The third milestone is a measurement of a journey whose beginnings are well understood. Once it is passed, clusters where progress has been consolidated can be seen to share important features.
- The institute’s programmes are being supported by a relatively substantial and expanding pool of human resources.
- Effort is being made to enable more neighbourhoods and villages to sustain intense activity.
- There is a capacity to embrace large numbers and manage increasing complexity through both formal and informal arrangements.
- Crucially, in these clusters, consistent attention is being given to sustaining effective cycles, so that there is a regular pulse of study, consultation, action, and reflection through which the community enhances its capacity to grow and to contribute to the advancement of the society to which it belongs. These cycles include
- periods of particular intensity,
- an injection of energy that is propelling the engagement of the widest possible circle of friends.
- Community undertakings such as family festivals, junior youth camps, service projects, arts endeavours, and collective teaching initiatives are proceeding according to their own respective rhythms.
- Reflection spaces bring together many friends, and the use of such spaces is thoughtful and deliberate—there is awareness that the quality and utility of reflection is measured by the purposeful action arising from it.
- From these clusters, resources flow to surrounding clusters to help the friends there make accelerated progress.
- The Universal House of Justice (Message dated 31 December 2025 to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors; online Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)
