Wednesday evening prayers Informal, come as you are. This is simply friends gathering to pray together. If you have a certain prayer or short reading you would like to share, that would be most welcome. Zoom 492 216 6288, pass 5599 at 8:30 to 9:00pm. Hosted by Steve Hunt phone #503 327 3455.
Community members in the Gorge are endevouring to bring out the best qualities and talents of middle-school age youth in service to their communities. Called the junior youth spiritual empowerment program, it consists of a small group of friends, usually some 10 to 20 members in a neighborhood or school, who come together once a week to study materials that help the group to identify and develop the attitudes and skills people need in order to to serve their communities in a meaningful way.
Turkey smoothie sun
The nourishment of our prayers
Friends of light gather
(A collection of poems from the Feast of Words)
An open invitation:
At noon every July 9, Bahá'ís and friends from Klickitat County and surrounding communities gather to commemorate the martyrdom of the Báb. In simple ceremony, prayers and songs shared by those present, the story of the Báb's life is told. All are welcome!
The 20th annual Windstock youth retreat has now come and gone. Held every year in the hills above Lyle, the somewhat informal event draws Bahá'í youth and their friends from around the region. Over 90 youth showed up for this Windstock, around three quarters of whom were Bahá'ís. This year also saw a large group of new attendees, with about one third of the youth participating for the first time.
For the next 19 days, your Bahá'í friends may not be joining you for lunch. Between the 2nd and the 20th of March, Bahá'ís in the Gorge and around the world will be fasting, neither eating nor drinking between sunrise and sunset each day.
This video, shared from the Bahá'í National Center's youtube channel, highlights the participation of one Bahá'í individual in an interfaith effort to raise awareness of environmental issues and specifically climate change. Although Christine is working in Rhode Island, the spiritual aspect of our care for the environment must transcend regional and national concerns; it is just as applicable here in the Gorge as it is anywhere else in the world.
