Town of Vienna Baha'i Newsletter November-December 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, November 7th, 9 AM to 12 noon: Meeting of Area LSAs with the LSA of Loudoun County and the NVBC Steering Committee to discuss the needs of the Center.

Saturday, November 7th, 3:30 PM: Memorial Service for Mr. Morad Hasel Mahboobi at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center.

Sunday, November 8th, 3:00 PM: Memorial Service for Mr. Parviz Dadressan at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center.

Wednesday, November 11th, 7 to 10 PM: Holy Day Celebration of the Birth of Baha'ullah at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center.

Sunday, November 15th, 1 PM: Tentative date for the start of junior youth group meetings for boys (ages between 11 and 13) with animators in our community. Also beginning soon: junior youth group meetings for girls with animator in our community. Details to follow.

Friday, November 20th, at 7:30 PM: Interfaith Devotional, sponsored by the Town of Vienna Baha'i community and the Northern Virginia Family Church, will be held at the Northern Virginia Bahai Center.

Sunday, November 22nd, at 4 PM: Memorial Service for Mrs. Maleheh Mohajeri, wife of Abbas, and mother of Nelufar, Armin, Arash, and Nagmeh, at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center.

Monday, November 23rd, 7:30 PM: Feast of Qawl (Speech) at the home of the Ferdowsi family.

Tuesday, December 1st, at 8 PM: LSA Meeting for the Town of Vienna at the home of the Ferdowsi family.

Note: The next Fairfax Cluster Reflections Gathering is scheduled for January 9, 2010(Location/time/details to follow).

COMMUNITY NEWS:

A loving welcome to the Town of Vienna Baha'i community to Lucas Fakembe who joins us from his years of service at the Bosch School in California and International Center in Haifa! Welcome back to the community to Andrew Scruggs who served with Lucas at the Bosch School!

Vahid and Barbara Alavian have arrived and settled in Uganda to begin their years of service for the World Bank (and the Baha'i Faith). Our thoughts and prayers are extended to our dynamic and sorely missed pioneering duo and to the friends in Uganda whom they will serve.

Plans are underway to begin not one but two junior youth groups in the Town of Vienna Baha'i community (one for boys and one for girls). The ATC has identified animators for each group. For details and schedules, please contact Carol Dunlap and Laurie Marek.

Our community and the Northern Virginia Family Church is co-sponsoring an Interfaith Devotional on the subject of "Gratitude" at the Northern Virginia Baha'i Center on Friday, November 20th, at 7:30 PM. This is a wonderful opportunity to pray and share experiences with friends from many religious backgrounds and spiritual paths. Please come and join us for this very special evening of prayer, music, and interfaith unity.