Travel Teaching/Pioneering Offers

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Travel Teaching Offer
Many of you may remember the visit of Mary Ann Gorski two years ago We are      
excited to hear that she is coming back for a trip of up to two months at the   
end of March this year.  At the moment she plans to go to Cambridge, Burnley    
area, Stoke on Trent, Brighton and Canterbury, to meet past friends that she has
made. However she is willing to stay for a couple of months. She is mainly self 
financing but would appreciate accommodation.. 

Please can you let me know, as soon as possible, if your community would like a 
visit, and if so what sort of thing you would like her to do. 

I have copied part of her biography below. 

Spoke at following universities:  Stanford (California); Dalian (China);        
Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and Newcastle (England), University of Florida Travel 
taught in:  China, Greece, Hong Kong, Macau, England (many times), Peru (as     
pioneer and on holiday from World Centre), Poland, Belarus, Romania, Nepal,     
Taiwan, Japan, Cyprus, Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Ottawa, Newfoundland) 
and various parts of the United States Visited Teheran, Iran and Rome, Italy    

Sampling of subjects for firesides, public meetings                             
* The Bahá'í Faith (and various requested aspects of it, Central Figures,       
  history, principles, Administrative Order) 
* Physical Creation and Divine Revelation - The Agreement of Science and 
  Religion* 
* Rational Belief in a Creator (intellectual and logical proofs of the existence
  of God; it is easier to prove than to imagine there isn't a God) 
* New World History (people have a tendency to think of religious history       
  happening in the past or will happen in the future; it is happening now)      
* The Life and Talents of Roger White (guests, and Bahá'ís, especially enjoy    
  this talk; it is amusing, teaches the Faith, is story-telling and non-        
  threatening)
* God and His Manifestation                                                     
* The Manifestation as the Lawgiver                                             
* Equality of Men and Women                                                     
* Women's Health, a Global Perspective (linked to economics)**                  
* Disparity Between the Rich and Poor                                           
* Towards United Solutions (on the United Nations)                              
* Peace 

Subjects for consolidation and deepening
* Significance of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh
* Progressive Revelation
* Progressive Revelation Within the Revelation
* Three-session course on the Heritage of the Administrative and World Orders of
  Bahá'u'lláh (a condensed one-session version can be given) 
* Talks on intimate views of: 
  + Bahá'í World Centre
  + Universal House of Justice
  + Amatu'l-Bahá Ruhíyyíh Khánum
* The Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l- Bahá
* The Advent of Divine Justice
* The Báb's Tablet of the Seven Proofs
* Bahá'u'lláh - Addressing the Clergy
* The Connection Between the Hands of the Cause of God, the International Bahá'í
  Council and the Universal House of Justice
* Shoghi Effendi
* Studying the Faith Through the Writings of Roger White
* Women in the Faith (from May Maxwell to Ethel Revell)
* Three-session course on The Ministry of the Custodians:  1957-1963
* Education of Children (with World Centre material covered)
* Service to the Cause
* Talks from the World Centre
  + Interpretation and the Guardianship
  + Service at the World Centre (applicable anywhere)
  + Birth of the Bahá'í Revelation:  The Year Nine and the Siyah-Chál

Note:  Many of the subjects on the two lists have been and can be interchanged.
       A deepening class theme can be used in a fireside and presented along
       with basic knowledge of the Faith.  A fireside/public meeting talk can be
       used to further educate the Bahá'í community.  This speaker is always    
       willing to research and speak on most any topic needed.  Am presently    
       preparing to teach a class at the San Jose Bahá'í Center on The True     
       Meaning of Resurrection.

Looking to volunteer?