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بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم
In The Name of God - Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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Children: Girls Scout: 3 troops Martial Arts Sports Leagues. 3 8-weeks seasons Youth: Monthly Activities: 1/08: Annual conference 2/08: Spiritual night with quiam at Sligh Masjid 3/08: National Myathlon sports competition 3/08: MAS at USF celebrating African American month 4/08: National Youth Workers training 5/08: Voices for change talent competition 6/08: Voices for change concert 6/08: MAS Youth Study Abroad Program 8/08: Youth Weekend Camp 9/08: Imam Suhib Web weekend visit 9/08 Quiam night at Sligh Masjid 11/08 Meet with the Congressmen Keith Ellison 12/08 Eid Toy Drive 2008: 8-weeks long three seasons sports league through 2008 Weekly Activities: Intensive Islamic Study Program Weekly Thursday lecture at the center Adults: 1/08 Annual conference 3/08 Parents volunteer at public school workshop 6/08 Family workshop (anger management) Dr. Isra Saleh 8/08 Parenting workshop. Dr. Isra Saleh 2008 Weekly Arabic classes Weekly Usra Program for Intensive Islamic study. Picnics, social gatherings, and fasting with Iftar through the year. Interfaith: Many presentations at different churches and universities about Islam as well as some about environment from Islamic point lead by Saleh Mubarak. Freedom Foundation and Outreach: 3/08 Iraq war protest rally 3/08 Meeting with Temple Terrace Mayor 5/08 Commemoration of Nakba Allhamdu Llah there have been many volunteers throughout our activities beyond this report’s ability to summarize. Our thanks goes to 2 committee leaders and executive board members who have left Tampa in 2008; Dr. Slaeh Mubarak “Outreach Coordinator” and Sister Carla Canty “Girls Scout Founder and Ex-Coordinator”. 01/09 MLK Event Muslim African American History Imam Mahdi Bray 01/09 Girls Scout Camp 01/09 Girls Soccer Sports League age 8-11 01/09 Videogame Contest 02/09 Youth Camp ages 11-15 02/09 Dr Rida Bashir Workshop Parenting Skills 03/09 Fun day at Sligh Masjid 03/09 Videogame contest 03/09 MYAthlon: The National Youth Olympics sports competition 03/09 Girls Sleepover and quiam at Sligh Masjid 04/09 Girls Sleepover and quiam at Sligh Masjid 04/09 Fundraising Banquet 04/09 Girls Scout Cat Rescue trip Please note that weekly activities continue including: Weekly Intensive Islamic Study Groups Usra Program for Adults and Youth Thursday Lecture: Thursday 6:30 at MAS Center Arabic classes: Schedule according to level Girls Scout Meetings: Sunday at Sligh Girls Friday Islamic Teaching: 4-6 pm at MAS Center To know exact dates please watch our website www.MASTampa.org and register your e mail to receive our weekly announcements. You can also contact us at office@MASTampa.org or phone (813) 889-2267. Please feel free to contact us to have your children volunteer to run events and activities.
''Building Steps Toward the Future'' With the grace of Allah we have concluded another year of activities. We ask Allah to accept the good from it and forgive our shortcomings. Since we started 5 years ago our vision for the youth has been to develop strong God-conscious leaders through spirituality, activism, and personal development based on the principles and lessons from the life of our Beloved Prophet. We need your support to continue. We plan our activities around promoting a balanced lifestyle for the youth. For example, to instill Islamic knowledge we hold weekly Islamic intensive study groups, weekly lectures, and invited national guest speakers. To encourage physical development we ran 3 seasons of sports leagues and hold the major annual national MAS Tampa MYathlon (formerly Olympics) sports competition with participation of around 1500 participants in 2008 and 2009. To promote activism we mentored our youth to lead the planning and execution of all these activities, from the annual conference to the Olympics to the guest tours; from Islamic education to outreach to political activism. Our successful Girls Scout program is a full spectrum of such development from a very young age. We are also proud to have mentored and encouraged our youth to work with all the other great Tampa Bay organizations including Islamic Masjids, CAIR, United Voices and Islamic schools. Without your committed support our youth’s lives would be devoid of such positive Islamic direction and growth. This dedicated work needs every possible assistance, so we ask you to pledge support to MAS Tampa financially and through volunteering. One said it takes a village to raise a child and it is true it takes our whole community to raise a Young Muslim Leader. MAS Tampa is at a stage where it can have -if we have your support- a full time Director to take this work to the next level and provide more quality programs to our youth and community. So far most of the work has been done by volunteers, and like any other organization a fulltime staff would make an immensely positive difference. With the help of national MAS Departments, namely the Islamic American University, MAS Freedom, MAS Media Foundation, MAS Services Corps, and MAS Youth, we are not lacking in ideas but rather lack resources. Please pledge a monthly withdrawal to support this important and necessary cause. "Who is he that will lend Allah a goodly loan: then (Allah) will increase it manifold to his credit (in repaying), and he will have (besides) a good reward (i.e. paradise)" Al Qur'an 57:11My Best Wishes to have happy and blessed years to come. Amr Abouzied President, MAS Tampa |