Community Building in the Suburbs Part 2: Impact on Families

Participants of study circles in the neighbourhood speak about the impact of the core activities on their families.

Doriane And Friends In Burnaby

A group of Baha'is in Burnaby reached out to meet some of the newcomers to their city and engage in meaningful conversations.

Community Building in the Suburbs

Celeste and Joe longed to serve their community. They decided to offer a class for the spiritual education of children at their local library.
9 months ago

Eight years ago, Celeste and Joe Bancheri had a longing to start activities that would serve their community. Because they had a young grandchild, they decided to offer a class for the spiritual education of children at their local library. Working with their grandchild, they invited children to the class. Soon they found that the loving friendships they built with the children and parents would allow them to move the class to their home. Conversations with parents and friends led to a need to start a gathering that would provide spiritual sustenance to adults in the community, so they started a devotional gathering.

1 years ago

One of the elements of a children’s class that helps develop the spiritual faculties of children are stories. Among the many spiritual faculties that lessons try to develop are; imagination, intuition, perception and memory, along with virtues that have been deposited into the reality of the soul like love, generosity, justice and kindness. Many of the lessons include a story about the life of ‘Abdu’l-Baha.

1 years ago

Toronto, Ontario, 25 October 2010 (CBNS) – Two years ago, a few friends started a class on a straw mat in a park. The children who joined didn’t come to study typical subjects like math or science. Instead, they started learning how to think about spiritual principles like love, generosity and patience and apply them to their daily lives.

A Glimpse Into Mornelle’s Children’s Class

Every Monday a group of children in the Mornelle neighbourhood rush their dinners and eagerly prepare to attend their weekly children's class.
1 years ago

On Monday, we visited a neighbourhood children’s class in Toronto. Crystal and Samin -who are from British Columbia- started the class two years ago when they came to Toronto to study. The class is with children in their apartment building. Over time they have gotten to know and love the children and their families and now feel very connected to the community.

Surya's Story

Surya shares the story of how she joined the junior youth group in her neighbourhood and began to learn to express herself with greater clarity.
2 yearss ago

Transforming Neighbourhoods is under construction. Our website has been redesigned and slowly you will begin to see new features. We are hoping to use this blog to inform you of these changes.
Since we live in such a vast country, there are many places where we can’t go, so we thought that maybe we could tell some of those stories here on this blog. This will also be a place where we will inform you of upcoming videos.