The Great Water Walk is Back!

The annual Fernwood school fundraiser is up and coming again and the children's class has taken on fundraising with gusto this year. They baked more cookies, made more signs, flags, pamphlets and took to the Saturday market and earned $272! So wonderful to see the enthusiasm for service in all the young ones who participated. This year, they have decided to try to reach the goal of raising $900, which is enough to build one well in India. So they will be back at it again this weekend. 

So, So Powerful!

"So Powerful is the light of unity, that it can illuminate the whole earth."

Special thanks to Shadi Talouie-Wallace for singing with us, and Jason Bienia for coming up with the great tune! 

We learned about the life of Jesus, and had a blast singing two new songs.

Abraham and Food Bank Volunteer Appreciation

This week we learned about Abraham (and the king Nimrod), and we also were able to bake cookies and make a card to send to the Food Bank volunteers, thanking them for their service.

Táhirih "The Pure One"

We will be learning more about spiritual figures from history this year in children's classes, focussing mainly on the manifestations of God (e.g. Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and Bahá’u’lláh). This class however, focussed on Táhirih (the name given by Bahá’u’lláh means "Pure One"), who's thirst for spiritual knowledge started her on a path that resulted in her becoming a champion for equality in a time when women were anything but considered equal nearly 200 years ago.

Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh

Thanks to the families that joined in our celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of  Bahá’u’lláh!

Cooperation in Action

The theme was cooperation, and we spent a wonderful time putting together this beautiful puzzle, singing,  and playing the ever popular game: caring for the sick.

Fundraising for the Great Water Walk

This past weekend, we decided to try to help out with Fernwood Elementary's Great Water Walk fundraiser for Children's Classes.

“For the past 12 years, Fernwood has been supporting SOPAR’s village well programme in Andhra Pradesh, India. During that time, the money we have raised has helped over 4600 people in 26 villages attain clean, safe water close to their homes.”

We all worked on baking cookies and making signs to bring to the Market. It truly was a wonderful experience and we raised $111 for Great Water Walk! Thanks to all the children, parents and grandparents who helped make it such a success.