building a children’s and junior youth neighborhood team · your neighborhood meetup 31 facebook...
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Team Building 3Apply of Teachings 4Personal Teaching Plan 5Knowledge effect transformation 6Summary of Books – Services 7List of Teachers and Assistants 8List of Children and Junior Youth 9Neighborhood Outreach Invitation 10Neighborhood Outreach Teachers/Planners 11Purposeful discussions 12Field Trips, Materials, Food 13Service Projects 14Adult English Classes 15Some Service Project Ideas 16LSA, ATC, Fascilitators etc 17Qualitative Progress 18Books, Songs, Materials 19
Attendance Summary 20Neighborhood Bahai’s Core Activities 21Budget considerations 22Address concerns of society 23List of friends 24List of information we send to our friends 25Finding some receptive seeker 26Some expansion campaign methods 27Neighborhood or friends survey 28Socio Economic info on your neighborhood 29Religious background in your neighborhood 30 A phone caring outreach into your neighborhood 31YOUR neighborhood MeetUp 31Facebook in your neighborhood 32Virtual accompaniment with our new believers 36
Team Building
Outreach into the neighborhood with
home visits
Devotionals and
Study Circles
Food, Materials, transportation, outings or field
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Children and Junior Youth
Teachers
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Service
Apply the Teachings to improve some aspects of social or economic life of a population,
apply His teachings intelligently to the life of humanity.
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…”Irrespective of its scope and scale, all social action seeks to apply the teachings and principles of the Faith to improve some aspect of the social or economic life of a population…”…Access to knowledge is the right of every human being….
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…Only as effort is made to draw on insights from His Revelation, to tap into the accumulating knowledge of the human race, to apply His teachings intelligently to the life of humanity, and to consult on the questions that arise will be necessary learning occur and capacity be developed.
Paragraph 25Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Letter 2010
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…an environment conducive to the spiritual empowerment of individuals, who will see themselves as active agents of their own learning, as protagonists of a constant effort to apply knowledge to effect individual and collective transformation. Failing this, no matter how many study circles are formed in clusters, the force necessary to propel change will not be generated.
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Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Letter 2010
Apply knowledge to effectindividual and collective transformation
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Teachers and assistants
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List of children or Junior Youth
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Supporters for “Neighborhood Outreach”teachers and planners
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Friendships are formed, questions arise out of practice, purposeful discussions with people from every walk of life
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…the urge to convert it into a formula overcome, it gives rise to a conversation between two souls- a conversation distinguished by the depth of understanding achieved and the nature of the relationship established…..the conversation continues beyond the initial encounter and veritable friendships are formed….a direct teaching effort of this kind can become the catalyst for an enduring process of spiritual transformation…
Paragraph 4…the task before the friends this coming year is to teach within one or more receptive populations, employing a direct method in their exposition of the fundamentals of the Faith.
Paragraph 6…there in the field of service, knowledge is tested, questions arise out of practice, and new levels of understanding are achieved.
Paragraph 9…the rise in capacity to teach the Faith directly and to enter into purposeful discussion on themes of spiritual import with people from every walk of life….
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Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Message 2010
Supporters for Neighborhood Services such as field trips, materials, food, transportation etc.
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Service Projects
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Project Address Contact Person Email/Ph # Comments
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Adult English Classes
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Name Address Email Phone # Native Language
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Some Service Project Ideas
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• Food Bank
• Literacy Support
• ESL support
• Baha’i Community Services
• Other
• International Virtual Firesides
• Accompanying your friends or new believers virtually with in the country
• Other
• Pea Patch –Gardening skills
• Peace and Friendship making
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• Schools
• Organizations
• MeetUp
• Churches
• Other
Public Speaking
Global
Sustainability
Volunteering
In the Community around you
Virtual Direct
Teaching and making friends
List of ATC, LSA, Co-Ordinators, facilitators etc.
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Gains contingent on qualitative progress, measured by the vitality of the spiritual and social life, consult on the questions that arise.
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….While striving to increase the numbers of its participants, the institute as a structure…..must lay equal stress on the effectiveness of the system in its entirety, for, in the final analysis, sustained quantitative gains will be contingent on qualitative progress…..he or she should arrange periodic gatherings for them to reflect on their endeavors.
Paragraph 12…the Local Spiritual Assemblies….to mobilize the energies of the believers, and to forge an environment that is spiritually edifying….its strength must be measured, to a large extent, by the vitality of the spiritual and social life of the community it serves…Indeed, the Assembly’s proper involvement with the Plan becomes crucial to every attempt to embrace large numbers - itself a requisite for the manifestation of the full range of its powers and capacities.
Paragraph 22…Only as effort is made to draw on insights from His Revelation, to tap into the accumulating knowledge of the human race, to apply His teachings intelligently to the life of humanity, and to consult on the questions that arise will be necessary learning occur and capacity be developed.
Paragraph 25Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Letter 2010
List of Books, Songs, Materials, Videos/Music, Quotes etc
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Attendance Summary
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Teacher(s) : Date: Locations:
Baha’is residing in the neighborhood and their Core Activities
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Budget Considerations
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Knowledge will aid them in addressing the challenges they face, address the concerns of society around them.
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…Yet every human being and every group of individuals, irrespective of whether they are counted among His followers, can take inspiration from His teachings, benefiting from whatever gems of wisdom and knowledge will aid them in addressing the challenges they face.
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Outreach into the neighborhood
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…the friends working at the grassroots of the community will draw on this experience and capacity as they strive to address the concerns of society around them.”
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Our traveling Baha’i Neighborhood Service booth sharing information on our many services we have to offer. We also make direct teaching presentations. Our video screen and laptop is powered by a quiet battery …even our tea pot and music.
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Social Outreach
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Booth Location contacts
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Make a map of your teamblock or Neighborhood
Map out where your Baha’is are residingInclude here the location of your children’s and JY class locationBreak down the map into smaller section where you will be starting
your Outreach Campaign to attract children and build a community of interestInsert your devotional and study circle locations
Virtual accompaniment with your new believersand their family and friends
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As you can see we are meeting with the family or friends of some of our new believers in a variety of cities or even countries. We do this via Skype and Acrobat Connect Now. We have all the “How to’s” ready to go. All you need is a computer, a microphone and hopefully a webcam (optional).This way we can connect in real time with their loved ones and start to share the good news.
Welcoming our new believers Barbiand George – Monmoth,Oregon
Knoxville, TN
Sylvania, Ohio
Seattle, WA
Brazil
We can talk and meet each other from around the world .
Talent, OR
Wilmington, North Carolina
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