Sole Desire Serve Cause Average Rating: 

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Jameson and Gale Bond’s memoirs tell the story of their six decades of Bahá’í service, particularly as Knights of Bahá’u’lláh in the Canadian District of Franklin above the Arctic Circle. Shoghi Effendi realized that among the goals of the Ten Year Crusade, "the objectives of the far north are perhaps the hardest. On the other hand, the harder the task, the more glorious the victory. You may be sure that he is praying for your success ..."

"Our hope is that our lives are a reflection, however imperfect, of the Divine Will. Our hope has been to show forth an attempt to win the good pleasure of the Beloved. And it is our hope that the reader will understand how inseparable they are and will see through our personal frailties to something infinitely more beautiful. Our lives are blessed and full of bounties." ~ Jameson and Gale Bond

A Love Which Does Not Wait Janet Ruhe-Schoen remembers Baha'i pioneers Lua Getsinger, May Maxwell, Martha Root, Keith Ransom-Kehler, Hyde Dunn, Susan Moody, Dorothy Baker, Ella Bailey, and Marion Jack in these stories, anecdotes and personal correspondences that demonstrate their exemplary characteristics.

Knights of Baha'u'llah

The amazing stories of the Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, whose indomitable spirit, courage and steadfastness brought the Bahá’í message to countries where it was previously unknown.

Art of Empowering Others A biography on the life of Gayle Woolson, a pioneer to Latin America for many years, and a Knight of Baha'u'llah for the Galapagos Islands. After returning to the U.S. after years of service as a pioneer, she served as an educator for Baha'i children for many years.

Lifeline Meherangiz Munsiff’s many achievements were grounded in her unwavering and profound love for Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith. The few days of her pilgrimage in 1953 defined the course of her life and initially led to her arising alone to pioneer to Madagascar and the French Cameroons, leaving her family behind in London and rewarding her with the station of Knight of Baha’u’llah. She later traveled to 147 countries, sharing the Faith and, in particular, her workshop on the power of prayer and meditation. The first part of this book shares the inspiring biography of her life, and the second part is comprised of her manuscript on prayer and meditation.

Always Time Average Rating: 

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Always Time: Baha’i Pioneering Adventures in Honduras is an exciting, inspiring, funny, and heartwarming memoir that begins in 1970 when, with an unexpected change in plans, the authors find themselves attending a talk that focuses on the need for pioneers to teach the Baha’i Faith in foreign countries. Within four months the young couple are headed south in a Volkswagen camper van.

David and Esther Tanyi (ePub)

At just 25 years old, David Tanyi was the oldest of the five young Cameroonian Knights of Bahá’u’lláh – the four others were all under 21. Newly married, and forfeiting a job opportunity to go pioneering, he reached French Togoland in early 1954, and was named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh together with Vivian Wesson and Mavis Nymon.

It was the start of 35 years of pioneering, during which Esther and David Tanyi experienced poverty, hunger and malnutrition, loneliness and xenophobia – but also the joy of teaching, and laying the foundations for Bahá’í communities in Togo, Benin and Ghana.