2018 - Local Administration

Six of the members of the Spiritual Assembly of Bahá’ís of Montgomery serving from April 21, 2017 to April 20, 2018. From left to right: A. Jack Guillebeaux, Terry McBride, Eileen Knott, Farzaneh Guillebeaux, Enid Probst and Ahmad Ahamad. Not pictured, but also serving during this time: Shelley McNulty, Grace Okia, and Debbie Wooden.

In local communities within which nine or more registered Baha’is reside, democratic elections are held annually for a nine-member administrative body called a Local Spiritual Assembly. Once seated, the Assembly strives to function as a body and to to make decisions through consultation. One of its responsibilities is to organize a schedule of Nineteen Day Feasts - these are Bahá’í-only worship services that are the spiritual and social foundation of Bahá’í community life.