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First all Native American Local Spiritual
Assembly Omaha Nation
Macy Nebraska 1948
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The development of the local community and the functioning
of the Local Spiritual Assembly have been ongoing challenges to the Bahá'í
world through successive Plans. At present, a few thousand Local Spiritual
Assemblies have attained at least a basic level of functioning. National and
regional plans will clearly have to include provision for the adoption by such
Assemblies of local plans of expansion and consolidation. To ensure that local
plans contribute to the advancement of the process of entry by troops, you will
need to call upon your Auxiliary Board members and their assistants to work
closely with these Assemblies, both in the formulation of plans and in their
execution, helping them to shoulder the responsibility of systematic growth in
their own communities and in localities adopted as extension goals. The
community must become imbued with a sense of mission and the Assembly grow in
awareness of its role as a channel of God's grace not only for the Bahá'ís but
for the entire village, town or city in which it serves.
- The Universal House of
Justice (From a message addressed to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors, December
26, 1995)
