Hello and welcome to the Home page for the Indiana Bahá'í Summer School website. This is a very brief website with just a few pages. It is designed primarily to inform you about next years summer school and to provide a means to register and to communitcate with the summer school commitee with questions or concerns.
Cultivating our society building powers
Keynote Speaker/Facilitator – Counsellor Garth Pollock
Garth Pollock became a Bahá'í in California in 1970. Five short years later he was pioneering to Bolivia. He later served at Radio Bahá'í from 1979-1986, helped to found Nur University (1982) and was the Director of FUNDESIB 1987-1992), a Bahá'í inspired NGO working in community development. Garth began his continuing involvement with the institute process in 1986. He pioneered from Bolivia to Albania in 1992 and was then appointed an Auxiliary Board member. While he was in Albania he worked with Health for Humanity and the Bahá'í Training Institute. His next Pioneering post was Zambia in 1997, where he served as a Continental Counsellor from1998-2010. From 1998-2004 Counsellor Pollock was the Director of William Masetlha Foundation and later from 2005-2010, at the Inshindo Foundation, two Bahá'í inspired NGOs. He returned to the USA with his wife, Karen and their two sons Ryan and Scott in February 2010. Garth was again appointed as Continental Counsellor in November 2010. Counsellor Pollock currently works as a consultant focusing on developing institutional capacity and principle driven organizations. You can hear Garth Pollock talking about the Bahá'í Faith and his service abroad here.
