Rod Missaghian wrote:
> I was wondering what everyone thought about door to door teaching, or
> direct teaching?
I was involved in the door-to-door teaching in South Carolina and other
places in the early 1970s (Dillon and Mullins). In the late 1970s, I was
part of a your-long teaching project in Westchester County, New York,
and we were sent down to Georgia to learn how to use the "teaching
booklet" by working with Continental Counselor Hedi Ahmadiyya.
Mass teaching (including door-to-door teaching) itself is easy in some
areas. The problem is the consolidation work and the establishment of
functioning Baha'i communities and local spiritual assemblies.
My own view is that, before undertaking a door-to-door teaching project
in a poor or minority neighborhood in the U.S., there needs to be a
*formal* Baha'i center in that particular neighborhood. Relying upon
someone in the community to host events in her or his own home or
expecting people to attend meetings in another (often non-minority) area
of the city or town do not, in my experience, work too well.
--
Regards, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. * http://www.markfoster.net
"... the modern challenge is how to live with uncertainty. The
basic fault lines today are not between people with different
beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an
element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with
a pretense of certitude." =97 Peter L. Berger, sociologist
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