Chronology: Date 1998-04

date	event	tags	firsts
1998 Apr	The publication of the booklet Training Institutes by the Universal House of Justice. [TP323342]	Training Institutes; * Institute process; * Publications; - Bahá'í World Centre
1998 8 Apr	The passing of Florence Virginia Wilson Mayberry (b. 18 September 1906 in Sleeper, Missouri) in Marshfield, Missouri. She became a Bahá'í in 1941 in Reno, Nevada. From 1954 to 1959 she served on the first Auxiliary Board for North America covering the Western States and Canada. While serving as an Auxiliary Board member, Florence was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States in 1959. Shortly after the Mayberry family pioneered to Mexico in 1961 where Mrs. Mayberry was elected to serve on the National Spiritual Assembly of that country and participated in the first International Bahá'í Convention in 1963. In 1968 she was appointed to the Continental Board of Counsellors for North America, then in 1973 she was appointed as one of three Counselors of the newly established International Teaching Center where she served for 10 years. [BW26p275] Her autobiography, The Great Adventure was published by Nine Pines Publishing in 1994. She was a mystery writer. She had a number of stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Find a grave.	In Memoriam; Florence Mayberry; Auxiliary board members and assistants; Counsellors; International Teaching Centre; Sleeper, MO; Marshfield, MO
1998 Ridván	The Universal House of Justice announced in its Ridvan Message the "ten of thousands of individuals have over the last two years completed at least one institute course." [Mess86-01p612]	* Institute process; Training Institutes; Growth; Statistics; - Bahá'í World Centre
1998 Ridván	The National Spiritual Assembly was re-established in Liberia with its seat in Monrovia. [Ridán Message 1998] The Assembly, which had been established as an independent national spiritual assembly in 1982, had been disbanded during the civil war which began in 1991 and was re-formed as this time when the civil war ended. [BW98-99p54-55]	National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Monrovia, Liberia; Liberia
1998 Ridván	Three new National Spiritual Assemblies were elected at Ridván, two in Malaysia, the National Spiritual Assembly of Sabah with its seat in Kota Kinabalu, and the National Spiritual Assembly of Sarawak with it seat in Kuching. A third was elected in Europe, in Slovakia with its seat in Bratislava. [Ridán Message 1998; BW26p34; BW27p57 &58] With these new assemblies, the number of National Spiritual Assemblies rose to 179. [Ridván 155]	National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Statistics; Sabah, Malaysia; Sarawak, Malaysia; Slovakia
1998 Ridván	The former Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Czech and Slovak Republics was re-formed with the election of the new national assembly in Slovakia and the other became the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Czech Republic with the seat remaining in Prague. [BW26 p34; BW27p55]	National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Prague; Czech Republic
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