Service (disambiguation)

Service is a virtue characterized by the act of assisting others, or performing helpful actions for the benefit of others.

It could also refer to:

• Year of service – a period of time which an individual devotes to some form of service;

Professional service

• Military service – the act of working for a country's military;

Religious services

• Devotional gatherings – a form of regular communal worship during which Bahá’ís pray and meditate on the Creative Word of God—the equivalent of a church service without clergy;
• Nineteen Day Feast – a regular gathering including devotions, administrative consultation, and socializing;
• Weddings – ceremonies to celebrate marriage;
• Funerals – ceremonies to mark a person's death;
  • Burial – the burial of the body of a person who has died;
  • Cremation – burning of the body of a person who has died (disallowed for Bahá’ís except in very specific circumstances);
  • Memorials – gatherings to mark the anniversary of a person's death;
• Naming ceremony – an optional, non-ritualized ceremony upon the birth of a child

Organizations

• Bahá’í World News Service - official source for news about the worldwide Bahá’í community
• Bahá’í Distribution Service - national organizations for the distribution of Bahá’í literature