Service & Community Building Activities

A community building process is at work in villages, cities, and neighborhoods all over the world! Part of this grassroots action-oriented work includes participation in devotional gatherings, empowering youth and junior youth, teaching spiritual education for children, praying for someone, social and economic development, or engaging through social action and public discourse. Service is considered the highest calling in the Bahá’í Faith. Service to humanity uplifts the soul, brings joy, and draws blessings to individuals and communities.

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Core Activities

A study group of Bahá’í concepts related to development of the individual and community life in a format of distance learning. This institute is dedicated to actionable service.

devotions

Core Activities

A prayer meeting dedicated to connecting our inner life with the Creator of the universe, participants share prayers, passages and even poetry in a spiritual atmosphere.

children

Core Activities

Children focus on human character development through the loving guidance of trained teachers working in the neighborhoods. They incorporate activities, songs and drama with lessons.

junioryouth

Core Activities

A spiritual empowerment group, ages 12-15, members from different ethnic and religious backgrounds engage in service projects, recreation, and study in an effort towards excellence.

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Introduction To The Faith

Public Informational Meeting and discussion about the Bahá’í Faith on a variety of topics. A great place to ask questions and discover the Faith together.

A devotional gathering at the Baha'i Centre in Boca De Balsa, Panama

Deepening Activities

Learning about spiritual conversations is key to elevating the nature of our interactions and developing deeper, enduring bonds of friendship; exploring individual and community life from Bahá'í teachings.

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Contribute to Dialogue

Bahá'ís strive to participate in the discourses prevalent in society and advance public awareness of social justice issues related to racism, gender equality, social responsibility and ecology among other issues.

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Development Activities

From community service initiatives to junior youth service projects, as activities grow in complexity, groups strive to contribute to and better the society of which they are an integral part.

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Service is the magnet which draws the divine confirmations...when a person is active, they are blessed by the Holy Spirit. When they are inactive, the Holy Spirit cannot find a repository in their being, and thus they are deprived of its healing and quickening rays.
-Shoghi Effendi