The Wilmington Baha'i Center is one of over 13,000 local spiritual assemblies worldwide of the Baha'i. There are more than 180 national spiritual assemblies and over 6 million Baha'i worshippers in the world. Though the Baha'i follow the teachings of Baha 'u' llah, they also teach the sacred writings of all other religions such as The Bible or The Koran. One of the functions of being a Baha'i adult is being able to vote for which members of the local assembly can go to the National Convention to elect representatives to the National Spiritual Assembly near Chicago. Those members then elect the nine members of the Universal House of Justice in Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
Members can lose their votes if they are caught breaking rules of the religion.
Nine is a holy number that represents the nine messengers of God, of which Baha 'u' llah was last.