On 25 December, thousands of people thronged the residence of His Grace Archbishop John Ha to celebrate Christmas with each other over a sumptuous buffet meal. The crowd consisted of Archbishop Ha’s close family members, friends, priests, staff of the Archbishop’s office, members from various Archdiocesan communities and ministries

The weekend of 18-20 June 2010 witnessed an event that called for renewed commitment of the friends to intensify the growth of the Cause especially in clusters, which had launched intensive programs of growth. About forty members of the institutions including members of the National Assembly, Regional Councils, and members of the Local Spiritual Assemblies and Area Growth Committee of Kuching cluster met with Counsellor George Soraya and Auxiliary Board Members at the Kuching Bahá΄í Centre to study the 2010 Ridvan message.

A Junior Youth Class was successfully held at Stutong Baru last Sunday. Our first encounter with the junior youth at Stutong was memorable as it was our very first experience conducting a junior youth class in Bahasa Melayu. Despite the scorching hot afternoon, 7 participants had gathered for the class at one of the participants’ humble home. They were all excited and were full of spirit when we arrived there.

More than 60 Baha’is gathered in Kuching, the state capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, for a 3-day convention which started on 1 May. Among them were delegates, representing their respective electoral units throughout Sarawak, who came here to elect the 9-member Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Sarawak, which is the highest administrative body for the Baha’is in Sarawak.

The gathering is one of the 41 similar regional conferences held, being held or will be held throughout the Baha’i world between November 2008 to March 2009. These conferences, starting with the first one held in Lusaka, Zambia in 1 Nov 2008 and will end with the last one in Kiev, Ukraine on 1 March 2009, were called by the Universal House of Justice, the world governing body of the worldwide Baha’i communities, to provide the opportunity for the Baha’is to celebrate the feats already achieved during the first half of their current Five Year Plan and to deliberate on its current exigencies.