You may read about the Baha’i Faith using the various links provided but we invite you to visit us at one or more of various activities hosted by our community.  These include fireside chats, study circles, children’s classes, devotional gatherings, and junior youth group outings.

As stated by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i faith, “the chief reason for the evils now rampant in society is the lack of spirituality.”  The activities listed are designed to help us acquire spiritual virtues and assist us in creation of spiritually-based communities.

“The materialistic civilization of our age has so much absorbed the energy and interest of mankind that people in general do no longer feel the necessity of raising themselves above the forces and conditions of their daily material existence. There is not sufficient demand for things that we call spiritual to differentiate them from the needs and requirements of our physical existence.

The universal crisis affecting mankind is, therefore, essentially spiritual in its causes. The spirit of the age, taken on the whole, is irreligious. Man’s outlook on life is too crude and materialistic to enable him to elevate himself into the higher realms of the spirit.

It is this condition, so sadly morbid, into which society has fallen, that religion seeks to improve and transform. For the core of religious faith is that mystic feeling which unites Man with God. This state of spiritual communion can be brought about and maintained by means of meditation and prayer. And this is the reason why Bahá’u’lláh has so much stressed the importance of worship. It is not sufficient for a believer merely to accept and observe the teachings. He should, in addition, cultivate the sense of spirituality which he can acquire chiefly by means of prayer. The Bahá’í Faith, like all other Divine Religions, is thus fundamentally mystic in character. Its chief goal is the development of the individual and society, through the acquisition of spiritual virtues and powers….”   Shoghi Effendi