Bahai School, Retreat & Conference Center

Current Programs

April2009-Inn at Green Acre

Winter, Spring & Summer Programs 2010

All Summer Program are now open for registration. (Five programs opened on February 10th and the remainder opened on February 18th, as was announced in the Green Acre eNewsletter. Subscribe to the eNewsletter and see current and past issues here: http://www.greenacre.org/enews.aspx )

Waiting Lists: If a session is full, there is now an option in the registration process to check “waiting list” and be added automatically. You must complete the registration process, clicking “finish”, in order to be added to the waiting list. (There will be no fee.) If you have any questions, please email greenacre@usbnc.org



March 5-7 - Spiritual Retreat for the Fast for College Students

Full weekend (2 nights, 4 meals, no lunches) $100. Scholarships are available; the application form can be downloaded at http://www.greenacre.org/reginfo.aspx#discounts. Commuter rate is $17 per day plus meals, $7 for breakfast and $11 for dinner. Come for rest, reflection, inspiration and the joy of being together during the Fast.

Thaddeus Herman

Details and Registration


Mar 12-14 - Spiritual Retreat for the Fast for Young Adults

Full weekend (2 nights, 4 meals, does not include lunches) $136 for adults, $123 for college students. Scholarships are available; the application form can be downloaded at http://www.greenacre.org/reginfo.aspx#discounts .

Mark, Renu and Ken Cabot

Details and Registration


March 24-28 - Writing and Spirit Shape Each Other, and Us: Retreat for Writers

Phyllis Ring

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March 26-28 - Two Programs:

Grandparents and Grandchildren Weekend: God is One

Joannie and James Yuille and Susan Nolan

Details and Registration

Promptings of the Spirit

Suellen Howley

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April 2-4 - Handmaiden’s Weekend #10 - WOMEN, WISDOM and WELLNESS

Barbara Markert

Details and Registration


April 9-11 - Two Programs

Badasht Prep X: for Middle School Students in Grades 6-8

Joel and Vickie Nizin

Details and Registration

Hot Topics, Cool Conversations

Holly Hanson

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April 16-18 - Two Programs:

Prosperity: A Bahá'í Imperative

Russell Ballew

Faith & Pancakes: Friends & Family Weekend III

Paul Robbins and Willard Cofield

Details and Registration for both programs


April 30-May 1 - Youth Institute: Selected Topics from Some Answered Questions

Kamran Hakim

Details and Registration


May 14-16 - Regional Training Institute Weekend

Gerardo Vargas (Institutional meeting - by invitation only)

Details and Registration


May 21-23 - Persian Weekend

Rezvanullah Tavakkoli

Details and Registration


May 28-30 - Latin American Weekend - How I Can Contribute More Effectively to the Goals of the Five Year Plan - Translating What Is Written into Reality

Enidia Rinaldi

Details and Registration


June 4-6 - Two Programs:

Secrets of Divine Civilization

Peter Terry and Farhad Rassekh (Jointly with Wilmette Institute)

Second Program - information coming soon


Details and Registration for both programs


June 11-13 - Race Unity and the Process of Community Building

Tod Ewing and Lex Musta

Details and Registration


Summer Programs


June 18-23 - Peace as Humanization: A Bahá'í Perspective

Nader Saiedi

Details and Registration


June 25-30 - Camp Green Acre 2010

for children going into grades 4, 5, 6
Coordinators: Roger Davis, Mark Cabot, Sharon Sharifi, and Lisa Sobhian

Details and Registration

June 25-30 - Spiritual Parenting in Practice

Meishi and Michael Haslip

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July 2-8 - Spiritual Descendants of the Dawn-breakers:
12th Annual Badasht Academy for Youth in Grades 9-12

Jen Wilson and Vahideh Rambaud

Details and Registration


July 17-21 - Translating the Word into Action and Prerequisites for the Peace and Tranquility of the World: Translating “that which hath been written into reality and action.”

Janet and Rodney Richards and Barbara and Bob Harris

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July 17-21 - Creativity and the Faculty of Meditation – Spirit of Children Conference

Facilitators and Presenters to be announced

Details and Registration


July 23-28 - Spiritual Empowerment Program for Junior Youth

for those going into grades 7, 8, 9 - Jessica Meurer and Miles Sobhani

Details and Registration

July 23-28 - Revelation: The Creator and the Impulse Toward a Divine Civilization - Contributing to a Transformative Social Reality

Gordon Naylor

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July 30-Aug 4 - Discharging Our “Inescapable Duty” – Raising Children, both as Parents and as Community

Layli and Gil Miller-Muro

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Aug 6-11 - Exploring Themes In “Revelation And Social Reality”

Valerie Dana

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Aug 20-25 - The Soul as the Essential Inner Reality of Man and The Life and Significance of Bahá’u’llah

Hartmut and Ursula Grossmann

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Aug 27-30 - The Power and Influence of Music in Our Communities

Van Gilmer

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September 3-6 - The Cluster and the Covenant: Following the Minor Plan of God

John Hatcher

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