Tacoma Baha’i

Our information booth and adjacent children’s activities booth at this year’s Ethnic Fest at Wright Park were very successful again this year. Here, on Saturday, Kay helps children make race unity bracelets and George shares the Faith with an interested inquirer. In six hours on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., we gave away 320 balloons, with some reading “No Room in My Heart for Prejudice” and others reading “World Citizen.” We could have given away many more, but we had to save some of the helium for Sunday! We gave away about 500 balloons in the two days of Ethnic Fest (that’s the capacity of the helium tank). Dozens of children, with their parents, stopped by to make race unity bracelets, and many Fest visitors stopped by to have extended conversations about religion and the Baha’i Faith.

Ethnic Fest is an excellent venue for sharing the Faith. Thank you to the many people who volunteered their time to help!

The last trace of sunlight bids adieu for the day as the sun dips gracefully into the eastern Mediterranean Sea on a warm summer evening, as seen from the rooftop of the House of Abdu’llah Pasha in Akka, Israel. This is the house that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and His family lived in until He transferred His residence to Haifa, and the home where Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, was born late in the 19th century.

Bahá’ís should consider devoting themselves to a lifetime of service to their Faith. There are countless opportunities to do this over the course of a lifetime.

Consider the flowers of a garden: though differing in kind, colour, form and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays of one sun, this diversity increaseth their charm, and addeth unto their beauty.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Please join us for Tacoma – Pierce County’s annual celebration of our cultural diversity at Ethnic Fest at Wright Park in Tacoma this weekend, July 26 and 27! Come see the Bahá’í information booth.

Baha’is can serve their Faith at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel; at other international offices in Geneva and New York; at their National Office or regional offices, schools or institutes; or locally on Spiritual Assemblies and committees, and of course, by using their individual initiative to share the Word of Baha’u’llah with others.

Photo: the Workshop family at the Baha’i World Centre in 1984, with guest of honor, Counselor Anneliese Bopp

Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self.

Bahá’u’lláh

Photo courtesy of NASA and the National Space Science Data Center

Ethnic Fest
Saturday and Sunday, July 26 & 27 in Wright Park, Tacoma

Please come and support our biggest and most successful proclamation event of the year! Hundreds of people stop by to look, inquire, and to get balloons for their children and let them make race unity bracelets. We need booth volunteers to meet people and hand out literature; volunteers for the children’s table to help children assemble race unity bracelets; a set up crew Saturday morning and a take down crew Sunday afternoon; someone to rent the helium tank and bring and return it; helpers to fill balloons and to say prayers.