Tag "Barbara Sims"

tag name:	Barbara Sims	type:	People
web link:	Barbara_Sims
author page:	Barbara R. Sims

"Barbara Sims" appears in:

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Sandra S. Fotos. Barbara Sims' Contribution to Bahá'í Scholarship in Asia Pacific (2003-03). Two memorial articles for Barbara Sims, Pioneer to Japan from 1953-2002, biographer of Agnes Alexander, and author of many histories of Bahá'ís in eastern Asia. Universal House of Justice, Sheridan Sims, Sandra S. Fotos. In memoriam Barbara Sims (2002-05-10). Two obituaries of a prominent American Bahá'í teacher and pioneer to Japan. Barbara R. Sims. Sheridan Sims, ed. In the Light of the Rising Sun: Memoirs of A Bahá'í Pioneer to Japan (2002/2020). Expanded and newly-annotated version of Sims' auto-biography, covering the history of the Faith in Japan 1953-2002.

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1953-12-04 — The arrival of Barbara Sims and her family, husband Sandy and daughter Sandra in Tokyo. [Barbara Sims' Contribution to Bahá'í Scholarship in Asia Pacific by Sandra S. Fotos; In memoriam Barbara Sims by Universal House of Justice, Sheridan Sims, and Sandra S. Fotos] 2002-04-24 — The passing of Barbara Helen Rutledge Sims (b. 17 April, 1918 in San Francisco) in Tokyo. She was a "third generation Bahá'í whose grandmother had been guided to the Faith by John Henry Hyde Dunn and Clara Dunn when they lived in California. [BW02-03p274-275] When the Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, issued his call for believers to serve in the first Global Crusade (1953-1963) she and her husband Charles A. "Sandy" Sims (who was not a Bahá'í but had been born and raised in Japan), and her daughter Sandra. (A son, Sheridan, was born a few years later.) She was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tokyo in 1954 and served for many years on that body. In 1957 she was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia, and in 1974 she was elected to the first National Spiritual Assembly of Japan, serving until 1993. She was secretary for many years on those Assemblies. She also served on a number of national committees, developed the National Archives, volunteered in the national office and on the staff of the Publishing Trust, went on teaching trips around Japan and to other Asian countries, and wrote Bahá'í histories of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Tokyo, and her memoirs. [Barbara Sims' Contribution to Bahá'í Scholarship in Asia Pacific by Sandra S. Fotos; In memoriam Barbara Sims by Universal House of Justice, Sheridan Sims, and Sandra S. Fotos]

 

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