Every year we're asked, "How do Baha'is handle the winter holidays?" "When is the Baha'i gift-giving season?" "How do Baha'is view Christ?"

This year we spoke with Veda Mosavi, a Baha'i from Calif. who was raised by a Persian Baha'i father and a mother from a Baptist background, who became a Baha'i when Veda was young.

Ask young members of the Baha'i Faith what they’re involved in, and you’ll no doubt hear about helping to build sustainable communities, teaching children principles of morality, participating in interfaith programs and doing service projects, among other activities.

It took 10 years for Owen Hein to join the Baha'i Faith. Ten years to study it from every angle and conclude that, more than any other religion, it spoke to his passion - eliminating racial inequality.

Ethiopian children now can tune in to the country's first show to use puppets and animation in an educational context, thanks to the brainchild of Baha'is Shane and Bruktawit Etzenhouser.

Teachers, by their nature, have a notable goal. But Nanci Aiken ups the ante even more. As founder and executive director of Children's Success Academy, a five-year-old K-5th grade charter school in Tucson, Arizona, Aiken wants to do more than educate. She wants to "serve humanity," which is one of the tenets of the Baha'i Faith, to which she belongs.