He also pioneered to Honduras and later to Colombia. In the middle of 1940's Gerrard Sluter was removed from the rolls by the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Shoghi Effendi later declared him a Covenant-breaker for his persistent political involvement. Later Sluter appealed to the judicial courts of Colombia to demand the cancellation of the legal status of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bogota. He failed in all his lawsuits against the Assembly. [BNVol2p315]. Note: This reference is not correct and is currently under investigation.

The office of the U.S. Archives provided the following information:

..., During 1946 and 1947 he wrote copiously to the U.S. National Assembly and to the Inter-America Teaching Committee, making diffuse accusations against those bodies and against several Bahá’ís in Colombia.... The last message we found from the US National Assembly to Sluter is dated January 10, 1947; it counseled him to moderate his actions and referred to an earlier decision by the Bogota Assembly... The correspondence with Sluter in both the NSA and Inter-America Teaching Committee files ends in 1947. [from an email from Edward Sevcik, Archivist, 2025 May]