Cluster Reflection Meeting Highlights
WREN, BENTON COUNTY - 16July2009
This past Saturday, our cluster marked the 4th anniversary since the launch on July 9th, 2005, of the first Cluster Reflection Meeting to quickly advance the awareness of the teachings of Bahá’u'lláh throughout Benton and Linn Counties. At this four year mark, we noted the advance of individuals through the courses of the training institute (see Study Circles) which in turn provides the impulse for the multiplication of core activities and an “increasingly direct approach to sharing Bahá’u’lláh’s Message.” We celebrated the goals won and reflected on the advances achieved during this past 3-month period. We studied guidance, discussed new goals, planned, and pledged actions for this new cycle.
The following goals were set for Cycle 17 (11 July – 9 October)
1. Establish a new children’s class in Corvallis
2. Engage 10 new people in the study of the book “Reflections on the Life of the Spirit”
3. Establish 3 new junior youth groups
4. Achieve 60 friends attending devotions during planning and expansion phases
5. Receive five new people who have accepted the Message of Bahá’u'lláh!
Additionally, individuals and teaching teams made pledges spanning a variety of endeavors that include:
· Setting home visit goals, working on ways to teach receptive coworkers, and making connections between friends we have in common
· Initiating new core activities and increasing participation in those already established
· Offers to tutor “intensive” study circles (many hours in a few days) and start a study of the book “Teaching the Bahá’í Faith” in August
· Visiting parents of junior youth group and children class participants
· Explore direct teaching in parks and presentations about the Bahá’í Faith
Everyone is invited to join in collective prayer and action during the upcoming expansion phase to support each other in the “sweetness” of sharing the message of Bahá’u'lláh with others:
· Saturday and Sunday, 18 & 19 July, 9 a.m. at the home of Nourieh and Iraj Motazedian
· Monday through Friday, 20-25 July, 7:30 a.m. at the home of Adel Faridani and Lorri Hendon
· Saturday and Sunday, 26 & 27 July, 9 a.m. at the home of Deborah Hobbs
For the photographic essay of the event, click here