A safe Bahá'í atmosphere,
venue and sound system...
We've had four parties to date. Each has been a
positive experience in its own right. Each one different. Varying
the music and set up along the way. This is the idea behind
Daystar: it seems like so much of the joy of being
Bahá'í youth, uniting, connecting to Spirit is
concentrated into the one yearly event that is Wetlands. When
shouldn't being a Bahá'í youth be about channelling
that pool of fun and goodness into our yearlong everyday lives?
As youth organizers and your friends we will exert
our utmost to provide a place for this to happen. Your part
requires nothing more than getting your butts down there. A party
like anything else is what you make of it. We can unite under one
roof and rock the place down- junior youth, middle youth, older
youth and non Bahá'í friends just like at the big
Wetlands parties for those who were there.
Alternatively, we can sit on our butts and do
nothing.. It's our decision.
Things I can do:
1) resolve to come down for the next Daystar.
2) encourage friends to come down with us.
3) sit on my butt like a plum...
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Why Daystar Must Rock On...
To follow up on what has been said: Picture the
following scenario: we go to school year in and out and hang with
friends. We do our thing however big or small. We see our
Bahá'í friends however often. And the days pass and
another year. Sometimes we stand back to see the big view,
wondering where all this is going? If this is the greatest day to
be alive, as Bahá'u'lláh tells us, then shouldn't it
feel more like it. The point is that if we as the
Bahá'í youth of today cannot unite and become truly
loving and everlasting friends with each other, then the following
generations will do it for us and they will be the ones who will
take the message of love to mankind, setting the world ablaze, just
as Bahá'u'lláh decreed.
Here's where Daystar comes into the picture.
London and the surrounding regions have their share of
Bahá'í youth. We operate separately when and if we
are operating. School and every other precious little thing seems
to get in the way. After the glorious yearly Wetlands, we get fired
up and then we come back to our homes. Well the whole idea behind
Daystar is to do party gatherings where we can reconnect more often
while having an awesome time. If we are not full of joy and
inspiration and encouraging each other as friends by sharing in the
experience, then we can hardly expect things to advance majorly
during our time...
From Sebi and ... Lassie?
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Planting seeds and reaping fruits in London
Camden
Some four months ago, some twelve youth got
together at the Khadem's lovely and formidable Camden home. The
gentleness of the Bahá'í loving spirit filled the air
as we sat down after lunch to consult. It was a chance for us to
connect to the Covenant and partake of each others' company in
lovely surroundings. We learned a bit about the institutions of our
Faith and about the virtues of being a Bahá'í. But we
also learned that we can enjoy youth deepenings and that we can
direct them as they best suit
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ourselves, as we the junior and middle youth
slowly and steadily take the reins of this Cause into our hands. As
a one-off it was good, and with every successive one should be
getting better.
Ealing Broadway
Thanks to groovy Bahá'ís like Mrs.
Pourtabib, London youth have a new place to come together on
Saturday evenings. The place which is a minute walk from Ealing
Broadway tube is called `Friends House.' We've had about four or so
sessions so far, with Omid Jalili speaking at the first one as
afterwards he was assailed on all sides with
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Some of the youth involved in Daystar taking a
sofa-break after a hard night's boogie.
moon jokes. Cool local Bahá'ís like
Adrian and Jamelia Kielhorn and other people including even youth
from Reading have jumped into creating this. little sprouting
scene. It is not a case at all of let's mull over these study
materials, but rather how are we going be inspired tonight?! We've
salsa danced and deepened on the Hidden Words and last time we even
prayed and chanted over human beatboxes. It was awesome, but you
just had to be there!
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