Jan Merrill and Gary Bond read a Baha'i prayer for peace and a Baha'i writing about racial harmony at the 4th Annual Interfaith Night of Music and the Spoken Word at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento. Pictured are the presenters Jon Fish, Jan Merrill, Gary Bond, Diana Rude', Tom Hamilton, Bishop Cotta, Jeff Cota and Jeanne Anderson-West.
The Baha'i prayers/writings that were offered are:
PRAYER FOR AMERICA:
This fall Auburn Interfaith Food Closet is planning to help local families learn to prepare healthy, affordable and easy meals using crock-pots. These meals will be using many of the foods normally received from the Food Closet. They need your help!! Do you have a new or gently used crock-pot you’d like to donate to a family? If so, please drop them off at Auburn Interfaith Food Closet by October 15th. The Food Closet is located at 12972 Earhart Avenue, Suite 301 (behind Pacific Power), Auburn, CA 95602. Their telephone number is 530-885-1921. Thank you for sharing the blessings!
On a warm night in Roseville a family gathered to celebrate fifty years of marriage. Parents, children, grandchildren, other family and friends came together in a demonstration of the accord that Baha'u'llah revealed will proceed and form the basic unit of world unity. That same world unity, built on a foundation of lasting marriage, will lead humanity to the Most Great Peace. The Most Great Peace will be ushered in at a time in the far off future when mankind will love as brothers, when the lion-like personalities will reside with the lamb-like personalities in complete amity.
Did you know that September is Hunger Action Month?
Did you know that the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet has served approximately 800 families per month this year so far?
AIFC serves approximately 2,400 individuals per month and provides food for about 21,000 meals per month to people in need in Placer County. This year an average of 64 NEW families visit each month.
If you are visiting the Gold Country Fair tomorrow, check out the Auburn Interfaith Food Closet booth and learn how you can take action against hunger! The booth is open 4-8 pm on Friday, September 5.
The following article reports the ongoing persecution of the largest religious minority - the Baha'is.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/18/iran-dozens-unlawfully-held-city-s-pr...
The "Hidden Words" is a compilation of verses in Arabic and Persian revealed by Baha'u'llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith, in Baghdad about 1858 AD (C.E.) As can be seen in the opening verse quoted below, the Baha'is believe that the Prophet-Founders of past religions have all been the Bearers of the message of the One True God at different times and places. The "Hidden Words" claims to have taken the "inner essence" of those past religions and has re-revealed it for today.
Khalil Gibran blessed the world with a lasting work of poetry in 1923. Here is the beginning of a series of articles relating the inspiration behind this book.
Very exciting news, the Baha'i communities of Placer County have a new website.
This can be used to display their activities to their friends and neighbors and providers a common calendar whereby each community's individual events are placed. All of these views are consolidated on the front page so the individual viewer may see the combination of all events together.
