A very moving evening :)
Charlie and I had the bounty of hosting this past feast! The programme was simple:
We had flowers! No photos of actual set ups, but same arrangement as the flowers below that I had prepared for my friends birthday (was the same evening). For the children's programme, I just reformatted a feast programme I found on the internet, and made a calendar for each of the children to have, with stickers attached to put on the days that they "used their knowledge to help someone". Both are below.
I had the fortune of picking up this little delight at a recent get together in Auckland.
It is so beautifully illustrated, and if you're in New Zealand, you can order it from the BDS (Bahai Distribution Service) for $16. Sweet deal. |
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