Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Training of Children Classes on 8 September





A training was held for teacher's of children classes on September 15th. There are a number of neighboorhood children classes starting up in Harris Cluster.

Sharpening Skills of participants on Sat. 8 Sept









The Participants got together for a training on Ruhi Book 2 deepening themes to sharpen their skills on presenting the Eternal Covenant and the Life of Baha'u'llah. Cheryl Hanks and Collin Nasseri did a great job of serving as facilitators. For more trainings, contact your cluster institute coordinators.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Intensive Program of Growth cycle from 1 to 16 Sept.

Dear Friends,

The Harris Cluster is launching another Intensive Program of Growth cycle from 1 to 16 September. This two week period is to really intensify our activities. The goal of this intensive is to increase the number of community of interest by 50%. We currently have 84 friends, neighbors, co-workers, and families in the core activities! But for this month, we want to increase to 126 in total. That means we need all of your help in inviting 42 new seekers to the core activities such as a devotional, fireside, children class, or junior youth group.

How will you do this? Well, one must pray and search out souls who are receptive to the call.

Who will do this? All of us from children to adults!!!

Why? Because we have a treasure and we need to share it with the rest of harris cluster.

By the way, if you have a teaching team partner, it makes this process easy. So, we have 2 weeks to work really hard.

Please share with us your experiences and pictures so we can post it!!!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Devotional on Sunday, 26 August at 10:30 AM

A beautiful devotional and songs by Eric Dozier was held at the Houston Baha'i Center. Eric not only sang and gave us inspiration but shared how he became a Baha'i. There were lots of friends of the Faith and we all enjoyed a diversity of all sorts of backgrounds which Baha'u'llah says: "we are the flowers of one garden and the fruits of one tree." Well, let me tell you, it really was wonderful to witness as there were 175 to 200 people in attendance!

Here are a few songs that Eric Dozier sang with pictures of the crowd:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6HnxNExkDW4 Praises by Eric on Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/v/Vtp45BWRWvM This little light of mine by Eric

Devotionals are held every Sunday at the Houston Baha'i Center at 10:30 as well as there are neighborhood devotionals, children classes, middle school age group classes, and study circles.

Tutor Gathering on Saturday, 25 Aug

For those who missed it and yes a lot of you missed it, we had the good fortune of having the talented Eric Dosier who sang to all tutors as a reward for their hard word. It was sponsored by the OAT's Training Institute. There was a short powerpoint presentation giving a picture of what is taking place in our cluster (over 53% active tutors and a nice increase in study circles as well as participants!!!), Raymond spoke about the initiative taking place, and introduced Eric Dozier. We sang a lot!!!

Check it out by clicking on the links below:

http://www.youtube.com/v/ozfw1CM4OqY Allah’u’Abha song by Eric Dozier

http://www.youtube.com/v/AE25CdEjuH4 Shine your light on me by Eric

http://www.youtube.com/v/hB0LHjmbe3s Praises by Eric

We look forward to seeing you all at the next tutor gathering! For any questions, please call Farida Johnson, Quddus Nasseri, and Samarih Monajjem.

Reflection Gathering on Friday, 24 Aug

We had a great Reflection Gathering where we planned our next intensive cycle for growth from 1 to 16 September. For those who missed it, here is an introduction to get the crowed pumped, the second is a skit, and third is a new believer speaking:


http://www.youtube.com/v/XYDp14yDeAQ Quddus, Nagin, Ehsan hyping up at RF

http://www.youtube.com/v/F1JzX1AvoEk skit at RF by Ehsan, Sherwin, and Nagin

http://www.youtube.com/v/kxW4Xd1EF4M Video of new believer

Enjoy!!!!

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Ruhi Book 6 - Teaching the Cause!




This group is learning how to become effective teachers of the Cause by meeting each Wednesdays at 8 PM. It is a lot of fun to be with this group who enjoys gaining the insights, skills and abilities to teach as well as time for eating and socializing. The atmosphere is full of love and spirituality.
If you are interest in joining a Ruhi Book group, please call Farida Johnson, Quddus Nasseri, or Samarih Monajjem.