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United States NSA address?

Postby Keyvan » Fri May 19, 2006 9:54 pm

does anyone have the address for a letterhead to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States?

you can link it here or message me in privite

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Postby Jonah » Sat May 20, 2006 1:50 am

Yes, this is public information. From http://www.bahai.us/content/view/75/142/ :

The Baha'i National Center
1233 Central Street
Evanston, IL
60201

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Postby Keyvan » Sat May 20, 2006 8:08 pm

cool thanks. so if i send a letter to this, it goes directly to correspondance of the NSA, or another department at the NBC?

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Postby brettz9 » Sat May 20, 2006 11:22 pm

They will forward it to the appropriate department (the Secretariat if it is to the NSA directly)...

One thing you may be interested to know is that although we can write directly to any of the institutions, the preferred procedure is listed here:

Shoghi Effendi firmly believes that consultation must be maintained between the National Spiritual Assembly and the entire body of the believers, and that such a consultation, when the Convention is not in session, can best be maintained through the agency of the Local Assemblies, one of whose essential functions is to act as intermediaries between the local communities and their national representatives. The main purpose of the Nineteen Day Feasts is to enable individual believers to offer any suggestion to the Local Assembly, which in its turn will pass it to the National Spiritual Assembly. The Local Assembly is, therefore, the proper medium through which local Bahá'í communities can communicate with the body of the national representatives. The Convention should be regarded as a temporary gathering, having certain specific functions to perform during a limited period of time. Its status is thus limited in time to the Convention sessions, the function of consultation at all other times being vested in the entire body of the believers through the Local Spiritual Assemblies.

(18 November 1933 to a National Spiritual Assembly, in The National Convention, no. 16)


This would presumably help get the idea refined, and if possible, addressed before being sent on to the very busy NSA. Even if after consultation with the LSA, the question (or suggestion, etc.) is still sent on unchanged, it can be a learning experience for the local institution as well...

take care,
Brett

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Postby Keyvan » Sun May 21, 2006 3:35 am

thanks a lot!

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Postby brettz9 » Mon May 22, 2006 3:24 am

Sure...If you do send on the request to your LSA, you may wish to supply the above quotation to them too, as many are not familiar with it and you probably do not want time taken up with them possibly deliberating and finally telling you that your question was not a local issue.. :)


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