Monthly Archives: August 2017

Baha’i Unit Convention Saturday, September 30

Bahai Unit Convention September 30th 9am to 12:30pm-Wawautosa Wisconsin at Unity Church

Greeting from the Milwaukee Baha’i Assembly!

Milwaukee is honored to coordinate our new unit convention configuration!

Please share this information with your community!

Unit Convention will be Saturday September 30th from 9:00am to 12:30pm at the Unity Church in Wawautosa

Registration will start at 8:30am with devotions and program starting at 9am

Unity Church in Wawautosa

1717 N 73rd St, Milwaukee, WI 53213

8:30am Registration

9:00am to 12:30pm program

We will also have a fund raiser for the Baha’i Fund during the convention

Bring any Baha’i book for a book exchange. We will ask any one who takes a book to offer a donation to the fund box as payment.

 

Madison: Ruhi Book 3, Grade 2, August 12-13

Invitation to study Ruhi Book 3, Grade 2: Teaching Children’s Classes in
Madison Aug 12-13

Dearly loved Teachers of Spiritual Education for Children,

You are warmly invited to attend a Book 3 training for teachers of
Grade 2 on Saturday and Sunday, August 12 and 13, 2017. The weekend is
sponsored by members of the Training Institute in collaboration with
the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Madison, WI.

The study is designed to raise capacity for serving as a children’s
class teacher, as described and presented in Book 3, Grade 1:
*Teaching Children’s Classes*. It will be essential that you have
already studied Book 3 (in any of its versions) and have taught most
of the lessons of Grade 1 with children. Whether you have taught from
the original (orange covered) version, or have begun to teach with the
newer, pre-publication version of Grade 1 does not matter.

We will study portions of the recent Training Institute document from
the International Teaching Center, and focus on the teacher’s portions
of Book 3, Grade 1. The goal is to increase the number and quality of
teachers and to increase capacity of tutors to train any person,
Baha’i or not, youth or adult, desiring to serve as a teacher of
children’s spiritual education based on the Teachings of Baha’u’llah.

In September, there will be an opportunity to study Book 3, Grade 3
(dates TBD). The August and September gatherings will both be training
for teachers of Grades 2 and 3, as well as for tutors. Invitations and
registration will be sent out for the September gathering at a later
date.

Please register <https://goo.gl/forms/P8EGI0ymdInkIWKE2>

The study will take place *Saturday, August 12 and Sunday, August 13*
at the Madison Baha’i Center (324 W Lakeside St, Madison, WI 53715).
We will meet from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm on Saturday. Sunday we will begin
at 8:30 am and end at 12:00 pm. Lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch
Sunday (after we close), as well as light refreshments in the morning
and afternoon both days, will be provided. The Local Spiritual
Assembly of Madison will make arrangements for accommodations for
travelers and childcare needed for families traveling with children.
Please indicate your needs when completing registration
<https://goo.gl/forms/P8EGI0ymdInkIWKE2>.

Kindly bring this invitation to the attention of any in your community
who teach or have taught children’s classes. We look forward to
learning together!

With loving Baha’i greetings,

Elma Strom
Regional Training Institute Coordinator for Minnesota

Margaret Hetman
Cluster Institute Coordinator, MN-33 Hennepin County South

Suzanne Kinney
Secretary, Local Spiritual Assembly of Plymouth, MN

Waukesha Bicentennial Celebration – Actors Needed!!

Children and youth actors needed for “The Wonder of Atoms”, a play
written by Diane Johnson. Diane and Kathy Wurzer will co-direct the
production.

We need children and youth ages 6-16. Invite your friends! No
experience is needed.

The play will be rehearsed at the home of Sarahi Monterrey in
Waukesha. There will be 8 rehearsals the first 3
weeks in October.

The performance will be held at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the
Arts in Brookfield on Sunday, October 22. Participants must be
available for rehearsal that day at the center prior to the
performance.

A meeting at 10 am Saturday, August 19 at the Monterrey home will be
held to determine who will participate in the play. All interested
should be at that meeting. Bring your calendars to determine the
rehearsal dates.

If you are interested, but out of town on August 19, you may contact
Kathy Wurzer at kmwurzer@gmail.com.

We are also looking for a musician who plays the keyboard.

We need a logo – Can you help?

Calling all graphic artists. Dear artist friends, can you assist a
good cause?

“From the Same Dust,” a Baha’i group in Milwaukee cluster sponsored by
the Spiritual Assembly of Wauwatosa, needs a logo. We have
co-sponsored several events with the Zeidler Center and other groups.
Each group has their name and logo on the event program and poster,
but we have thus far only been listed by our name. Several new events
are in the planning stages. Help us step up our image so that next
time, we’ll have something that tells people who we are.

We are soliciting sketches and suggestions for a logo. It should be
scalable and suitable for use on both letterhead and posters. It
should ideally include our name, “From the Same Dust,” and the
tagline, “A Baha’i group.” It should represent in some way either our
purpose: to stimulate and animate a diverse and welcoming community,
or the principle that all of humanity is created from the same dust,
or give a sense of unity in diversity. Yet it needs to be small,
simple, and dignified. Some examples of logos are included below* to
give you an idea of what we are looking for. Sometimes, color and font
style alone convey the message of the group, sometimes an image adds
weight and balance.

We hope to have a logo ready by mid-September to be able to use it in
our co-sponsorship of a talk in early October. Anyone with interest in
this project could send us notice of their interest and preliminary
ideas by August 15th. We will promptly respond to any and all
suggestions.

Please reply to Matine Spence at mtspence1@yahoo.com or Kathy Wurzer at kmwurzer@gmail.com

Next “From the Same Dust Meeting” on Thursday, August 24th

We welcome all to our next meeting:

August 24th

6:30 pm

Kathy Wurzer’s home

kmwurzer@gmail.com

Our goal that evening will be to:

– study the writings/letters about oneness of humanity and racial unity

-discussion of how to share Baha’i knowledge of social/culture change with non-Baha’i groups

– practice elevated conversations

We hope you can join us!

Kathy

Ex Fabula Fellowship Applications open

Ex Fabula Fellows are community members who craft and tell personal
stories to inspire community-led dialogue around some of the most
pressing issues in the Greater Milwaukee area – segregation and
economic and racial inequality.

Applications for the 2017-18 cohort of Fellows will be accepted
through September 12, 2017. Any adult living in the Greater Milwaukee
area may apply. Individuals under 18 may apply with parental
permission. Learn more: www.exfabula.org/fellows

Since this is an oral storytelling project, you may opt to submit an
application verbally – in person, over the phone, or via audio file.
Contact Kennita at Kennita@exfabula.com or 414-502-9533 to arrange.

This Fellowship requires attendance at 6 workshops from 6 to 8 pm on
Wednesdays Oct 18, 25 and November 1, 8, 15 and 29, held at the
Zeidler Center for Public Discussion in Downtown Milwaukee.

Celebration of the bicentenary of Bahá’u’lláh’s Birth on Saturday, October 21, 2017

Please mark your calendars for an area-wide celebration of the bicentenary of Bahá’u’lláh’s Birth on Saturday, October 21, 2017!

The program will be at Alverno College, 3400 S 43rd St, Milwaukee from 3 to 7 pm. Food? Yes Music? Yes Learning, interaction, devotions, stories and new and old friends? Yes, of course
All ages are welcome and the event will be open to the public, so be encouraged to invite your friends, family and neighbors

What a great weekend and start to the next 100 years!

Hosts and sponsors:
Spiritual Assemblies of the Baha’is of Milwaukee and Wauwatosa