https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building daily 0.75 2023-12-16 https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/devotional-gathering-on-theme-of-environment monthly 0.5 2023-12-16 https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/video-mosman-park-institute-camp-2020 monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/cluster-reflection-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/ed27d184-d60d-4ea5-b376-a401fcc3a1aa/WhatsApp+Image+2021-12-12+at+11.20.53+AM.jpeg Community Building - Reflection Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/centenary-bahai-faith-australia monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/1607803131580-RWBMH2QQFANOY6NMPBB5/Photo+2.jpeg Community Building - Centenary of the Bahá’í Faith in Australia An exhibition celebrating the Centenary of the Bahá’í Faith in Australia featured prominently for two weeks in the centre of Peppermint Grove Library next to the entrance. There were many plaudits including from local artist Corrine Barton, whose “Tree of Life” painting featured in the exhibition. She wrote: “The exhibition looks great and is a fitting, comprehensive tribute. Congratulations.” Shire President Rachel Thomas, who opened the exhibition, commented: “It looks fantastic, many congratulations on putting it all together.” Many of the visitors to the exhibition continued conversations in the adjoining café. About 150 centenary booklets, 100 “What is the Bahá’í Faith?” booklets and hundreds of bookmarks were taken. The exhibition came about after the Peppermint Grove Spiritual Assembly presented Mrs Thomas with the centenary booklet and explained the significance of the anniversary. She asked the Bahá’ís to have an exhibition on the centenary at the library, which is jointly managed by the Shire of Peppermint Grove and the Towns of Mosman Park and Cottesloe. Peppermint Grove, in collaboration with the neighbouring Mosman Park and Cottesloe communities, worked together on creating the exhibition. The resulting exhibition was beautiful and dignified, combining the history of the Faith along with artwork by both local Bahá’ís and neighbourhood friends of the Bahá’ís, It is hoped that the exhibition will inspire people to learn more and inquire further about the Faith in their local communities. https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/enkindling-hearts-music monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/1608731851234-EK8ZQVE0LT5JPOLEQTX0/Musical+devotions.jpg Community Building - Enkindling the hearts through music Perth Bahá’í youth frequently set the Faith’s sacred texts to music. It is a beautiful way of enhancing the devotional spirit by intoning the verses of God revealed by The Báb, Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdul-Bahá. Youth from Peppermint Grove are photographed at one of these occasions, where they invited their friends to be part of their musical devotional. Regardless of beliefs and age, these youth came together in unity to meditate on the verses’ spiritual guidance, something which is starting to happen across Perth. Later, many of these youth were inspired to put worship into practice and serve their community in a variety of ways. A few youth arose to move into multiple regional towns and partake in service to their community. Other youth replicated the musical devotionals in their own community. Assisting with the development and spiritual education of children and junior youth was also an avenue of service that youth decided to take. These gatherings are inspired by these words of the Universal House of Justice, the Bahá’í world governing body, written in a message dated 29 December 2015: “ . . . gatherings for worship have been integrated into the core of community life. Devotional meetings are occasions where any soul may enter, inhale the heavenly fragrances, experience the sweetness of prayer, meditate upon the Creative Word, be transported on the wings of the spirit, and commune with the one Beloved. “Feelings of fellowship and common cause are generated, particularly in the spiritually heightened conversations that naturally occur at such times and through which the “city of the human heart” may be opened.” https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/camps-build-capacity monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/1607803057449-QDGLQPLJFVNU4929DYML/PastedGraphic-1.png Community Building - Camps build capacity Every school holidays Bahá’ís and their friends hold camps where youth and adults form close friendships as they study Ruhí Institute courses designed to help their self-development and help them contribute more to society. They use music and the arts to express their ideas. At the camps, participants have conversations about real issues that face society and build their capacity to facilitate community-building programs in their neighbourhood. These programs are for all ages — children aged 5-11, junior youth aged 12-15 and adults. An increasing number of the camps are taking place within neighbourhoods themselves, so that they can be tailored to the specific needs of those communities. https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/children-day-camp monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/1607803274168-EL82A74R0G6237ZZLRRM/PastedGraphic-3.png Community Building - Children’s Day Camp A group of Bahá’ís in South Perth turned a negative into a positive after being unable to find a primary school where they could hold a children’s day camp during the school holidays. Instead they consulted on alternative options and decided on a smaller-scale service activity — a visit by their children’s class to a nursing home. The group drew on the regular Bahá’í practice of consultation and reflection in its planning. They visited various day camp reflection exercises where they were able to learn more about what form a day camp should take and ask questions regarding the process of starting up such an activity. It demonstrates how persistence is required with such activities and even though a camp as such didn’t materialise, it led to another worthwhile activity. Visiting a local nursing home is a regular service activity that a different Bahá’í group in South Perth carries out. Whenever the Kensington neighbourhood project holds children’s day camps, they include a visit to one particular nursing home, where the children present craft gifts to the residents. They make the gifts at the camp. Four new children participated in one of these recent initiatives and have now joined a Bahá’í children’s class in Kensington. https://perth.wa.bahai.org.au/community-building/junior-youth-group-proves-great-draw monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd2d6dcdec857066a9e6624/1607653084585-75O6NMZL8EV9NAX7IFO6/PastedGraphic-2.png Community Building - Junior youth group proves a great draw A new junior youth group in Mosman Park got underway with an exercise that literally drew participants into the program. The group was split into pairs with one person describing an image to their partner who drew that image without it being seen by the one giving the description. The activity generated a great discussion about how the junior youth program helps enhance participants’ powers of expression and how important these skills can be when trying to communicate our thoughts to others who may not be able to see things the same way. The group then explored a spot on the Swan River, known as the “secret river” and which they now visit regularly. They also bounced around the local park playing games and learning to skateboard. It was a joyous and full day. 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