He also utilized his professional career to serve the Faith by producing a Bahá’í radio program called Meet Mr. He also made two appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show and acted on the television program In the Park which contributed to him becoming a well-known public figure throughout the 1940's. He continued pursuing his broadcasting career moving to Philadelphia to work for a CBS affiliated radio station and he got his own radio sports program called The Bill Sears Show which won an Emmy Award in 1951 and he also worked for the Universities of Pennsylvania and Villanova as an announcer for Philadelphia Eagles football games. Sears was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith by Marguerite Reimer in the late 1930's and they married in 1940 with Sears declaring a short time after. He married Kathleen Elma Fox in 1933 and they had two sons however she passed away in 1938. In his youth he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin in Madison but he left his degree due to a lack of finances during the Great Depression in the 1930's and and secured a job working at a small radio station in Wisconsin. Sears was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1911 into an Irish Catholic family.

He also traveled internationally to stimulate and encourage Bahá’í communities.īiography Early life and broadcasting career He moved to the Holy Land in 1960 to serve as a Custodian of the Faith after Shoghi Effendi's passing and returned to America in 1963 where he helped instigate mass teaching and encouraged individual teaching efforts. He was an active Bahá’í teacher in America and wrote books about the religion and later pioneered to South Africa and assisted in establishing Bahá’í institutions on the continent serving as National Spiritual Assembly and Auxiliary Board member and in 1957 he was appointed as a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi. William Sears ( MaMarch 25, 1992) was an American Bahá’í who was a Hand of the Cause of God William Francis Cyril Sears and Ethel Wagner William Bernard Patrick Michael Terrance Sears

A Cry from the Heart by William Sears