Lehigh Valley Bahai

Bahai Forum for the Future - Allentown/Reading/Scranton Conference. May 7 & 8, 2022. Click here for details.
2022-05-08 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Baha’i Forum for the Future
Thousands of Conferences to be held all over the world, engaging millions!
When and where is the Allentown/Reading/Scranton Conference? SAVE THE DATE for our Two-Day Conference:
Saturday May 7, 10am-5pm and Sunday May 8, 10am-6pm
Ice House Performing Arts Center, Sand Island Park, 56 River St., Bethlehem PA 18018 A welcoming and easily accessible venue in a beautiful downtown Bethlehem setting
Look forward to a weekend of fellowship, meaningful conversation, devotions, study, music, and the arts, in which activities for youth and children will be a key element.
What is this Conference about?
To celebrate the beauty of unity in diversity and build consciousness of the oneness of humanity
To shape a collective vision of what a just, peaceful, and flourishing world might look like
To extend an open invitation to join hands to build a better world starting with vibrant, caring local communities working together to achieve material and spiritual progress that will uplift all and not designate anyone as “other”
Who will attend this Conference?
• Anyone who would like to participate in an open conversation on the above themes
• Including Bahá’ís, their friends, and their friends’ friends, and family members
• Admission will be free
click here to register

Sunday night Healing Devotionals via Zoom - hosted by Moira & Randy Padfield. Click here for details.
2022-05-08 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-05-15 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-05-22 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-05-29 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-06-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-06-12 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-06-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-06-26 19:30 - 20:30
Sunday healing devotional beginning at 7:30pm on Zoom. People can contact Randy at 201-315-3681 for the link. We are going to try to host this once a week on Sundays at 7:30pm. People should feel free to bring a prayer, poem or Writing to share if they would like.
Dear friends,
The Padfield family are hosting a devotional via Zoom (link below) this Sunday evening November 8, at 7:30pm and each Sunday thereafter. We will be saying prayers for Richard Beane (our son-in-law in Belize) and Shirin’s sister as well as others in the community in need of healing prayers. We will also offer healing prayers for our community, country and the world.
We would be happy to have you join us and would welcome anything you would like to contribute in the form of prayers, Writings, or poems.
We hope to see you on Sunday night.
With loving regards,

Weekly on Wednesdays - Spanish language devotions hosted by Ana & Ivan Almonte. Click here for details.
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-25 19:00 - 20:00
Ana & Ivan Almonte hosts. Zoom link was emailed directly to the friends.

In person/Zoom Feast of Azamat (Grandeur) - Hosted by Randy & Moira Padfield. Click here for details.
2022-05-17 19:30 - 22:00
Hosts – Padfield family.
Dear friends,
Randy and Moira Padfield warmly welcome you to the Feast of Azamat (Grandeur) in person and on Zoom. Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 7:30pm.
The address is:
3855 Wilson Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18020
Should you wish to contact them they can be reached at: moirapadfield@gmail.com
or by phone at:
Moira: 610.703.2874
Randy: 201.315.3681
Zoom link was emailed to the friends by Moira Padfield.
We hope to see you all on Tuesday!

Bi-weekly Friday night devotions. Click here for details.
2022-05-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-17 19:00 - 20:00
Dear Friends,

Please join our Bi-weekly Friday night devotional via Zoom

Topic: varies each timeDate: September 10th @7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada).

Zoom link was directly emailed to friends, however for direct zoom link to the devotions contact Shirin Khalighi: khalighi1@aol.com OR Gladys Nay: gladandlou@msn.com

Observation for the Declaration of the Bab - Hosted by Laura & Henry Lawrence at the Padfield residence.
2022-05-23 20:00 - 22:30
Hosts – Henry & Laura Lawrence. Location: Padfield residence in Bethlehem.
* Exact time of declaration is 2 hours and 11 minutes after sunset.

“Behold, all these signs are manifest in Me!” – the Bab
(from the Dawn Breakers, p 77)
Friends,
You are warmly welcomed to join the
Lehigh Valley Baha’i community for the celebration
of the
Declaration of the Bab
8pm, Monday, May 23, 2022

The event will be hosted by Laura & Henry Lawrence at the home of:
Moira and Randy Padfied
610-703-2874 (Padfields)

Meeting of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Bethlehem Township.
2022-05-24 18:30 - 20:30
LSA meeting – 6:30 p.m.

Observation for the Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Private prayers 3 a.m. Click here for details.
2022-05-29 03:00 - 04:00
Private prayers 3 am – 4 am.

Weekly on Wednesdays – Spanish language devotions hosted by Ana & Ivan Almonte. Click here for details.
2022-06-01 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-29 19:00 - 20:00

Feast of Nur (Light). Hosts - Roseann & Douglas Bowerman - Click here for details.
2022-06-05 15:00 - 18:00
Host – the Bowerman family.
Dear friends,
Roseann and Doug Bowerman warmly welcome you to the Feast of Nur (Light) on Sunday, June 5, 2022 beginning at 3:00PM.
This will be an in person Feast and we are excited to host you at our new home in Nazareth.
The address was emailed to the friends directly.
Should you wish to contact us, we can be reached at 610 – 704-0026 or rb04@lehighedu.
We hope you can make it!
Roseann Bowerman for the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bethlehem

Race Unity Day celebration at the Philadelphia Baha'i Center.
2022-06-12 12:30 - 17:00
It’s Race Unity Day
Please join us for the annual celebration

Where: Philadelphia Baha’i Center
2462 Bryn Mawr Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19131
When: Sunday, June 12th
PROGRAM STARTS AT 12:30 PM
Bring your family & friends,
your favorite lawn chair and packed lunch

In person Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) - Hosted by the West family. Click here for details.
2022-06-24 19:00 - 22:00
Dear friends,
The West family warmly welcomes you to the Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) on Friday, June 24, 2022 beginning at 7:00 PM.
This will be an in person Feast held at their home. The address was emailed to the friends directly.
Should you wish to contact them, they can be reached at
610-662-1860.
We hope you can make it!
Roseann Bowerman for the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bethlehem

110th Annual Souvenir Picnic of Abdul Baha, Saturday, June 25th, 2022. Picnic starts at noon.
2022-06-25 12:00 - 17:00
WHEN: Saturday, June 25th, 2022 – Picnicking starts at noon, Program at 3pm – Keynote speaker: Mr. Daniel Perell, Representative at the United Nations.
WHERE: 126 Evergreen Place, Teaneck, NJ 07666
For updates and to learn more, visit www.WilhelmProperties.org
We look forward to seeing you there!
– The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Teaneck
“This assembly has a name and significance which will last forever. Hundreds of thousands of meetings shall be held to commemorate this occasion, and the very words I speak to you today shall be repeated in them for ages to come. Therefore, be ye rejoiced, for ye are sheltered beneath the providence of God.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, at the first Unity Feast in 1912

Meeting of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Bethlehem Township.
2022-06-25 14:00 - 16:00
Meeting of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Bethlehem Township. 2 p.m.

Monthly Sunday Zoom devotions hosted by Bill & Bridget George - June 26th Devotional & Unity Feast at Little Pond.
2022-06-26 14:00 - 17:00
June 26th Devotional and Unity Feast at Little Pond.

GOOD NEWS is that Phil shared with us at Feast last night, a message from our Regional Council. It contained an idea that we might follow up on our wonderful Cluster Conference with a Unity Feast to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the first Unity Feast in Teaneck New Jersey in June 1912, at which Abdu’l Baha gave his stirring address.

Since Bill and I already had a Devotional scheduled at Little Pond for the afternoon of Sunday June 26th (same weekend as the Teaneck anniversary Picnic), Roseann suggested at Feast that we might combine this Devotional with a Unity Picnic and include invitations to those guests who came to our wonderful Conference. This works well for us, so let’s go ahead with it, starting at 2pm on June 26 instead of 1pm.

Please SAVE THE DATE and we’ll send an official invitation you can share later.

DEVOTIONAL & UNITY PICNIC
SUNDAY JUNE 26, 2022, 2 P.M.
Little Pond, 92 S. Penn Dixie Rd, Nazareth PA 18064
Devotional at 2pm followed by a Pot-luck Picnic.

“You must become of one heart, one spirit and one susceptibility. May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind, for you are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.” – from Abdu’l Baha’s talk at the June 1912 Unity Feast in Teaneck New Jersey.

With love, thanks, hope, and joy,

Bridget & Bill
