Participants at the ARTS EVENT arranged by the Council’s Committee for the Promotion of the Arts. One of the participants writes:
“I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and very well done to the Committee for the Promotion of the Arts for the event on 20th Sept. in Mount Zion House, Lurgan. The various workshops where everyone participated, were very informative and great fun and for some of us who thought ‘I couldn't do that’! We really surprised ourselves. So when the CPA organises its next event be sure not to miss out, you will come away enthused and with skills that will help to bring new dimensions and joy to the 19 Day Feasts and Reflection Meetings in your Cluster.”
RJ
Recently Newtownards community had the great pleasure of hosting the talented duo from Tralee, Gerry O'Mahoney and Tony McGinley. Tony kicked the evening off with a thought-provoking PowerPoint presentation. This dealt with magnetism, illustrating in a fun way the need to magnetise our souls to ignite the powers of attraction. Gerry, a professional artist talked about the importance of the arts. He had brought along a selection of his work in which he used the writings in an artistic form in his paintings. Tony meanwhile played some of his own compositions on the keyboard which had been transported in its 'coffin'. The evening was a lot of fun and great craic, very much enjoyed by everyone present. We look forward to their next visit.
YJ
In Prague, at this time of the year, it's extremely cold. So why did I, Soha, along with Nason, take a trip there from 13 to 16 November? For the European National Youth Committees Conference. Representatives from all of the National Youth Committees in Europe attended this with a profound enthusiasm, and a deep commitment and desire to serve the Cause of God in their regions. Imagine the scene: over 100 youth from all of the different European countries socialising and having fun with the spirit of joy that the Baha'i Faith brings.
The purpose was to train our Youth committees to help raise up the youth in their regions and to help provide them with as much encouragement as possible so that they could be ‘outward-looking’ and could be focused on bringing their non-Baha'i friends into the Five core activities of the Five Year Plan. The programme adopted an extremely positive attitude and atmosphere and the amazing experience I was having was topped off on the second day when we received a letter SIGNED by the Universal House of Justice. We studied this letter, which urged us to be ‘outward-looking’ and to ‘consider how to draw non Baha'i youth into the three core activities of the plan’. This made me, along with everyone else feel more privileged than ever, and made me want to come home to serve the Cause in this way straight away.
SG
Stuart Palin, Belfast, spotted this interesting Website at http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/good.html There is discussion about the ten most evil people and ten most good people in history. We may not agree with it all—it’s not a Bahá'í site—the interesting thing is that Bahá'u'lláh is placed number two on the “most good” list.
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