David Hunt

As a songwriter, I've always felt that it is impossible to write a song unless I have a certain depth of understanding and connection with the subject of the song - usually obtained through long involvement and experience with that subject.  The more involvement and experience I have, the better the song will be.  If I'm writing a song about washing dishes, it helps if I've washed dishes before, the more times the better.  If I'm writing a song about service, I darn well better have some experience with service.

Background

Project Zaynab is a two week youth training project in Portland Oregon, whose purpose is to train youth to begin leading classes in their own communities for the spiritual education of children ages 5-9 and of younger youth ages 11-14.  The project's schedule called for 9 days of intensive training at the Beaverton Oregon Bahá'í Center, followed by another 5 days of training and service, assisted by a resource person, either in the Portland area or in their home communities.

Book 3 of the Ruhi Institute is now being used by Bahá'ís around the
world for training teachers of children's classes. Each of the 15
lesson plans in the book includes a song. These songs for children's
classes are presented below with very simple instrumentation, in the
hopes that teachers of children's classes will be able to learn and use
the songs. There is also a "karaoke" version of each song for people to
sing along with.

Political and Social Involvment

A Brief Compilation on the Affairs of this Age

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