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About the Heartland Council

The Regional Bahá’í Council of the Heartland States is the institution currently responsible for the Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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The Council is elected by all Local Spiritual Assembly members in the region and ratified by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. The friends listed below are those who are serving this institution for the service year ending on The Day of The Covenant 2024.

 

The 13 Regional Bahá’í Councils in the contiguous 48 United States are institutions that operate as arms of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. They coordinate regional efforts to expand Bahá’í outreach to the wider community; analyze approaches to carry out current plans for the growth of Bahá’í service programs for children, youth and adults; implement strategies to help clusters of communities move through stages of growth; and promote neighborhood capacity building, learning, and service.

What the Council Does

The Regional Council carries out its service through consultative meetings, reflection spaces, and learning teams while accompanying the friends across the region in community building within the framework for action, efforts regarding social action, and engagement in discourses of society. The following learning teams are currently active and if you wish to know more about a particular area or assist in serving in that arena, please contact the Secretary of the Council.

  • Regional Training Institute

  • Development of Regional Growth Facilitation and Area Teaching Committees

  • Pioneering (Click this link to learn more about Homefront Pioneering)

  • Institutional Efforts Related to Race and the Plan

  • Development of Properties

  • Flow of Guidance and Information, and development of the Office of the Secretariat

  • Statistics and Analysis

  • Seeker Response Scheme of Coordinators and Responders

  • Development of engagement in the plans with Local Spiritual Assemblies

  • Regional Communications and Infrastructure

We'd like To Hear From You

Send your thoughts and suggestions to: secretary@rbchl.usbnc.org

Heartland RBC Membership - 181BE (shown below) Marianne Geul Joseph Kopke Lisa Lang Mathlida Mola, RBC Treasurer Rebecca Rice, RBC Secretary Erfan Taefi Jordan van Rijn

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