July/August 2011 Community Spotlight
Virtue Project for Kids
Love. Kindness. Justice. Service. Virtues are the very meaning and purpose of our lives, the content of our character and the truest expression of our souls. For people of all cultures, ethnicities and beliefs, they are the essence of authentic success.
Virtue means power, strength, inner quality. Virtues are the content of our character, the elements of the human spirit. They grow stronger whenever we use them. As a six-year-old once said, “Virtues are what’s good about us.”
Each of us has both strength virtues we can rely on, and growth virtues that are the challenges of our character. A lifelong learner never gives up hope that at any moment, we can awaken a virtue by choosing to live it. The Virtues Project is all about bringing virtues to life.
The Bahá’í Community of Beaverton and New Thought Center for Spiritual Living are co-sponsors of a Spiritual Virtues summer camp for children ages four to 12.
Participants will be welcomed into a warm and accepting space where they will be gently guided to discover the gifts of virtues that live within them. Children will have the opportunity to make new friends and experience unity between spiritual communities.
The summer camp will be offered on Aug. 1-4 from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Beaverton Bahá’í Center. Visit www.virtuesconnectionportland.com.