National Children and Junior Youth Education Coordinator Miss Geriti Katik our
resource person Mr Lee Yih Ven will be visiting advance clusters May-July to
train our newly appointed Children’s Class and Junior Youth Cluster
Coordinators; organize Children’s Class teachers gathering, get the statistic,
access SBI programs for Junior Youths animator and Children’s Class teachers and
train animators for Junior Youth Empowerment Programs. Their tentative visiting
schedule is below. We hope individuals, institutions and communities will give
them and your cluster coordinators

After much preliminary discussion, consultation and preparation, the first ever Intensive Growth Programme (IGP) for Sarawak was successfully launched for the Kuching-Padawan-Samarahan cluster in the evening of 25 March 2005 amidst much fanfare in an inspiring candle-lighting ceremony. More than 60 friends came for the launching held at the Kuching Baha’i Centre.

This launching was the culmination of many meetings, the first of which was held on 5 March at the start of the fasting month of Ala. In that first meeting, held at the Kota Padawan Baha’i Centre, Counsellor George Soraya spoke and inspired the more than 40 people present to realise the potential and capability of the community to launch an Intensive Growth Programme for the cluster.

There is now opportunity for Baha’is to pioneer to Mukah. There, the believers are mainly from Mukah Town, Kampung Tellian Ulu and Longhouses along Mukah Beach. The believers are of Melanau and Iban backgrounds. The Chandrans (originally from Malacca) have been home-front pioneering here since 1986.

Children’s Classes are conducted at the Baha’i Centre, Kampung Tellian Ulu, Mukah. It is normally held on Sundays for a period of 1 hour. About 30 non-Baha’i (Melanau) children from Kampung Tellian Ulu attend the class. It is taught in Malay by both Mr. & Mrs. Chandran based on Ruhi Book 3. There is potential for this class to flourish. The children have been showing great interest. However the local Baha’i community does not seem to generate enough human resource in terms of trained teachers to sustain it.

Dateline: Thu, 2 Sep 2004: This is to inform that the Continental Board of Counsellors in Asia has accepted request for resignation of Mr. Kantha Kumar Ramasamy from serving as Auxiliary Board Member for Miri Town. The Board is grateful for the service he rendered to the Board and trusts that he will continue his [...]

The 7th Sarawak Bahá’í National Convention, an annual event held to elect new members of the highest Bahá’í administrative body in Sarawak, started on 30 April evening at the Kuching Baha’i Centre with a training of the delegates on their sacred duties and responsibilities in electing the new members. The training was conducted by Counsellor Mr George Soraya, a representative of the Continental Board of Counsellors in Asia.

The Convention proper, held at Penview Inn, Kuching, started at 8am on 1 May and ended at 4.30pm on 2 May. The Convention, graced by the presence of the said Counsellor, was attended by all members of the outgoing and incoming National Spiritual Assembly, 4 Auxiliary Board members, 25 out of the 38 delegates and 25 observers.