Strategies to advance the process of entry by troops cannot
ignore children and junior youth, if the victories won in one generation are
not to be lost with the passage of time. It is imperative, then, that at this
point in the process of systematization of the teaching work, definite steps be
taken to ensure that the vision of the community fully embraces its younger
members. The education of children, an obligation enjoined on both parents and institutions,
requires special emphasis so as to become thoroughly integrated into the
process of community development. This activity should be taken to new levels of
intensity during these twelve months and then be further raised in the years
immediately after. That the programmes of most institutes in the world provide
for the training of children's class teachers represents an element of
strength. Spiritual Assemblies and Auxiliary Board members will need to
mobilize these newly trained human resources to meet the spiritual requirements
of children and junior youth.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message
dated 26 November 1999 addressed to the Baha’is of the World)
