“For its part, and in response to growing
numbers attending activities, the Local Assembly is
- enhancing its capacity to discharge the many responsibilities it carries on behalf of an expanding community.
- It seeks to create an environment in which all feel encouraged to contribute to the community’s common enterprise.
- It is eager to see the cluster agencies succeed in their plans, and
- its intimate familiarity with the conditions in its area enables it to foster the development of interacting processes at the local level. With this in mind,
- it urges the wholehearted participation of the friends in
- campaigns and
- meetings for reflection, and
- it provides material resources and other assistance for
- initiatives and
- events being organized in the locality.
- The Assembly is also attentive to the need for new believers
- to be nurtured sensitively,
- considering when and how various dimensions of community life are to be introduced to them.
- By encouraging their involvement in institute courses,
- it aims to ensure that from the very beginning they regard themselves as protagonists in a noble endeavour to build the world anew.
- It sees to it that gatherings
- for the Nineteen Day Feast, Holy Day commemorations, and Bahá’í elections become opportunities
- to reinforce the high ideals of the community,
- strengthen its shared sense of commitment, and
- fortify its spiritual character.
- As numbers in the community grow larger, the Assembly gives thought to when it could be beneficial to decentralize such meetings so as to facilitate ever-greater participation on these important occasions."
- The Universal House of Justice
(From a message dated 29 December 2015 addressed to the Conference of the
Continental Boards of Counsellors)
