'Pancakes & Prayers' Interfaith Gathering at the Rigden Senior Center

Sunday, November 28th

10am 

 Join us in celebrating all Faiths and building community through strengthening friendships within our neighborhood. The theme will be 'Thanksgiving' and quotes from God's Glorious Faiths will be shared along with some singing and music. 'Pancakes & Prayers' Interfaith Devotions will be in the Timberline room at the Rigden Senior Living Center. Children, Jr Youth, Youth and Adults are welcome!
 

"Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever..."      

The New Testament: Revelation 7:12

Contact Emma Lue (970)224-5353 or Jessica (970)581-5583

Rigden Living Senior Center
2350 Limon Drive

Study on the Creative Word: Reflecting on the Life of the Spirit, weekly study circles

 Study on the Creative Word: 

Reflections on the Life of the Spirit

Neighbors and friends gather weekly to participate in small circles of learning where each person is their own active agent of learning. Participants from all backgrounds of Faith and experiences come together, strengthen friendships and build skills for service. Currently there are several study circles meeting during the week. Please contact the community building team at cbtrco14@gmail.com to explore what community building means to you. All are welcome to share in the learning and share in the process of building a caring community.

"The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds, through commendable and seemly conduct."

What does the betterment of our neighborhood look like?What are pure and goodly? Let's share in conversation and find out!

Ongoing circles of learning in the Rigden Neighborhood:
Mondays: 
12:30pm Genoa Coffee House and a 'new' circle starting up 7:30pm at Genoa, these circles of learning are exploring the first course, Reflections on the Life of the Spirit.
Tuesdays:
7pm Releasing the Powers of Junior Youth. This course is among a series of studies. This one builds capacity for individuals who want to serve as an animator for Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Groups and/or assist others to build capacity by tutoring this course.
Wednesday:
5:30pm ~ 6:30pm Reflections on the Life of the Spirit at the Rigden Senior Center, 2350 Limon Drive
Thursday:
5:30-7pm Reflections on the Life of the Spirit

For more directions and/or information on courses that build skills for service, please contact Jessica at lanikamalphoto@yahoo.com

Neighborhood Dessert Social

Join us and meet your neighbors, play games
and talk about 'What is Community Building?'

Saturday, Sept. 11
Open House
~ Drop in anytime between 6 and 9 pm ~
Kerr home
2815 Des Moines Drive

Children are welcome!
We'll have a movie night for the kids.
Popcorn and drinks!

Let's explore what community building looks like!

Contact your Community Building Team
with any questions at cbtrco14@gmail.com

Rigden Neighborhood Community Devotions: Sunday August 29th Rigden Senior Living Center

							Please join us for neighborhood prayers and fellowship at the Rigden Senior Center, Sunday May 30th at 10am. We will share prayers and quotes from God's Religions. This is a beautiful opportunity to visit with our seniors and meet new friends. Directly following our morning program, there will be children's class and refreshments. All are welcome!

Neighborhood Dessert Social: Saturday August 28th 6-9

Neighborhood Dessert Social

'What is Community Building?'

Saturday, August 28th 

open house drop in
6-9pm

 Kerr home

2815 Des Moines Drive

Let's explore what community building 

looks like in our neighborhood or yours! 

Children Welcome!

We'll have a movie night for the kids. 

Popcorn and drinks!

please contact your Community Building Team with any questions cbtrco14@gmail.com

Terrific Thursday! Today at the Kerr's

Happy Terrific Thursday!

Community Building Activities in Rigden!

Children's class 4pm

 Spaghetti Dinner 5pm

Jr Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group 6:30pm

Hosted by the Kerrs, call for directions Jessica (970)581-5583 or email lanikamalphoto@yahoo.com

Cluster Reflection Meeting....This SATURDAY!!!!

Dear Friends!!!!
Join us in sharing the learning, experiences and joy of community building this Saturday!

We'll be opening with joyous drum devotions and enjoy 

enthusiastic game about building community!

All are welcome to learn and share their thoughts and experiences of community building!

Rigden Neighborhood Community Building Activities July 22

Happy Terrific Thursday!

Community building activities

4pm Children's Class

Faith friendly spiritual education class celebrating the beauty of God 

and developing virtuous character.

5pm Spaghetti Social

Family friendly dinner for neighbors and friends.

5:30 Drum Circle 

Come learn to drum! Experience the unity!

6:30 Jr Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group

Cultivating 'spiritual and intellectual' excellence through service to the community.

All are welcome to join and learn how to build community together. 

Please call Jessica for more information, (970)581-5583

Rigden Community Building Activities week July 12-16th

Hello Neighbors and Friends!

We have an exciting week in Rigden. 

Monday, July 12

Monday's children's class will be cancelled this week and moved to Tuesdays starting next week.

9:30am Kerr home

call for directions (970)581-5583

Thursday, July 15th

We will be having our neighborhood 'Terrific Thursday' 

community activities at the Barn on July 15th.

Flowers of One Garden children's class

4pm

We are so blessed to have several youth who are focused on service joining us on Thursday. 

If anyone in the neighborhood would like assistance please contact me. 

They would be happy to serve.

Neighborhood Spaghetti Social

starts at 5pm

Join us for a wonderful evening of great company and good food.

Community Building Activity 

6:30pm-7:30pm

Recreation and games for all ages

7:30-9:00pm

Friday, July 16th

Neighborhood clean up

2-6pm

All ages are welcome to join us in taking care of our neighborhood. 

We will be meeting at 2:00pm at the barn.

Bags will be supplied by the HOA

Happy 'Terrific Thursday!'

Please join us for an afternoon of community building
activities at the Barn in Rigden Farm residential community.
Building social and spiritual vitality within our community!

Children's Class at 4pm
Classes for all ages!
Assistance with children welcome!

Community Spaghetti Dinner Social
starting at 5pm
A wonderful opportunity to meet new friends!
Assistance with dinner prep welcome!

Jr Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group
6:30 - 8:30pm
New night and place! We'll be meeting at the barn tonight.
This group is for youth, 11-14 years to develop and cultivate
their spiritual and intellectual excellence through service.

Rigden Neighborhood Community Building Activities June 21-June 27th

Monday, June 21

Children's Class 9:30

 Celebrating the beautiful of God's Religions through prayer, memorization, music and art. 

All are welcome! Hosted by Rigden Resident Jessica (970)581-5583

Call for directions.

"Ruhi Brew" 

12pm

Genoa Coffe, Kingsoopers Shopping Mall

Introduction to Community Building Activities

Enjoy delicious lunch at Genoa and for further sharing of community building activities. 

Capacity building course material will be on hand for investigation.

This is an informal opportunity to consult on ways to improve 

our community and how we can best be of service.

Tuesday, June 22

Capacity Building Study Circles 7pm

"Releasing the Powers of the Youth", book 5

This course assists individuals in the development of arrising to service jr. youth,

11-14 years in enhancing their intellectual and spiritual capacity.

Hosted by Rigden Resident Jessica (970)581-5583

Terrific Thursday! June 24

Rigden Neighborhood Barn

4pm 

Children's Classes for all ages

5pm 

Neighborhood Spaghetti Dinner Social

Friday, June 25

Jr Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group

6:30 - 8:30pm

Rigden Senior Center, Timberline Room

(Big yellow building in Rigden Neighborhood)

This dynamic group of 11-14 year olds are cultivating their 

spiritual and intellectual excellence through service to the community. 

Jr Youth, 11-14, are welcome to join us and transform our community for the better. 

Rigden Animator/mentor Jessica (970)581-5583

Sunday, June 27

Neighborhood Interfaith Devotions & Children's Class

10am

Rigden Senior Center

Terrific Thursday! Neighborhood Social at the Barn

What a wonderful afternoon and evening. The children's class started with song and prayers which everyone loved. The children love singing 'Blessed is the spot...' and adding hand signs that go along with the words.



They memorized the quote, 

'Blessed is he who preffereth his brother before himself.' 

We then played a game called, 
'Children of the World'...everyone ran after a the giant world ball with the purpose of having to stay together and not lose anyone. It think it also tired everyone out with all the running. Afterward, we came back to the blanket and colored our art page. So much fun!

 The friends spend the afternoon playing and chasing kites... and of course the giant world ball. All enjoyed a wonderful dinner of spaghetti, bread and salad. We met some new neighbors and had a great time. All are looking forward the next Terrific Thursday!!!


Our special guest for the evening was Juli Redson-Smith who shared wonderful news of other communities who are building spiritual neighborhoods. Thanks to all for making the night so enjoyable and an open invitation to all the new friends and neighbors...see you next Thursday at 4pm for children's classes 5pm for dinner!

Rigden Community Building Activities for the week of June 10th ~ June 17th

Greeting Neighbors! The following schedule is for community building activities for our incredible Rigden neighborhood. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or share ideas to assist in building unity within our neighborhood.

Thursday, June 10th

Activities are cancelled due to conflict of schedule for host family. Children's class and spaghetti dinner will continue next Thursday, June 17th. ( Please see June 17th at end of post)

Friday, June 11th 

Friday morning is open for visiting, saying prayers and/or study in capacity and

skill building study circles. Time and location can be flexible. Please contact Jessica at (970)581-5583

Jr. Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group

6:30 - 8:30pm Rigden Senior Center

Service group for 11-14 years that enhance spiritual and intellectual excellence.

Saturday, June 12th

Neighborhood Garage Sale

Sunday, June 13th

Introduction to Study of the Reflections of the Life of the Spirit

Genoa Coffee Shop Time to be determined

contact Jessica (970)581-5583

Monday, June 14th 

 9:30am

Capacity Building Study Circle, Reflections of the Life of the Spirit & 

Children's Spiritual Education Classes for all ages

Kerr Home call Jessica for directions (970)581-5583

Tuesday, June 15th 7:00pm

Capacity Building Study Circles, Reflections of the Life of the Spirit &

Releasing the Powers of Junior Youth

A course on assisting 11-14 years to cultivate their spiritual and intellectual 

excellence through service to the community at large. 

Kerr home

Thursday, June 17th

At neighborhood Barn

4pm Children's Class 

5pm Spaghetti Social

Jr. Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group at Rigden

The Jr. Youth group will be meeting Friday, June 4th at the Rigden Senior Center in Rigden Farm. We'll meet in the Timberline room from 6:30 to 8:30pm. All 11-14 years olds are welcome! Hope to see you there! Anyone interested in assisting with this group is welcome! Contact Jessica for more information, (970)581-5583

Flowers of One Garden children's class

What a wonderful afternoon! The children met at the Kerr home, shared a couple of prayers and talked about how the love of God shines upon humanity like the rays of the sun. And how our love should also be like the rays of the sun. We should love everyone. The children played a game called quote charades and memorized, 'O Friend! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love...', which is also on the sign for the garden. Everyone then headed off to the neighborhood garden to put up the sign and color an art page.

 Children on their way to the garden and  class photo at the neighborhood garden. Jadan giving a gift to Bushra, his coloring page. What a wonderful afternoon!!! Our hope is that the neighborhood will enjoy the beautiful garden.

Rigden Farm Neighborhood Inter-Faith Devotions: Sunday May 30th 10am

Please join us for neighborhood prayers and
fellowship at the Rigden Senior Center.

Sunday, May 30th at 10am. 

We will share prayers and quotes from God's Religions. 

Directly following our morning program,
we will have children's class and refreshments. 

All are welcome!See you there!

Farewell to "Jamie and Josh" Friday May 23, 5:30pm

Join us for an evening of fun, great food and wonderful company! Jamie and Josh are off to California, but first want to celebrate their new future adventures with friends and family! This will be a great opportunity for Jr. Youth, neighbors and community members to come together and get to know each other. Bring a favorite quote or prayer to share, we'll be putting together a scrapbook for Jamie and Josh to remember us by!

See you Friday!
Contact Jessica (970)lanikamalphoto@yahoo.com for directions!

The Blessed Youth: Life in Iran, past and present

Sunday May 23rd, 3pm Timberline Room

The Blessed Youth

Life in Iran, past and present

Please join us for a presentation on the Life of the Blessed Youth, Siyyid `Alí-Muhammad, entitled The Báb, who announced on May 22, 1844, that He was the bearer of a Divine Revelation which would prepare humanity for the advent of the Promised One of all religions.

Presentation of the Báb & 

Photo-documentary of Life in Iran

 3:00pm  Timberline Room

Rigden Senior Center

2350 Limon Drive, Fort Collins

Refreshments served

Hosted by the participants of a capacity building course called, The Twin Manifestations, sponsored by the Dawn-Breakers Training Institute.  The members of the local  Bahá'í community are working toward cultivating our spiritual neighborhood through community building activities, such as spiritual education classes for all ages, Jr. Youth Spiritual Empowerment Groups for youth and neighborhood devotions. The last Sunday of every month, the local Bahá'ís host an Inter-Faith Devotional program at 10am in the Timberline Room. All are welcome.

"In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love...."

On Sunday May 9th, the Jr. Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group and the children from the Flower's of One Garden Children's Class did exactly that! They worked in the neighborhood garden, planting beautiful flowers in the shape of a heart with a rose bush in the center. The youth also planted vegetables and looking forward to the harvest later on in the summer.

 

 

Children and Youth of all ages were invited to plant in the garden. They are so excited for the plants and vegetable to grow and are looking forward to tending the garden. One of the children shared, "I love being a gardener because I love flowers."

Our dear neighbor youth, Ryann was presented with the funds raised on behalf of the Jr. Youth's first service project. The Jr. Youth are looking forward to assisting Ryann again with another Parent's Night Out! babysitting fundraiser in the works, coming soon!

The day was beautiful, warm and sunny, just perfect for playing volleyball, ladder toss and enjoying great company. We met several new neighbors and look forward to cultivating these new friendships. All in all, it was a wonderful gathering. One of our Jr. youth put it best, 'When can we do this again?' I second that. We will for sure be planning another opportunity for neighbors to unite and get to know each other. Thanks to all who made it a wonderful day!

Neighborhood Community Building Activities May 6-May 9th

Flower's of One Garden Children's Classes 

Faith friendly spiritual education classes are held weekly in the
Kerr home. The children share their favorite prayer,
make a 'joyful noise' with wonderful music

and celebrate the beauty of God through art.
All are welcome!

4pm

Spaghetti Spiritual Neighborhood Dinner

Thursday evenings the Kerr's host a spaghetti dinner for all to enjoy. 

Casual evening of fun, good company and great food!

5pm

for more information contact 

Jessica lanikamalphoto@yahoo.com

Jr. Youth Spiritual Empowerment Group

Where 11-14 year olds are cultivating the 

'spiritual and intellectual excellence' through acts of service.

Friday 6:30 - 8:30

Rigden Farm Senior Center

Timberline Room

& 

Sunday 2-4pm The Barn, Rigden Farm

Rigden Neighborhood Garden BBQ

Sunday May 9th

 4-6pm

Please join us for an afternoon of good food, new friends and great fun!!!

We'll be planting a neighborhood garden, playing games
and celebrating the special women in our lives.

"In the garden of thy heart, 
plant naught but the rose of love..." 

Hope to see you there!