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Does your local SACRE have a Bahá'í Member?
Does your local SACRE have a Bahá'í Member?
There would normally only be one Bahá'í representative for each local authority area so you may need to consult with surrounding Bahá'í communities as to how to choose the representative.
While it is obviously beneficial for the representative to take an active part in meetings, just attending contributes to raising the profile of the Bahá'í Faith in your area.
One member's experience of
getting a place
on their local SACRE
Several years ago following several applications by our LSA for
membership, an invitation was received to give a talk to our local
SACRE, with a view to membership. Peter Hulme gave the talk,
SACRE requested the LSA to provide a member, and the rest is history.Membership of SACRE has resulted in several useful contacts:
1. Asked to help re-write agreed syllabus at the next 5 yearly review, leading to opportunity to create Baha'i scheme of work to dovetail into syllabus. Once this was incorporated, the Schools Library Service was happy to accept a Baha'i Resource Box to lend out to schools.
2. Contact with national magazine 'RE today' through editor Joyce Mackley (also SACRE member) who asked for 2 Baha'i articles.
3. With other SACRE members (one Jewish, one Muslim) helped to form the Herefordshire Multi-faith Development Group, which has so far run several successful multi-faith days involving at least 500 Herefordshire school pupils. These activities have also brought contact with more members of non-Christian faiths.
4. A spin-off has been invitations from individual schools asking me to run Baha'i workshops. (Midge Ault)
Registered in England – Company limited by guarantee No. 355737, Registered Charity (1967) 250851 The Assembly also represents the Bahá’í communities of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands