Rogers, Arkansas

Rogers
City in the United States
First LSA of Rogers, 1959.
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History:
Firsts
 -  Local Assembly 1959 
How to contact:
 -  Email rogersbahaicommunity@gmail.com 
 -  State Arkansas
 -  Country United States
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Rogers is a city in the U.S. State of Arkansas located in Benton County in the Ozark Mountains. A Bahá’í community was established in the city in the 1950s.

History

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Early wide publicity for the Bahá’í Faith in Rogers came in 1955 when a proclamation of the relationship between the Bahá’í community and the United Nations was covered on local radio,[1] and in 1959 a Local Spiritual Assembly of Rogers was established.[2]

In 1961 the Rogers Assembly sponsored a Bahá’í exhibit displayed at the Benton County Fair which resulted in over one thousands pieces of Bahá’í literature being distributed to attendees.[3] In 1960 the Assembly sponsored a Prayer Pow Wow event, which celebrated Native American culture, which became an annual event. Hand of the Cause Zikrullah Khadem attended the Pow Wow in 1962 and 1963,[4][5] and the 1964 Pow Wow received a message from the Universal House of Justice which included the following:

Such a gathering will assuredly bring forth the blessings of the Great Spirit -the Creator of the heavens and the earth.[6]

In 1967 the Bahá’í community of Rogers was invited to participate in a conference sponsored by the cities Baptist Church contributing pictures of the Wilmette Bahá’í House of Worship and Bahá’í literature.[7]

In 1971 travel teachers Eleanor Lombard and Norman Ellig visited Rogers during an Arkansas mass teaching campaign,[8] and in 1978 the Local Spiritual Assembly of Rogers was legally incorporated.[9]

The Mayor of Rogers was presented with a copy of The Promise of World Peace by a Bahá’í delegation in 1986,[10] and throughout 1987 the Rogers Bahá’í community contributed weekly quotations from the Bahá’í writings which were published in the Northwest Arkansas Morning News.[11]

In 1993 the Bahá’í community of Rogers sponsored a Race Unity gathering which was attended by over one hundred people and described as the largest race unity gathering ever held in the region.[12] In 2000 the Ark Teaching Project was launched in Rogers coordinated by Duane Troxel.[13]

References

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  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 298, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1959). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 342, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 368, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 381, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 393, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 404, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 433, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1971). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 481, Pg(s) 24. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 7, pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1986). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 17, Issue 6, pg(s) 32. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1987). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 18, Issue 3, pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 17, pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ The American Bahá’í (2000). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 31, Issue 8, pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
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