Alan Smith
Alan Smith | |
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| Counsellor | Americas 1985 - 1995 |
Alan Smith is an American Virgin Islander Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counselor for the Americas.
Background[edit]
Smith lived in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.[1] In 1985 the Universal House of Justice appointed him to the Continental Board for the Americas for a five year term,[2] and he chaired a day of an interfaith Caribbean Peace Conference held in Barbados in 1987,[1] and in 1988 he was part of a delegation which met with the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and presented him with a copy of the Promise of World Peace.[3] In 1990 he was appointed for a second term as Counselor.[4]
Smith remained involved in Bahá’í administration after completing his term as Counselor and in 2008 he attended the Tenth International Convention and commented that of the six International Conventions he had attended it seemed the most international.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baha'i News (1987). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 674, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (December 1985). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 657, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 688, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
- ↑ 25 October 1990 letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the World
- ↑ One Country Vol. 19(3), p 14
