Findlay, Ohio

Findlay
First LSA of Findlay, 1941.
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Findlay is a city of the U.S. state of Ohio. A Local Spiritual Assembly was established in the city in 1941 but lapsed the following year and there has only been a small Bahá’í community in the city since.

History

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Early Bahá’í activity in Findlay included visits by Dorothy Baker who had visited the city by 1940 to teach the Faith.[1] As of January 1941 an organized Bahá’í Group had been formed in the city,[2] and the Local Spiritual Assembly of Findlay was established in April, 1941.[3] By January 1942 there were less than nine Bahá’ís in the city again and the Assembly was dissolved.[4]

In 1943 Rose Steinberg pioneered to Findlay from Columbus and Agnes Maye Ayres pioneered from Celina to help reform the Assembly,[5][6] however the community remained too small to form the body and in 1946 the National Teaching Committee announced two pioneers were required for an Assembly to form.[7] The Bahá’ís of Findlay had been able to form an organized group as of 1946 despite being unable to elect an Assembly,[8] and in November that year Ruth Moffett visited to conduct an intensive teaching campaign during a tour of Ohio.[9][10] By early 1947 there were six Bahá’ís in Findlay,[11] and Moffett reported there were four residents who were interested in declaring.[12] There were only two declarations however and the Assembly remained unformed.[13]

In late 1956 it was reported that there were signs an Assembly may be reformed in Findlay in 1957 although the community was ultimately unable to.[14] In 1958 the Findlay Bahá’ís collaborated with the B&P Women's Club of Findlay contributing two speakers to a public meeting held by the Club.[15] The Bahá’í Faith received wide publicity in Findlay in 1968 when the Republican-Courier of Findlay ran a story on Howard Duff, the telegraph editor of the paper, mentioning that he had become a Bahá’í in 1947 however the community did not experience growth as a result.[16]

In 1975 Lake Kissick, Jr., a Bahá’í from Findlay with cerebal palsy launched a project seeking collaboration from disabled and non-disabled Bahá’ís to help disabled Bahá’ís develop the capacity to proclaim the Faith.[17][18] As of 1978 there were seven Bahá’ís in Findlay.[19]

References

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  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 139, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 141, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 146, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 150, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 161, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 167, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 184, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 185, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News Letter (February, 1926). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 10, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 191, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 192, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 200, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 306, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1959). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 335, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ National Baha'i Review, 14, p 13
  17. ↑ The American Baha'i, Aug 1975, p 7
  18. ↑ The American Baha'i, Aug 1977, p 5
  19. ↑ American Baha'i, Feb 1978, p 8
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