Groups for youth ages 12 to 15 provide an environment of mutual support as young people strive to effect positive change in their communities and their own lives.
The public is welcome to join us at the Divine Image Baha’i School (“DIBS”) with students from several surrounding cities. The classes are held twice monthly during the school year from 9:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Stagecoach Community Center in Carlsbad. In total, we have 19 classes each year with a festive graduation in June to celebrate the year.
Brilliant Star empowers kids to be world citizens, use their virtues to make the world a better place, and express their creativity, strengths, and beliefs.
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Vista's Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program empowers young people from age 12-15 to serve their communities, while enhancing their spiritual and intellectual capacities. There are multiple aspects of a junior youth group that contribute to moral and spiritual empowerment. One aspect of the group is to study text which includes stories of junior youth around the world which the members of a junior youth group can relate to and apply certain concepts to their own lives.
The experience of young people in a Vista, California, junior youth group animated by Martin Brown and Adib Towfiq has whetted their appetite for additional spiritual communion. Several regularly attend a devotional gathering in nearby Carlsbad hosted by Martin’s family.
“These junior youth are enthusiastic about attending our devotional gathering,” says Martin’s mom, Nasrin. “When they attend, I can see how happy they are and that makes me happy.”
The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program (JYSEP) is an educational process that seeks to raise capacity within the Junior youth population to take charge of their own spiritual, social and intellectual development. This program is open to all young people aged between 11 and 14, of every background, and assists them to navigate through this crucial stage in their lives.
