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THE months spanning the summer of 2000 saw the largest groups of volunteers arriving at the Bahá'í World
Centre in Haifa, Israel. Some of them—Kouhyar Rowshan, Sima Rowshan, and Zeny
Ramirez in June, Ailsa Hedley and Martijn Kersten in July—quickly became my dearest, most lasting friends.
I came in with the August group, so far the biggest contingent to have
ever arrived in Haifa and known as "The Army of Light", perhaps by virtue of its size. This motley crowd of 43 young (and youngish!) men and women are my first intimate exposure to true human diversity. They are an illumined kind.
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