Daniel Pierce
Daniel Pierce Olam | |
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_of_India_and_her_fellow_counsellor_Daniel_Peirce_Olam.png) Pierce (right) with Gloria Javid, 2018. | |
| Counsellor | Australasia 2015 - Present |
Daniel Pierce Olam (b. 1975) is a Baháʼí serving as a Counsellor for Australasia.
Background[edit]
Pierce's father, Charlie, was a Baháʼí who served as an Auxiliary Board member and in January 1987 he accompanied his father on a teaching trip across Santo Island in Vanuatu on foot at the age of twelve.[1] As of 2004 he was living in Tahiti and serving as an Auxiliary Board member and that year he spoke at the opening of a Baháʼí Center in French Polynesia.[2] He married Delia Olam who is a musician and contributed guitar to her 2012 album HELLO … i Like You.[3]
In 2015 Pierce was first appointed as a Counsellor by the Universal House of Justice,[4] and in 2018 he participated in a Conference at the Baháʼí World Centre sharing his experience working with youth in Timor-Leste.[5] In 2021 he joined the International Environment Forum.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baháʼí Canada: Series 1, Volume 9, No. 5, p 14
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/277/
- ↑ https://www.bahaiblog.net/2012/10/hello-i-like-you-an-interview-with-delia/
- ↑ 27 October 2015 Letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Baháʼís of the World
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/1264/
- ↑ https://iefworld.org/newslt141
