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• She loved how this was "Faith in Action"

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Home visits are a powerful means to forge friendships, to engage the community of interest, to nurture new believers—just to name a few things! The friends in the Howard County-Laurel, MD (A) recently set an ambitious goal for themselves to carry out 50 home visits during the current cycle of their intensive ...
  1 week ago

• Astonishing accomplishments in just 12 months

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Sometimes when we are so busy with the teaching work, we don’t ever notice the progress that is occurring. And yet, when we pause to look back on where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going, we can see that we have accomplished so, so much! The Regional Bahá’í Council for the Northeastern ...
  1 week ago

• "Do you also happen to have a pamphlet in . . ."

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  This story is an absolute delight. A Bahá’í visits a restaurant, and the waitress turns the tables on him with order after order—of Bahá’í books and pamphlets in diverse languages! It’s a wonderful example of the receptivity that is out there. Moreover, across the country, the friends have encountered a ...
  1 week ago

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  Trade Regulation Talk — Authority: 124
  Absent Community of Interest, Distributor Was Not Wisconsin “Dealer” This posting was written by Pete Reap, Editor of CCH Business Franchise Guide. The relationship between a hardwood flooring distributor and a manufacturer was not a "dealership" under the meaning of the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law (WFDL) ...
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• She was so happy when she said "yes"

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  We have many conversations throughout the day. Some are on spiritual and lofty matters, others are on more mundane topics. When we strive to have meaningful conversations, teaching becomes something that happens naturally through our interactions, rather than as an isolated activity removed from the normal course of ...
  1 week ago

• . . . and then YOU knocked on our door!

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  The core activities are not just portals to growth; they are also a means to form intimate and meaningful friendships. This story from Fort Collins, CO (A) highlights this aspect of receptivity—people are yearning for positive and meaningful interactions with others. These receptive individuals connect with the ...
  1 week ago

• Re-charged Bahai Campus Association plunges into action

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  What can a small group of Bahá’ís at a university campus do? How can a Bahá’í Campus Association (BCA) contribute to the Five Year Plan? The answer to both these questions is “A ton!” We are very excited to share these two pieces of correspondence related to a recently established BCA. The loving ...
  1 week ago

• Seeker hosts devotional, teaches, unites religions

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  This is a story of a seeker organizing a devotional gathering, inviting her friends and family, and teaching the Faith. (It’s happening more and more, isn’t it?) What makes this story especially compelling is that the seeker and her guests are all Persian. A few years ago, perhaps not many people would have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Widening the community of interest through online declaration

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Here is the story of an individual in the Central region who registered his Faith online. In this case, his investigation of the Faith involved both “remote” approaches and friendships with local believers. This account, shared by the regional seeker response specialist, highlights the various aspects of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• New believers stories get us out of our routines

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  All of us can slide into routines. Something you do every day, every week, so much that it becomes automatic and maybe just at the back of your mind. Sometimes we can even make the Faith itself just a routine. We do all our activities—on autopilot. One of the things that can shake us out of our routines is the sheer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Loving response to adversity stimulates interest

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Adversity—and our response to it—helps teach the Faith. A few weeks ago, the Orlando Bahá’í Center burned down in a fire that the police ultimately discovered to be caused by arson. This tragedy was covered by the local news, and the calm and loving response of the friends there (and their steadfastness in ...
  3 weeks ago

• You just gotta love the technology age

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Technology is opening the doors in so many different ways. It is providing a means to easily register one’s Faith in Bahá’u’lláh. It is also providing so many different opportunities to hear about the Faith for the first time, and to study it. Here are two intriguing examples shared by one of the regional ...
  3 weeks ago

• "I was looking for this for 10 years"

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  This brief report from a regional seeker response specialist about his conversation with a new believer highlights there are so many ways in which people can hear about the Faith and reach out to the Bahá’ís. And once they do, the local friends and the core activities play a key role both before and after their ...
  4 weeks ago

• New believer registers self and children online

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Almost every day, individuals are taking the opportunity to declare their belief in Bahá’u’lláh online at the public Web site www.bahai.us . The following story of an online declaration has several elements that are worthy of reflection. First, this individual had been previously studying the Faith several ...
  4 weeks ago

• eMembership completes the process

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  Here is a brief story of someone who reached out to the Bahá’ís through the public Web site www.bahai.us and was followed up with by the local friends. Once again you can see seekers’ enthusiasm for core activities and meeting Bahá’ís near them. One very important detail: His enrollment was speeded ...
  5 weeks ago

• "The reason we bring our kids is because we trust you"

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  This story of a neighborhood children’s class in the Gwinnett-North Fulton, GA (A) cluster that started two years ago among a receptive population is nothing short of truly stunning. The systematic dedication of the organizers (after false starts and even opposition) is amazing, the level of enthusiasm of both the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Firesides and COI: a winning combination

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  This article from the cluster newsletter of Phoenix, AZ (A) describes a new approach being tried out by some of the teaching teams there: a focus on firesides with their community of interest. There are several things that caught my eye. First, they are operating in a systematic, learning mode, regularly reviewing ...
  5 weeks ago

• Awakening souls in the shadow of the Tetons

  
  teaching.bahai.us — Authority: 126
  No matter how remote one’s location or smallness of numbers, the friends are galvanizing themselves to reach out to their friends, families and neighbors and teach. Here is a story of an earnest teaching endeavor in Driggs, ID (C) . This teaching effort was initiated by a recently-declared believer, and engaged the ...
  5 weeks ago

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