Events
We have a busy cluster with Children’s Classes, Study Circles, Devotions, Fire Sides, 19 Day Feasts, and Holy Day Celebrations; all going on in many places and at many times. These photos are snap shots of what has been happening in approximate chronological order.
19 Day Feast in the home of Carol Vartanian
Rear row: Christine, Whelma, Farkhonde, Raleigh, Sandy, Carol
Front row: Trish, Diane, Melinda, Sue, Chuck
If this feast be held in the proper fashion," 'Abdu'l-Baha states, "the friends will, once in nineteen days, find themselves spiritually restored, and endued with a power that is not of this world."
The 19 Day Feast has three distinct but related parts: the devotional, the administrative, and the social:
- The first entails the recitation of prayers and reading from the Holy Texts.
- The second is a general meeting where the Local Spiritual Assembly reports its activities, plans, and problems to the community, shares news and messages from the World Center and the National Assembly, and receives the thoughts and recommendations of the friends through a process of consultation.
- The third involves the partaking of refreshments and engaging in other activities meant to foster fellowship in a culturally determined diversity of forms which do not violate principles of the Faith or the essential character of the Feast.
 | John, Chris, and Ashley in a Children’s Class in the home of Maxine Watson in Manatee County
(Is Chris always that thoughtful?) |
 | Children’s Class in the home of Diane Stinnett in Sarasota County
"So powerful is the light of unity that
it can illume the whole world" |
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