Late Night Chat: guest Angela Lee Chen, Nov 24, 2024, live on Baba Zoom

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Topic: Special Guest Speaker: Angela Chen

Dear Folks of Baba,

Our next guest speaker on Sunday, November 24th will be Angela Chen, who is known to most of us, as the initiator and coordinator of babazoom and through her many Baba-related activities over the last so many years. Hereunder is her bio:

Angela has been engaged in creating and organizing Baba meetings soon after coming to Baba in 1995. She became involved with the annual Northeast Gathering in 1997 and served as its bookwalla from 1998-present. She also served as the President of Meher Baba House from 2001-04, during which time she filmed precious archival videos of visiting speakers, now all made available on youtube. From 2005-2014, Angela served on the AMB Heartland Center Board, making the pilgrimage to the accident site annually for board work retreats. While working for them, one of Angela’s biggest achievements was handling the logistics for the 200-attendee 2012 Sahavas, located far away from any major city or community of Baba lovers. People converged from all directions for a four-day Sahavas, all mingling freely in love!

After moving from New York to Myrtle Beach, Angela served on the Board of the AMB Circle of Friends from 2018-2020, where her interest was in creating meetings to supplement the events already organized by the Meher Spiritual Center, located literally across the street. When the pandemic hit, she took Baba meetings into Zoom. The workload became so great, she stepped down from the Circle of Friends to dedicate herself entirely to Baba Zoom, now an independent organization more officially called Meher Baba Family – Worldwide.

As its Coordinator, she inspires creative new kinds of meetings and cajoles people to make them a reality. She also coordinated service projects small and large. The most significant 2021 project was to raise $43,500 for Covid relief work in India, funneling the funds to known Baba Family participants who were already spontaneously initiating direct help to their neighbors – funds directly benefited real people, with no middle men nor bureaucracy. The same pattern has emerged for the 2024 project to fundraise for Asheville area recovery post-Helene, where $72,000 (plus an unknown value in donated goods and musical instruments) has been raised and used to support Baba lovers, and the work of Baba lovers doing relief work on the ground.

Angela is the tech emergency line for Baba Zoom, handling issues as they arise during live meetings and helping people get online. She maintains the calendar and website to up-to-date accuracy, promotes events via email, Facebook and Whatsapp. She handles the video work – downloading from the Zoom cloud, uploading to Youtube and editing them. All in all, since April 2020, this work has been and still is a second full-time job!

I am sure I can speak on behalf of all of us on zoom, when I say that Angela is a Baba-dynamo with her tireless and selfless efforts in service to our Beloved Baba.

In His Love and Service,

Jeff and Goher

PS here is the link to the Virtual Holiday Bazaar. Items will be either from Asheville area businesses (who will receive full sale value) or other vendors who will contribute a significant portion to the Baba Zoom Hurricane Relief Fund. Here is the link (you may safely donate to this site, or the Bazaar items are under the "Auction" tab) https://givebutter.com/c/NbSnXb

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