week-end 11/12-04-09

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one enrollment to-day

Congratulation to all the teachers participants of to-day and all the friends of the cluster for their support and prayers , we had a great time talking teaching and sharing with unity love and laughter all the day
we invite all friends to join in sunday 12 04-09
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NEWS NEWS

THE AGENCIES OF CLUSTER ONE
MEET WITH ALL LSA'S THIS AFTERNOON 10H APRIL AT 500PM AT PORT LOUIS BAHAI CENTRE

MEMO
Teaching meeting place at FI HOUSE SAT 11 AND SUNDAY 12th AT 9.30am

ACTIVITIES

Port louis LSA MEETING MONDAY 06-04-09

Firesides Tuesday 7-04-09 at 19.30 pm
place --Michel house
place ---Jose mootoo place at 19 30pm

Wednesday 08-04-09 19days feast

Thursday 09-04-09
fireside Jose Mootoo sister-in law place

INTENSIVE TEACHING MEETING WEEK-DAYS
FROM 6 APRIL TO 9TH APRIL MEETING PLACE BAILLACHE FAMILY

other days meeting place at theBahai centre then proceed to the teaching area

week-end 11 and 12 th april meeting place FI KUNDASSAMY

"Let Them Not Underestimate the Power Inherent in the System..."

"Let Them Not Underestimate the Power Inherent in the System..."
The more we taught, the more we realized an important part of
teaching is the debriefing time. The teaching teams came together
after teaching and talked about lessons learned. We analyzed the
teams' successes

The core team realized that reflection gatherings were our lifeline
to replenish our spirits, our enthusiasm, and the human resources.
They're also an opportunity to keep thefriends up to date on the
goals, the successes, the learning, and upcoming plans"."

Another component that is key to the success of an intensive program
of growth is prayer.
We realized that there is no such thing as
praying too much.

We would pray before we went teaching, when we
returned, and around neighborhoods. Individuals who stayed back at
the homes that were used as gathering points would pray while others
went out and taught.

SUNDAY 5TH APRIL

IMAGE SPEAK LOWDER THAN WORDS

"Now is the time, O ye beloved of the Lord, for ardent endeavor.

Struggle ye, and strive. And since the Ancient Beauty was exposed by day and night on the field of martyrdom, let us in our turn labor hard, and hear and ponder the counsels of God; let us fling away our lives, and renounce our brief and numbered days. Let us turn our eyes away from empty fantasies of this world's divergent forms, and serve instead this pre-eminent purpose, this grand design. Let us not, because of our own imaginings, cut down this tree that the hand of heavenly grace hath planted; let us not, with the dark clouds of our illusions, our selfish interests, blot out the glory that streameth from the Abhá Realm. Let us not be as barriers that wall out the rolling ocean of Almighty God. Let us not prevent the pure, sweet scents from the garden of the All-Glorious Beauty from blowing far and wide. Let us not, on this day of reunion, shut out the vernal downpour of blessings from on high. Let us not consent that the splendors of the Sun of Truth should ever fade and disappear. These are the admonitions of God, as set forth in His Holy Books, His Scriptures, His Tablets that tell out His counsellings to the sincere. "The glory rest upon you, and God's mercy, and God's blessings."

(‘Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, pp. 275-276)

It is at such times that the friends of God avail themselves of the occasion, seize the opportunity, rush forth and win the prize. If their task is to be confined to good conduct and advice, nothing will be accomplished. They must speak out, expound the proofs, set forth clear arguments, draw irrefutable conclusions establishing the truth of the manifestation of the Sun of Reality." (‘Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, no. 212, p. 280)

"Then look thou not at the degree of thy capacity, look thou at the boundless favor of Bahá'u'lláh; all-encompassing is His bounty, and consummate His grace." (‘Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, no. 153, p. 188)

"Turn thy face toward the Kingdom of God, ask for the bestowals of the Holy Spirit, speak, and the confirmations of the Spirit will come." (‘Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, no. 153, p. 188)

"O ye beloved of God! Repose not yourselves on your couches, nay bestir yourselves as soon as ye recognize your Lord, the Creator, and hear of the things which have befallen Him, and hasten to His assistance. Unloose your tongues, and proclaim unceasingly His Cause. This shall be better for you than all the treasures of the past and of the future, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth." (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 330)

"If the friends always waited until they were fully qualified to do any particular task, the work of the Cause would be almost at a standstill! But the very act of striving to serve, however unworthy one may feel, attracts the blessings of God and enables one to become more fitted for the task.

"Today the need is so great on the part of humanity to hear of the Divine Message, that the believers must plunge into the work, wherever and however they can, heedless of their own shortcomings, but ever heedful of the crying need of their fellow-men to hear of the teachings in their darkest hour of travail."

(From a letter dated 4 May 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, published in Teaching the Bahá'í Faith, no. 104, p. 72)

4th APRIL

meeting place at MICHEL Reddy house at 9.30 am

RESOURCE PERSON HELPING CLUSTER ONE

VISITING PORT LOUIS