Abercus Abercrombie Book Report

Dorcus Abercrombie contributes, “I met Trudy in 1979 or 1980 when I came to the Louis Gregory Institute to continue the teaching work I had been doing in Chicago.
I stayed at the Institute for six months and went with Trudy to North Charleston where I met her mother and two of her children. I remember Trudy dancing, laughing and defending the downtrodden. She was a wonderful woman whom I love very much, a fellow Sagittarian. Trudy was our Teaching Coordinator at the time and I thought she was in charge of everything. She got us together and told us whose houses and what communities we were going to that morning. While I was teaching at the Institute, I had a problem with a couple of people and I talked to Trudy about the matter. Trudy’s

In a message from the Universal House of Justice dated February 14, 1972, Baha’is were instructed to ‘continue unabated their efforts to reach the waiting souls, while simultaneously consolidating the hard won victories.’ In following up that directive, the National Teaching Committee has sent guidelines to District Teaching committees on the most effective ways to carry out the twin tasks of teaching and consolidation.” “The plan for consolidation in the mass taught areas is based on the early formation of the Baha’i Local Spiritual Assembly,” the guidelines say. “Baha’u’llah instructed us that when there are nine followers of His Faith an Assembly is to be formed. His instruction does not assume a degree of administrative ability or functioning, any more than creation of a human being assumes any level of intellectual ability on the part of the new soul.” “The consolidation plan for Georgia and South Carolina has been formulated and begun. It contains five basic

Present plans call for at least six visits to each community by Ridvan. Many communities would like to be visited more often, but there is not enough man power to do this. A teacher-training institute was held January 13 -14 at the Louis G. Gregory Baha’i Institute in Hemingway. Topics included the life of Baha’u’llah, and the concepts of the unity of mankind and the oneness of God. There are far too few cars available to carry on the consolidation work in South Carolina, and more are desperately needed, according to Mrs. Trudy White of the South Carolina Regional Teaching Office. The state also could easily use four or five more full-time teachers, she said. U. S. enrollment figures for December 28 – January 25 show that 91new believers were enrolled in South Carolina. Many of them became Baha’is when contacted by teaching teams that were visiting new