Portland Metro Baha'i Community

06/19/2026

Online Interfaith Devotions: Portland
Sun Jun 21 2026, 10:30am - 11:30am

Most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for our fathers, those to whom you have entrusted the responsibility to provide loving protection of their families and guidance of their children. May our earthly fathers imitate the manly courage of all the holy fathers of the past in providing wise counsel to the children you have given to their care. Give them valiant faith in the face of confusion and conflict, hope in time of trouble and sorrow, and steadfast love for you, for their families, and for all your people throughout the world. ~Prayer for Fathers, Women for Faith and Family

Dear friends,
You are warmly invited to our Virtual Sunday Devotions on Zoom! The link is below. We start around 10:00 a.m. with fellowship and start our formal program at 10:30 a.m. which includes a slide presentation with sacred writings from various religious thought and music and a time for individual prayers. At the end we have time for reflection and conversation with thoughts from the program. All are welcome! Invite a neighbor to join you. We are usually wrapping up around 11:30. Come early and get your seat. Our program this week is celebrating Father’s Day. We honor those who fathered us or those who acted as fathers nurturing and providing for our needs. So come join us this Sunday, we would love to see you.
Sincerely, Karen, your host. 💖

Karen Zahle Thomas - Portland, OR is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Portland’s Virtual Sunday Devotions

Time: Jun 21, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84878048738?pwd=qKOKWbrQMevys8LMO38lBTj5MJVOBM.1

New Zoom link is posted here each week on Friday or Saturday.
[email protected]

Remember to check the website calendar for metro-area activities!
https://www.portlandbahai.org/activities

06/18/2026

Online Multi-Faith Devotions: Gladstone
Sun Jun 21 2026, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Dearest friends,
Please join us this Sunday morning the 21st of June for our weekly virtual inter faith devotions. We'll be looking at the role and importance of fathers. "...O Thou kind Lord, accept the request of this Thy servant at the threshold of Thy singleness and submerge his father in the ocean of Thy grace..." - 'Abdu'l-Baha

Jack Stone, host Topic: InterFaith Devotions Time: Jun 21, 2026 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82888110914?pwd=Q0VRbUo2eTJBMExRa2FsenViSWxqZz09

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For more information, please call Jack at 503 803-8796.

06/18/2026

Please join the Community for our Annual Juneteenth celebration. Juneteenth is the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States, when news of emancipation finally reached the last enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. It's a time to honor freedom, resilience, and Black American history with good food, good company, and joyful community.

Juneteenth will be held on Friday June 19th, at Beaverton Baha'i Center (5355 SW Murray Blvd) from 4-8pm. There will be good music, trivia game, arts, and games. We will serve hot dogs, burgers and veggie patties. Please bring a potluck side dish or dessert to share, and your lawn chairs. Invite friends. All are welcome.
Many hands make for light work. To sign up for food or if you would like to volunteer during the event, sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054DABAA2CA5F49-50025254-junteenth #/

06/18/2026

Our “Bridging Differences for Teens and Parents” video series brought together five families to learn skills for perspective taking, openness, and listening.

06/18/2026

International Day for Countering Hate Speech

Thank you to and Ambassador Omar Hilale for co-organizing today’s high-level event to mark the International Day for Countering Hate Speech. “Hate speech does not emerge in a vacuum,” Amb Hilale said in his remarks. “It thrives where ignorance replaces understanding and where prejudice replaces dialogue.” The Bahá’í International Community has decades of experience in addressing religious prejudice spread against the community in , where the Islamic Republic has made hate speech part of its policy of systematic persecution of the Bahá’ís for almost 50 years. But Iranians have been learning, as the Ambassador said today, that “Coexistence is not an abstraction. It is taught, practiced, and modeled, in schools, in religious institutions, and in the everyday choices of communities to know one another rather than to fear one another.” In other words: countering hate speech is something we must all do every day—not just once a year.

06/18/2026

Representatives from the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus attended the Race Amity Day celebration in Atlanta on Sunday June 14. The theme was "America at 250: A Race Amity Perspective." View the live stream and photo gallery here:

https://raceamity.org/atlanta-race-amity-day-livestream-and-gallery/

06/18/2026

Exploring how to sustain hope:

The event was sold out, and we all agreed: HOPE is a key driver of the progress we seek... and now ... how can we SUSTAIN HOPE?

It (once again) sold-out, it was probably the best annual learning experience that ebbf - ethical business building the future has ever offered and it was themed: "REORIENTING TOWARDS HOPE".

The levels of energy, insights and collaboration were made possible by understanding what creates hope, and how we can harness it.

The task ahead is not easy, that is why ebbf is now offering event participants and all those who could not make it, the opportunity for an open live interaction with some of the protagonists of the recent event we enjoyed in beautifuly Greece.

These are the dates of the new SUSTAINING HOPE series, to ensure we continue to explore, to co-create and to form part of one of the most service-driven and active communities FOR the world!

MONDAY 22nd June
Finance in the Service of Humanity: What can each of us do?
Marc Rivers and Shiva Dustdar
https://lnkd.in/ek9ByVDK

WEDNESDAY 8th of July
Finding, Creating and Sustaining Hope at Community Level.
With Ridvan Idara Foxhall
https://lnkd.in/emfUurkJ

MONDAY 20th of July
Hope in the World of Fashion: Can a Circular Mindset Help?
with Nava Esmailizadeh
https://lnkd.in/eqbCYWF5

MONDAY 3rd of August
What does an MIT PhD neuroscientist have to say about Sustaining Hope from the Inside Out? with Angelo Sadeghpour, M.D., Ph.D.
https://lnkd.in/e6xnrJ59

06/18/2026

The recording of this exciting conversation is coming soon.

06/18/2026

Diverse Communities

Building a Vision Together

A Lovingly Distinctive Approach to the Elimination of Racism:
Fostering a Moral and Spiritual Change in Individual Hearts.

PRJ’s ‘Diverse Communities’ is an arts and interactive conversation based initiative, bringing together, in safe spaces, participants from a wide array of backgrounds, who desire to see themselves as cycle-breaking agents of change, standing in love against the rapidly expanding division of America.
https://partnersinracialjustice.org/event/diverse-communities-connecting-hearts-we-walk-this-path-together/