Multicultural Skills for Baha’is and Friends

Are you culturally competent? Do cultural misunderstandings hinder your relationships with others? Multicultural skills are important for everyone but especially for Baha’is.

“We stand for unity through diversity and we hold in contempt every attempt at uniformity…” Shoghi Effendi

Cultural competence begins with knowing who YOU are. By understanding your own cultural identity and how experiences have shaped your beliefs, you can start exploring multicultural areas that you can expand and grow upon. This gathering for teens and adults will include videos, handouts, and discussion. Facilitated by Whitewater psychologist and Baha’i – Dr. Suzanne Popke (www.dpopketherapy.com).

Please RSVP by email so there are enough handouts for everyone:
intsim@idcnet.com

Date: Oct. 13, Sunday
Time: 1 PM to 4 PM
Place: Historic Nelson Salisbury House at 404 W. North St.,Whitewater, WI (public parking across the street in lot next to
Whitewater Cultural Arts Center). Use house front entrance or side entrance which has a handicap ramp.

Unit Conventions in the US are coming up the first weekend in October. Voters (all adult registered Baha’is in good standing) should have recently received their ballot materials – hard copy mailed – from the National Spiritual Assembly. Households with voters should receive invitations from a host Assembly to attend their particular voting Unit’s convention shortly, if they have not arrived already.

If none of your materials have arrived. and especially if you moved during the past year, please check your membership record at National,and verify your convention location/date/host, at

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Save these dates and begin to think of family, colleagues, friends and neighbors who would love to share this important date with us and learn about the transformation of society set in motion by these twin revelations from the Almighty.

Saturday, October 26 – Celebration in New Berlin with Bicentennial Choir and more. New Berlin West High School, 18695 W. Cleveland Ave. Time and details TBA.

Sunday Afternoon, October 27 – Celebration in Milwaukee, afternoon program of readings and musical performances, children’s activity, fun for all. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks served. The event starts at 1:30 pm, in Lampe Recital Hall at Alverno College, 3400 South 43rd Street, Milwaukee, WI. Please note that

Tuesday Evening, October 29 – Birth of the Bab celebrated with soup, bread and dessert. The event starts at 5 pm at the Shorewood Village Center (downstairs from the Shorewood public library), 3920 N. Murray Avenue. There will be a showing of the new film commissioned by the Universal House of Justice. Sponsored by the Baha’is of Shorewood and Milwaukee.

Wednesday Evening, October 30 – Birth of Baha’u’llah celebration in Milwaukee, prayers and pizza and a little music. The event starts at 5 pm at the Bay View Library Community Room, 2566 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207

Milwaukee Cluster Baha’is,

Our next Milwaukee Cluster Meeting will be on Saturday, September 7. The event will start at 10 am and conclude at 1 pm. The event will take place at the Wauwatosa Public Library, 7635 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53213.

We will be discussing our local Baha’i activities of the past few months as well as the upcoming festivities for the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of the Bab. We will also be setting some goals for the next few months.

If you have any question or comments, please contact me at the email address below.

Thanks,
David C. Mueller
Area Cluster Coordinator
Chairperson, Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Milwaukee
mueller-david@sbcglobal.net

Greetings Friends, I have been asked to present the “12 Lessons – an
organized and systematic approach to studying the Law of Huqúqu’lláh”,
to be hosted in the Brookfield area starting this September.

Please let me know if you would be interested in attending these study
sessions. Generally, 4-5 sessions are required to complete the course
of study. This is a very comprehensive study. You will learn many
interesting aspects of the Law through these sessions. Details will
follow to those who might be interested.

Please reach out to me with your interest in attending or with other
questions you may have.

“The aim is to learn about how to participate in the material affairs
of society in a way that is consistent with the divine precepts and
how, in practical terms, collective prosperity can be advanced through
justice and generosity, collaboration and mutual assistance…. *

“Examining one’s life to determine what is a necessity and then
discharging with joy one’s obligation in relation to the law of
Huququ’llah is an indispensable discipline to bring one’s priorities
into balance, purify whatever wealth one possesses, and ensure that
the share which is the Right of God provides for the greater good. At
all times, contentment and moderation, benevolence and fellow feeling,
sacrifice and reliance on the Almighty are qualities that befit the
God-fearing soul…. *

• Universal House of Justice Letter dated March 1st 2017

Contributing to the greater good.

Dan Conlon
Huqúqu’lláh Representative Wisconsin
danconlon9@gmail.com

In addition to the comprehensive “12 Lessons” other topics we might
consider studying a single session deepening:

Young Adult Deepening – Work, Wealth, Service

Living in a Material World While Developing Our Spiritual Self

Practicing the Law for today and Preparing a Will and Estate Planning

From the Same Dust’s next meeting is September 4 at 7 pm at Kathy Wurzer’s house.

Our purpose is to stimulate and animate a diverse and welcoming Baha’i community. At this meeting, we will be working collaboratively to set goals. We hope others will join us!

kmwurzer@gmail.com

The Baha’i Choir will be performing on October 26th, 2019 for the 200th anniversary of the Birth of the Bab Commemoration in New Berlin, WI. We have a critical need for additional voices; specifically, TENORS! But we are also recruiting BASSES, ALTOS and SOPRANOS.

Please contact Scott Lee at scottlee31@att.net if you have an interest. He will also provide you with scheduled rehearsal dates.

With Loving Baha’i Greetings,
Scott Lee

Feast of ‘Izzat / Might, Sunday morning, September 8th from 9:30 at the home of Rommy Rowhani, 3462 N. Bartlett Ave., Milwaukee.

Feast of Mashiyyat / Will, Saturday morning, September 28th 10:30 am at Martin Luther King Library community room, 310 W. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI 53212

From the Green Bay Baha’is:

Visit the Baha’i House of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Sunday, 27 October 2019
Join others on a chartered bus trip to the Baha’i House of Worship sponsored by the Baha’is of Green Bay, Wisconsin

Interested: Contact Cecilia Turriff at
or email at: cturriff@new.rr.com
Register and reserve a place now!!

Trip itinerary

6:45am First bus departure site: Riders meet at Park & Ride #05-02, 100 Lawrence Drive, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115, US Hwy 41 & Co G, Main St Exit #163

7:00am All riders on board! Bus departs.

tbd am Possible second pickup stop in the Oshkosh area, somewhere between Appleton and Fond du Lac.

11:00am Lunch break stop at Oasis off Interstate 94 in Lake Forest, Illinois. Participants will have time to stretch, eat their own bag lunch or purchase food at Oasis food court.

11:30am Bus departs for House of Worship

12:00pm Arrive at House of Worship

12:30pm Devotions at House of Worship

1:15pm Introductory talk on the Baha’i Faith at the House of Worship

2:00pm Group tour of House of Worship, Visitor Center and Gardens

3:30pm Bus with all participants on board departs House of Worship

tbd pm Dinner stop (location to be selected by bus driver)

tbd pm Return bus stop for participants in Oshkosh area

8:00pm Return bus stop for remaining participants.

Note: Trip is chartered by Lamers Bus Lines. Professional driver, comfortable seating for 36 people with bathroom onboard! No smoking or glass bottles allowed in the coach.

Participants must register no later than October 6th!!