Service Opportunities
Annual Diaper Drive
Please leave donations of diapers (all sizes needed) at the Baha’i Center between now and February 21. The Center is open to receive donations every Sunday between 9:30-11:30 am. If you have any questions please reach out to the organizer, Erica Hayes-Schultz at hayes6869@gmail.com.
February 7 and 21st between 9:30-11:30 am at the Nashville Baha’i Center
Preparing and Distributing Food Donations
Haywood Elementary School is serving as a food distribution center for the Second Harvest Food Bank. Below are the volunteer opportunities they have available:
Location: Haywood Elementary School, 3790 Turley Dr, Nashville, TN 37211
Wednesday mornings: Preparing and organizing donated food (loading boxes of food) at Haywood Elementary School.
Wednesday mid-day: Distributing donations by loading food boxes into cars and/or transporting food to families without transportation.
To volunteer you must sign up for an available date here.
Donating Perishable Food Items
Cole Elementary School
Anytime: Anyone who would like to donate perishable food items to a local school and surrounding community can deliver them to the two large refrigerators outside of Cole Elementary School, 4060 Colemont Dr, Antioch, TN 37013. Anyone in need can obtain up to 3 items from the refrigerators.
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Local Spiritual Assembly nashvilleassembly@nashvillebahai.org
Members: Sharouk Fani, Faran Ferdowsi (Treasurer), Talieh Ferdowsi, Karen Streets-Anderson (Chair), Sue St. Clair (Secretary), Juliet Traub, Laura Ware, Jim Traub (Recording Secretary, Vice Chair), Juliet Crossley
Appalachian Regional Bahá’í Council secretary.rbcapp@gmail.com
Members: Elizabeth Price (Secretary), Aram Ferdowsi, Alison McGee, Craig Turner, Bita Rahmanian, Craig Turner, Jackie Jenkins, Niaz Khadem
Area Teaching Committee nashvilleatc@gmail.com
Members: Sue Senchuck, Laura Ware, Behnaz Momeny, Mahsa Etimadifar, Robin Ballew
- Facilitates and oversees gatherings for reflection on, and review of, efforts to transform the spiritual life of Nashville’s neighborhoods.
- Coordinates all devotional gatherings in Nashville
Study Circle Coordinator Shereen Cook
- Coordinates all study circles in Nashville
Webmaster Juliet Traub
- Updates website and website calendar of events
Nashville Statistic Officer stats.tn250@gmail.com (Linda Hendrickson)
- Keeps track of statistics relating to activities and individual progress through the Ruhi institute courses.
Area Feast Coordinators
- Coordinate Nashville area feasts and other activities in neighborhoods divided into the following areas:
Area 1: 37211, 37222
Area 2: 37011, 37013
Area 3: 37072, 37115, 37116, 37076, 37201, 37206, 37210, 37214, 37216, 37217
Area 4 : 37015, 37072, 37143, 37189, 37207, 37208, 37209, 37218, 37219, 37221, 37228
Area 5 : 37027, 37203, 37204, 37204, 37205, 37212, 37215, 37220, 37235
Area 1 & 2 (English) Coordinators: Gina Mendello, Woubit Atnafe, Parisa Heidari area1@nashvillebahai.org
Area 1 (Persian) Coordinators: Fariba Bakhtiyari, Mahsa Etemadifar, Siamak Olfati
Area 2 (Persian) Coordinators: Roya Hamdi, Shahrooz Eshraghi, Behzad Akbari
Area 3 Coordinators: Charlene Cage, Sue Senchuk, Susan Crossley
Area 4: N/A, nashvillearea4@gmail.com
Area 5: Ahdieh Shabazian, Shanaz Soroush