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The end of the Five Year Plan marked the conclusion of a series of plans that began in 1996 with the Four Year Plan (1996-2000) and the call to establish a series of Training Institutes. Next came the Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) followed by four Five Year Plans, 2001-2006,2006-2011, 2011-2016 and finally, the Fourth Five Year Plan (2016-2021). For a synopsis of the progress of the Faith during this period see the Ridván Message.
Achievements of the last Five Year Plan (2016-2021)
Two Bicentenaries were commemorated, the anniversary of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh on the 21st and the 22nd of October in 2017 and the birth of the Báb on the 29th and 30th of October in 2019.
The last continental House of Worship was completed in Santiago in 2016.
Other Houses of Worship were completed, Battambang (National)(2017), Villa Rica Cauca (Local) (2018), Port Moresby(National) (2016), Matunda Soy (Local) (2019), and Tanna (Local) (2019).
Designs for Houses of Worship in Bihar Sharif and Kinshasa were completed in 2020.
Some 300,000 core activities were sustained, a rise from 100,000 at the beginning of the Plan. Participation had risen above 2,000,000 (3 fold).
There were some 329 national and regional training institutes in operation.
By this time 750,000 people had completed Book 1. The number of courses completed by individuals was at 2,000,000, a rise of over 1/3 in 5 years.
Clusters where there were Intensive Programs of Growth was at 4,000 (hindered by the global health crisis).
Those Clusters where the third Milestone was passed was at 200 in 40 counties at the beginning of the Plan has risen to 1,000 in 100 countries. There were over 30 clusters where the number of core activities exceeded 1,000, in places, several thousand involving the participation of more than 20,000 people in a single cluster.
Evidence of the society-building power of the Faith was becoming more and more evident. In some instances there has been a movement of populations where age-old hostilities were being left behind. A significant advance in the process of entry by troops has been achieved.
There has been an "undreamed capacity to learn, to grow, and to serve humanity.
This date marked the beginning of the Third Epoch of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Divine Plan.
[Message 30 December 2021]
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Statistics; - Institute process; Core activities; Five Year Plan; - Teaching Plans; Ages and Epochs; Tablets of the Divine Plan |
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