28 December 2010
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| 28 December 2010 by Universal House of Justice |
Synopsis:
- The 28 December letter is a 16 page, 44 paragraph document of the House of Justice to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors. It describes the goals and plans for the Bahá’í community during the 2011-2016 Five Year Plan, calls upon the Auxiliary Board members to support the friends with "love free of paternalism", describes intensive programs of growth, warns against scaling back flourishing activity, calls upon the community to raise the number of IPG's over the next five years from 1,600 to 5,000, reflects on innovations to the cluster that resulted from rapidly growing communities, emphasizes the importance of developing Local Spiritual Assemblies and increasing the capacity of the institutions, discusses the pattern of growth rural clusters should follow, touches on the purpose of consultation at the Nineteen Day Feast, stresses the importance of "sacrifice on the part of those entrusted to administer the affairs of the Faith", highlights the Guardian's words in The Advent of Divine Justice regarding the distinguishing characteristics of the life of the Bahá’í community and that of the individual; including "the extent to which young minds are affected by the choices parents make for their own lives", reaffirms that prejudice of any kind is alien to the very purpose of the Faith, encourages the friends to strive to understand "the totality of the vision conveyed in the messages" of the House of Justice; warning against focusing on isolated fragments, and lastly covers "the three protagonists in the Divine Plan": the individual, the institutions, and the community.
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