1st stop: Ottawa
Written by ry on July 28th, 2008
I’ve been in Ottawa for a couple of days now hanging out with a group of about 20 Baha’is who are doing community outreach in a neighbourhood called Bayshore. They’ve been organizing devotional meetings, study groups and classes for children. Here a few of the participants take an opportunity to reflect on the people that they’d talked to that day as well as plan for the evening children’s class.
The children’s classes teach morals and virtues (like love, patience, honesty, unity and justice) using songs, stories, games and crafts. They’ve had 15-20 kids there the past couple of days, and while the kids laughed and played, the parents would come and chat with the organizers. Here michel goes through a book with a young boy. Because this is Ottawa, there is a real mix of english and french among both the organizers and the participants. This evening’s class was conducted in english and this young boy spoke only french, so Michel was taking a moment to translate this book for him.
At the devotional meetings, members of the community are invited to come together and say prayers and read holy writings from any of the world’s religions. This one was pretty chill, and after praying and meditating together, people hung out and had tea and chatted for a while. Nothing like praying together to build unity in a community, no matter what religious background we all come from.
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