OATS: The Oklahoma/Arkansas/Texas Regional Training Institute

Relationships Between The Ruhi Sequence of Courses and Service/Practice

Reflections on the Life of the Spirit (Book 1) - Devotional gatherings multiply

Participate in 19 Day Feasts and devotional meetings by:
- reciting memorized prayers
- reciting holy Writings from memory
Visit the sick or inactive friends and share prayers with them
Help children or those who speak a different language to memorize prayers
Assist with community devotional meetings
Organize individual devotional gatherings with family, friends and neighbors

Arising to Serve (Book 2) - Deepening activities increase

Visit and deepen new or inactive believers or seekers with the deepening themes or Bahá'í beliefs from Book 2.
Follow-up with seekers from the media campaign
Assist with 19-Day Feast
Present a deepening theme or Bahá'í beliefs from Book 2 to a youth class or at a fireside or in a deepening class

Teaching Children's Classes Grade 1 (Book 3) - Children's Classes multiply

Teach children's classes (formally or informally)
- to your own children
- to neighbors' children
- to any children
Assist with children during 19-Day Feast

The Twin Manifestations (Book 4) - Sharing stories of the history of the Faith increases

Share the lives of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh with others
- youth
- new believers
- seekers

Teaching the Cause (Book 6) - Individual and collective teaching efforts increase

Create a personal teaching plan
Initiate a personal fireside
Assist with a teaching campaign

Walking Together on a Path of Service (Book 7) - Study circles multiply

Start a study circle to tutor the institute courses for
- seekers
- new believers
- youth
- veteran believers

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