A Framework for Community Building

Bahá’ís believe lasting social change starts at the neighborhood level as well as other social spaces where relationships are built based on love and mutual respect. In these spaces across the globe small gatherings in community centers and homes are held with opportunities for all age groups to grow together. All our welcome to engage community building activities. After exploring this page, its links and videos, please visit our Contact Us page if you are interested in participating.

Devotional Meetings

Service and worship are at the heart of the pattern of community life that Bahá’ís around the world are trying to bring into being. Prayer is integral to Bahá’í life, whether at the level of the individual, the community, or the institutions.

Children’s Classes

Bahá’ís see the young as the most precious treasure a community can possess. In them are the promise and guarantee of the future. Yet, in order for this promise to be realised, children need to receive spiritual nourishment. In a world where the joy and innocence of childhood can be so easily overwhelmed with the pursuit of materialistic ends, the moral and spiritual education of children assumes vital importance.

Junior Youth Groups

Young people falling between the ages of 12 and 15 and representing a transition from childhood to youth, young adolescents—referred to as “junior youth” in the Bahá’í Faith—experience rapid physical, intellectual, and emotional changes. The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program is a neighborhood program where they can develop the powers of the soul and mind that not only enable them to transcend challenges they are facing but also be active contributors to building a better society.

Developing the Capacity of Youth

Efforts of the Bahá’í community to contribute to the empowerment of young people are guided by an evolving conceptual framework that views youth not as mere recipients of services, but as protagonists of change in their own right — with the capacity to make a vital contribution to the fortunes of humanity. Our understanding of human nature and human purpose is central to our conceptual framework and imbue our actions to promote youth empowerment.

Study Circles

Imagine an ongoing conversation taking place among friends in thousands upon thousands of social spaces—neighborhoods, villages, schools, universities, and workplaces—concerned with contributing to the advancement of civilization through the application of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings such as consultation, equality of men and women, the elimination of all prejudices and more.

Social Action

Bahá’í efforts of social action seek to promote the social and material well-being of people of all walks of life, whatever their beliefs or background. Such efforts are motivated by the desire to serve humanity and contribute to constructive social change. Together they represent a growing process of learning concerned with the application of the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, along with knowledge accumulated in different fields of human endeavour, to social reality.

Participation in the Discourses of Society

Bahá’u’lláh counselled Bahá’ís to “Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.” As such, Bahá’ís throughout the world—both individually and collectively—strive to become involved in the life of society, working shoulder to shoulder with all people and divers groups to contribute to the advancement of material and spiritual civilization.

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