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OPEN HOUSE: The Yellow Springs Baha’i Center is now open every TUESDAY 11:00 – 1:00. Come on in to ask your questions, watch a documentary, browse our library or to have a meaningful conversation. You are welcome whether you’re just a little curious or want to go deeper.
The Baha’i Center located at 502 Dayton Street in Yellow Springs. (Blue house at the corner of N. High & Dayton St.) For other localities seeMiami Valley Baha’is or Ohio Baha’i Communities
For a one on one conversation or a home visit call 937-767-7079.
Various community members offer to host devotionals and holy days as a service to the community. If you would like to be reminded by email send your email address to: ysbahai@gmail.com to join our email list.
Calendar of Events 2023
October 6, Sunday 2:00 Author Sidney Morrison – will visit Yellow Springs on as part of his national tour for his recently published book Frederick Douglass: A Novel. This is the only historical novel published based on the life of Frederick Douglass. What makes this portrayal of Douglass unique are the details of his intimate life as well as his role as one of America’s founding fathers who escaped slavery to become a radical abolitionist and proponent of racial equality. “Morrison looked into Douglass’ soul and found the human within the legend,” wrote Deirdre Sinnott. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. The program will be followed by an informal discussion and refreshments.
October 13, Sunday 11:00 Devotional on The Home & Hospitality (Kim) As the East and the West are illumined by one sun, so all races, nations, and creeds shall be seen as the servants of the One God. The whole earth is one home, and all peoples, did they but know it, are bathed in the oneness of God’s mercy. God created all. He gives sustenance to all. He guides and trains all under the shadow of his bounty. (Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu’l-Baha in London, p. 38)
October 13, Sunday 3:00 Devotional – Friends (Quaker) Meeting House at 345 Wyoming St. Dayton – In support of the Marifiki (Congolese) Baha’is.
October 27, Sunday 3:00 Devotional – Friends (Quaker) Meeting House at 345 Wyoming St. Dayton – In support of the Marifiki (Congolese) Baha’is.
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The Passing of Kevin Edward Locke (Lakota name: Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning “The First to Arise”; June 23, 1954 – September 30, 2022) was of Lakota descent of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Anishinaabe of White Earth. He was a preeminent player of the Native American flute, a traditional storyteller, cultural ambassador, recording artist and educator. He was best-known for his hoop dance, The Hoop of Life.
Note: Kevin has performed in Yellow Springs throughout the years. Kevin Locke was scheduled to come to the Dayton/Springfield/Cincinnati the first week of October. He passed on to the next world on September 30, 2022. We share this video with you so that you can appreciate the artistry of this wonderful human being and the message of the Oneness of Humanity he shared with the peoples of the world.
*Abdu’l-Baha (1844-1921), eldest son of Baha’u’llah and His chosen successor, was known as an ambassador of peace, a champion of justice, an advocate for race amity and equality and the leading exponent of a new Faith. Through a series of epoch-making travels to Africa, North America and Europe,`Abdu’l-Bahá–by word and example–proclaimed with persuasiveness and force the essential principles of His Father’s religion. Upon His death ten thousand people–Jews, Christians, and Muslims from all denominations–gathered on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land to mourn his passing. Today He is embraced by more than 5 million Baha’is as the perfect Exemplar of what it means to be a Baha’i.