Stories

Open House at Bahá’í National Centre welcomes visitors
Since the Universal House of Justice announced that a National Bahá’í House of Worship is to be erected in Canada, hundreds of friends have visited the Temple site and Hazíratu’l-Quds.

Friends in Yukon gather
In Tagish, Yukon, friends, including many First Nations friends, gathered to share stories and reflect on their role in carrying out the directives of the Tablets of the Divine Plan.

Deepening our understanding of Ruhi Book 1
A reflection from tutors of the Springdale neighbourhood in Brampton, Ont. regarding their participation in a tutor seminar this summer held at the Don Valley Educational Centre near Toronto, Ont.

Children’s class forges deeper connection between families
Parents in the Bayside Village neighbourhood discuss the impact of children’s classes on their lives and families.

Learning to work with families in the Overbrook neighbourhood
In the Overbrook neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ont., a family’s efforts over the course of a few cycles “significantly widened the embrace” of community-building activities “to many nearby households.”

Pioneering orientations continue in Ontario
The orientations, organized by the Ontario Pioneering Task Force, support friends interested in contributing to the pioneering needs of the Nine Year Plan.

First pioneering orientation takes place in Vancouver
In response to the House of Justice’s call for Nine Year Plan pioneers, friends in British Columbia gathered for an orientation that focused on the spiritual and practical aspects of pioneering.

A space to call their own
In the Edmonds neighbourhood in Burnaby, B.C., a process was set in motion to find a property to hold the growing number of local core activities.

Canada’s Knights of Bahá’u’lláh
In its 30 December 2021 message, the Universal House of Justice said that the Nine Year Plan “will make demands of the individual believer, the community, and the institutions reminiscent of the demands that the Guardian made of the Bahá’í world at the outset of the Ten Year Crusade.”

A tutor from Montreal reflects on the challenges youth face with education
Rhadika hopes that the youth she tutors in the Ruhi institute may develop a love for learning.