Saturday May 24th 10am- 5.30pm stay for dinner and fellowship. Stay overnight if you wish to carry on working on Sunday May 25th. Accommodation charges waived for volunteers. Bring food to share.
Celebrating Halima’s Birthday (May 30th)
One of the last photos of Halima circa 2006 in USA
We do not often have a chance to spend time together in celebration of all that we have been given by Halima and the Sharda center. The Sharda Center is a special place and it is a very significant Sufi Center for New Zealand. Sharda is great a blessing to all through radiating a vibration that is sent out from Sharda to the world
Come and Join and participate in building the energies of welcome Home for Pir Zia and his Family and Devi Tide. Our special guests will be here in 6 weeks. The focus will be:
Preparing for Pir Zia and his family to come and stay at Sharda for 5 nights!
We will be cleaning the cottage and getting it ready for the family to use.
Getting the A frame ready to use. Val-Shafia’s home for the next while.
Cleaning the centrer: windows, curtains, rooms, corners , kitchen, etc
Gardening around the center and the cottage, temple site, under Ben's direction and guidance.
Bring gloves, your favourite cleaning gadgets and cleaning supplies.
Bring your Gumboots, gardening gloves, and if you have an old tarpaulin, wheelbarrow, a chain saw , or weed eater bring them along!
For the garden call Ben to ask what to bring . big loppers and clippers.
This will be a time for having some fun together.
If you can not make this weekend and would like to come at another time please contact Ben to arrange when you would come and what jobs to do.
If you have questions and suggestions please call
Jamila 09-818-0478 or 021-930-881
Ben 09 236 9083 or 021-146-9038
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Come to Halima's Urs (Celebration of her passing 25 Oct 2008).
They went down the path that led through the Sacred Wood of native trees.
And through the native bush of tree ferns....
After saying prayers at the site where the Sharda Universel will be manifested one day, they came to the Peace Pole. It was here that Pir Zia proposed that an exchange of stones be made between the Abode and Sharda so that the Universel there and the Universal here be linked.
The photo above also shows Samantha Jade, Halima's great-granddaughter, playing the recorder at the Peace Pole.
It was our Working Bee today. We had glorious weather, clear skies, a beaut of a late Autumn day. We worked as hard as these fellows below:
There were Jamila, Hakim, Sirrallah, Maimunah, Rachman, Habibah, Rose, Radar, Alim, Aliah, Trish, Julia, Shafia, Elizabeth and Anit. It was a good time to meet and greet.
Picking up rubbish...
Cleaning the accommodation block...
Getting down and dirty
No sitting on the job...
Cleaning windows...
Walls, floors, toilets, etc.....even the bird bath
Mowing the Temple site
Like I said, not sitting on the job...
Until the place looked neat and tidy.
Everyone doing a job and knowing their place..
Well, we worked hard and had fun and satisfaction doing it. We enjoyed the camaraderie: meeting, talking, sharing meals, pruning plants, mowing grass, clearing rubbish, wiping, vacuuming, sweeping, washing, scrubbing, dancing in the evening and finishing the night by watching a video of Halima together. Many are even staying over and carrying on tomorrow.
The vision of this remarkable lady was what started the Sharda Centre. She founded the Trust at the age of 70 years. Her steadfast belief developed that vision for the last 18 years. Now that she is no longer with us physically, her Temple of Peace needs our support to manifest it and to fulfil The Vision.
