January 27, 2018

Home Visits – a few excerpts from recent messages of the Universal House of Justice

  • …"home visits" are giving rise to an array of deepening efforts, both individual and collective, in which the friends are delving into the Writings and exploring their implications for their lives. (UHJ, 27 December 2005)
  • Plans being devised for this phase invariably involve the implementation of carefully designed teaching projects and campaigns of home visits and firesides, often through the mobilization of teaching teams. (UHJ, 27 December 2005)
  • Those not participating in study circles are nurtured through a series of home visits,and all are invited to devotional meetings, to the celebration of the Nineteen Day Feast and to Holy Day observances and are gradually introduced to the patterns of community life. (UHJ, 27 December 2005)
  • Meanwhile, the Area Teaching Committee is rising to a new level of functioning… how to organize systematic home visits to the friends who would benefit from deepening and discussions that connect them with the community; (UHJ, 29 December 2015)
  • Clearly, the institute process raises capacity for a broad range of undertakings; from the earliest courses, participants are encouraged to visit their friends at their homes and study a prayer together or share with them a theme from the Bahá’í teachings. (UHJ, 29 December 2015)