Local Baha’i Events Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth and Baha’u’llah and the Birth of the Bab:

Saturday, October 21at Alverno College, 3400 S 43rd St, Milwaukee, WI 53234.  A presentation   including performances by a number of Baha’i musicians.  The event is co-hosted by the Milwaukee and Wauwatosa Baha’i communities. More details to come.

Sunday, October 22 at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Mitchell Park at 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield WI 53045.  The Mayor of Brookfield and members of various churches will be joining us for a musical presentation hosted by the Baha’is of Brookfield and sponsored by the Baha’is of Waukesha. More details to come.

Those assisting with the Area Teaching Committee for Cluster
#22/Milwaukee County, are delighted to share that the study of Book
Five: Releasing The Powers of Junior Youth will be held this July in
our Cluster! This will begin on Saturday July 8th from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. at a home in Wauwatosa (to be determined) and continue for
the other Saturdays in July (8, 15, 22 & 29). This plan follows our
engagement with the Junior Youth Program development in Madison as
well as the study at UWM of several youth on this same Ruhi Book Five.
We are excited to open this opportunity to all who want to understand
this exciting program and ‘to examine the forces shaping their society
and their role in contributing to its constructive transformation
through service’. So all ages are invited to share in this new level
of understanding; no matter if one is going to become a tutor or an
animator or just a supporter; we are all unitedly involved in
whatever way possible!
Please let us know of your interest.
Much love,
Ellen Parmelee
Cluster Institute Coordinator Milwaukee
parmelee.ellen@gmail.com

Meditation Skills for Baha’is: One Way to Increase a Hopeful Attitude

Sunday, June 25, 1 PM – 4 PM

Nelson Salisbury House (404 W. North St.), Whitewater, WI.

Learn how to increase your meditation skills as a Baha’i through the
use of various meditation techniques including grounding, guided
imagery, mental vacations, progressive muscle relaxation, deep
breathing, and movement/activity techniques. Dr. Popke is a
psychologist with a private practice in Whitewater, Wisconsin who has
been a Baha’i for over 40 years. She teaches these mindfulness
strategies to her clients and looks forward to sharing them with her
Baha’i family.

For more information contact Suzanne Popke at intsim@idcnet.com

Unit Convention for the newly revised unit will be held on Sat. 9/30 at the Unity Church inWauwatosa.  The Baha’is of Milwaukee will be hosting.  More information to be provided at a later date.

Online registration is open, and you are warmly invited to attend!

All across the country, Bahá’ís and friends are working together to create new communities, fostering love and fellowship with all! At Green Lake this year, we hope to explore what our hopes are for our families, in this ever changing and evolving national landscape.

As mainstage speaker, we are fortunate to have Dr. Robert Henderson joining us! Also sharing their talents with us is singer Shadi Toloui Wallace, and husband and wife duo Genevieve and Eric Dozier. The weekend will be intertwined with interactive art and participatory music, as well as workshops on a variety of topics!

We encourage you to invite your friends! All first times visitors will receive half off their registration fee!

So register today! Early bird pricing is available now through July 15. All attendees will leave with a renewed zeal that will inspire them to reach greater heights of consecration and service.

Discover the latest news about the school as it unfolds on the http://greenlakebahaischool.org/ website or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenLakeBahaiConference

For accommodations—camping, cabins, dorms, and hotels rooms—contact the Green Lake Conference Center at (920) 294-3323 or http://www.glcc.org and make your reservations today!

With love and enthusiasm,

The Green Lake Baha’i School Committee

An agency of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States
https://www.instagram.com/greenlakebahaischool/

Friday, July 14, 2017 – Sunday, July 16, 2017

THEME: Hope and the Family

Join the Baha’is and the friends of the Baha’i Faith for a loving and nurturing weekend. The school curriculum will focus on the institution of the family and its members’ spiritual and economic hopes. All will study cooperation, reciprocity, fellowship, and other spiritual concepts modeled in stories of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. School participants will also consider the Baha’i Law of Huquq’ullah as an act that revitalizes an individual’s or family’s spiritual connection to Baha’i institutions and as a reform to the imbalanced economics of our world. All are welcome! Through Forum Theater all will get the theatrical opportunity to transform uncomfortable conversational situations into loving, meaningful exchanges. Rhythm and song will also be incorporated into the weekend.

We hope to see you!

Sincerely,
Heartland Baha’i School Committee

For more information, please email heartland-reg@nbs.usbnc.org

Dear friends,

Would you like your middle school students to be immersed in a Baha’i
learning environment for a week? They meet students their own age that
are Baha’is and close friends of the Faith. They learn about planning
devotional meetings, engaging their friends in Junior Youth groups,
Baha’i teachings, history, principals of the faith. There is a very
strong arts program with music, dance, visual arts and
storytelling…. as well as sports and recreation. Music, prayers…
delicious meals and comfortable accommodations.

The program is July 8 – 15, 2016 in Dallas Texas.  It is sponsored by
the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Highland Village, TX.  It is
our 11th year to do the program.  We have about 20 spots available for
students who are finishing 6th, 7th, or 8th grades this spring,
entering 7th, 8th, and 9th grades in the fall.

To register, please fill out the attached form and email it to cftprogram@gmail.com.   For more information, call Ellen Hakala at 214-727-3404 or go to ourwebsite at CFTPRogram.com.

Then please write two checks to pay:  The first dated today for $175, the
second dated July 1 for $425.  We need everyone to pre-pay, or make
payment arrangements (or use paypal to pay by credit card but the fees
are very high for us) before the first day of the program.

Can you come?  Please register ASAP!  We are more than half full!!! We
want to have 45 to 48 students please!!!  We have about 30 as of
today.

For more information, call Ellen Hakala at 214-727-3404 or go to our
website at CFTPRogram.com.

Thank you !

The Muslim community in Brookfield have invited interested individuals to
“Interfaith Iftar” next Sunday, June 11, at 7:00 PM.

Last year Baha’is from different communities participated and enjoyed
fellowship with our Muslim friends.

This a a great opportunity to learn more about the significance of
Ramadan, the month of fasting in Islam.

Below please find details of the program:

Good morning all,

I hope that you all are well. As many of you may know, the Muslim
community will begin their observation of fasting during the holy
month of Ramadan next week. I am writing to cordially invite you all
to join us at ISM Brookfield in breaking our fast on Sunday, June 11th
at 7:00pm. There will be a short presentation about Islam as well as a
description of Ramadan and its importance to us. Please bring your
family, friends, and congregations to this enlightening event. Dinner
will be served after sunset. Please RSVP at
tinyurl.com/noorinterfaithiftar.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Sincerely,

Noman Hussain
Imam/Religious Director
ISM Brookfield-Masjid al-Noor

Sunday, June 25, 1 PM – 4 PM

Nelson Salisbury House (404 W. North St.), Whitewater, WI.

Learn how to increase your meditation skills as a Baha’i through the
use of various meditation techniques including grounding, guided
imagery, mental vacations, progressive muscle relaxation, deep
breathing, and movement/activity techniques.  Dr. Popke is a
psychologist with a private practice in Whitewater, Wisconsin who has
been a Baha’i for over 40 years.  She teaches these mindfulness
strategies to her clients and looks forward to sharing them with her
Baha’i family.

For more information contact Suzanne Popke at intsim@idcnet.com