| 2016 Ridván |
The launch of the Fourth Five Year Plan (2016-2021).
The principal goals of the Plan were to "seek to raise the number of clusters where a programme of growth has become intensive to 5,000 by Riḍván 2021" and to add "several hundred more" to some two hundred clusters that have already advanced beyond the third milestone. [Message dated 29 December 2015 from the Universal House of Justice to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors. Other messages related to the Plan are:
- 2 January 2016 – To the Bahá'ís of the World
- 26 March 2016 – To the Bahá'ís of the World acting under the Mandate of 'Abdu'l-Bahá
- 26 March 2016 – To the chosen recipients of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan, the Bahá'ís of the United States and the Bahá'ís of Canada
- Riḍván 2016 – To the Bahá'ís of the World
Objectives
- institute process to gain strength
- strengthen the pattern of life (Nucleus of friends 29 December2015)
- build the capacity to accompany
- widen the circle of participation
- to have 5,000 intensive programs of growth
- there will be "Precious possibilities that will not return" (Ridván2016)
- the Area Teaching Committes to rise to a new level of functioning
- the Local Spiritual Assemblies development for increased capacity
- to commemorate the Bicentenials in 2017 and 2019, the Ascension in 2021
- All the the followers of Bahá'u'lláh have learned in the last 20 year will culminate in the accomplishments of the next 5. [29 December 2015]
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Five Year Plan (2016-2021); - Teaching Plans; * Institute process; Statistics; - Bahá'í World Centre |
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Canada