"Wherefore, O ye beloved of the Lord, bestir yourselves, do all in your power to be as one, to live in peace, each with the others: for ye are all the drops from but one ocean." – Abdu’l-Baha

Abdu'l-Baha, the Covenant, and Racial Justice

2025 Baha'i Summer School
Session 1: Sat June 28th - Wed July 2nd
Session 2: Wed July 2nd - Sun July 6th

We are pleased to continue to host our summer school at Seabeck Conference Center on the Hood Canal. To accommodate as many friends as possible, there will be two sessions of summer school in 2025. Each session runs 5 days/4 nights, with a maximum of 250 per session.

Registration opens Saturday March 22nd @10:00am PDT. Spots go quickly, particularly for the private bath lodges.

Keynote
Eric Dozier

Theme: 
Abdu'l-Baha, The Covenant, and Racial Justice

We are pleased to announce that Eric Dozier will be facilitating our adult classes. Eric will be drawing on his work as an anti-racist educator, blues and gospel singer songwriter, and member of the Baha'i Faith.

Graciously, he will also provide an Artistic class "Why We Sing: A Musical Exploration into Community Worship and Praise".

Special Guests

We are delighted to welcome Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, in coordination with the Patricia Locke Foundation. Louise was raised in the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun in the Yukon Territory of Canada. She will be leading storytelling classes as well as sharing from her Native ancestry. 

Jilla Simmons will lead classes on Mysticism in the Faith. Learn about some of the inner meanings of the symbols and metaphors in the Mystical Writings of our Faith, such as the many different stations of the Manifestations of God, what it means when the Bab and Baha'u'llah mention, "all the worlds of God",  how many worlds are there? Or what is in between when they say, "Heaven and Earth and Whatever lieth in between".

“Freedom from racial prejudice, in any of its forms, should, at such a time as this when an increasingly large section of the human race is falling a victim to its devastating ferocity, be adopted as the watchword of the entire body of the American believers, in whichever state they reside, in whatever circles they move, whatever their age, traditions, tastes, and habits. It should be consistently demonstrated in every phase of their activity and life, whether in the Bahá’í community or outside it, in public or in private, formally as well as informally, individually as well as in their official capacity as organized groups, committees and Assemblies. It should be deliberately cultivated through the various and everyday opportunities, no matter how insignificant, that present themselves, whether in their homes, their business offices, their schools and colleges, their social parties and recreation grounds, their Bahá’í meetings, conferences, conventions, summer schools and Assemblies.”  

Shoghi Effendi  – Advent of Divine Justice

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