The Baha’i Community

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CORVALLIS, OR - Aug. 22, 2009
The Annual Race Unity Picnic was held in Avery Park with over 100 participants. The joyously diverse program included the Unity Choir, a latin altiplano musical duo and the Hispanic Children Dancers. It was a wonderful moment to share diverse colors and music as well as to renew friendships, reflecting […]

PHILOMATH, OR
20 Aug. 2009
During six days and five nights, youth between the ages of 11 and 14 gathered with their older youth animators to participate in a summer community building activity based on prayer, singing, deepening on spiritual themes, personal reflection and community service. The curriculum was based on new materials recently published by the […]

Promoting the arts to uplift the human spirit and build community is an activity of increasing interest of the Bahá’ís both in Benton County, Oregon as well as worldwide. The third annual “Gift of the Spirit” arts festival, organized by the Bahá’ís of Benton County, is currently being planned for February 13, 2010, from […]

26 May 2008
The elected delegate from Oregon Bahá’í District 159 (including among them Benton County) has returned from the 100th National Bahá’í Convention held in Foundation Hall of the Bahá’í House of Worship for North America in Wilmette, Illinois. The four day event included 171 delegates from all parts of continental USA who gathered to […]

The second annual “Gift of the Spirit” arts festival is slated for Saturday, May 31st, 2008. As was the case last year, the festival will take place at the Corvallis Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave. Corvallis, OR 97330, starting at 11:00 AM. Those wishing to submit entries for the festival (visual arts, songs, […]

PHILOMATH, OR
January 26, 2008
What happens when a community wants to bring the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith to an entire town? The Baha’is in Benton County, Oregon found out. Over the past 9 days, about 40 dedicated souls (30 of whom reside in the county) knocked on just about every door in Philomath […]

Philomath, OR
July 27-29th and August 10-12th, 2007
Two highly successful junior youth “Eco-camps” were held in Cluster OR 15 (Benton County) this summer using the Ruhi Institute’s “Junior Youth Ecology Camp 1” materials. The 3-day camps began at 3pm on Friday afternoon and ended at 11:30am on the following Sunday morning. This experience included camping […]

CORVALLIS, OR - 12 May 2007 - The first Annual Arts Festival “Gift of the Spirit” sponsored by the Bahá’ís of Benton County took place on May 12, 2007. Various local artists showed and performed their artistic creations to over 150 visitors. The event took place the entire day at the Corvallis Public Library. […]

CORVALLIS, OREGON, United States, 4 September 2007 - During the summer of 2006, the Bahá’í communities of Benton County have noticed an important increase in the number of Core Activities being offered in Corvallis, Philomath and rural Benton County. As a result, the centralized activity held weekly during the past ten years has now been […]