Questions for the Consideration of the Assembled Delegates
Organized by 9 Year Plan Themes
A. A Moment of Historic Portent: Contributing to
Social Transformation The National
Assembly’s Questions:
1. Racial unity–What constructive suggestions
derived from insights gleaned from progress unfolding
within your region (and which can enrich the perspective
of the National Assembly) do you have on how “to promote
race unity in the context of community building, social
action, and involvement in the discourses of society”?
(Universal House of Justice, July 22, 2020)
2. Spiritual health–What constructive
suggestions derived from insights gleaned from progress
unfolding within your region (and which can enrich the
perspective of the National Assembly) do you have on
building spiritually healthy communities, particularly
in the context of youth entering the Faith and moving
towards Bahá’u’lláh? For those who enroll, in what ways
is their understanding being shaped by the Laws revealed
by Bahá’u’lláh?
B. Educational Endeavors and the Training
Institute
The National Assembly’s Questions:
1. Institute process–What constructive
suggestions do you have, derived from insights gleaned
from progress unfolding within your region (and which
can enrich the perspective of the National Assembly) on
how “participation of individuals and families in the
institute process has…increased consciousness of the
importance of education in all its forms”? Do you have
suggestions and recommendations on how such experiences
“serve as portals through which…the wider society could
come into an encounter with the Revelation of
Bahá’u’lláh”? (Universal House of Justice, December 30,
2021, Ridván 2021)
2. What constructive suggestions do you have, derived
from insights gleaned from progress unfolding within
your region (and which can enrich the perspective of the
National Assembly) on how “institutions and communities
[can create] spaces for young people and [support] their
efforts to encourage more and more souls to benefit from
the institute’s programs”? (Universal House of Justice,
December 30, 2021)
3. What constructive suggestions do you have, derived
from insights gleaned from progress unfolding within
your region (and which can enrich the perspective of the
National Assembly) on how qualities and abilities
cultivated by the institute are helping to contribute to
the process of growth?
C. Movement of Clusters
The National Assembly’s Questions:
1. International pioneering goals–What insights
and suggestions do you have that can enrich the
perspective of the National Assembly on how the American
Baha’i community can fulfill its international
pioneering goals for the Nine Year Plan, enhancing the
progress already made?
2. Growth–What constructive suggestions do you
have, derived from insights gleaned from progress
unfolding within your region (and which can enrich the
perspective of the National Assembly), on how the goal
of growth is finding success, including among “families,
groups of friends, and even clusters of households being
ready to enter the Cause”? (Universal House of Justice,
December 30, 2021)
3. What constructive suggestions do you have, derived
from insights gleaned from progress unfolding within
your region (and which can enrich the perspective of the
National Assembly) on fostering a spirit of universal
participation within clusters? In what ways are
“families and individual believers” deciding to “see
themselves as belonging to an expanding nucleus that
widens “the circle of activities” wherever they live,
whether in neighborhood centers of intense activity or
in other parts of the cluster? (Universal House of
Justice, December 30, 2021)
4. Growth of the Fund–What constructive
suggestions do you have on how the American community
can address the escalating need for material resources
in the coming years and how can it meet this
challenge?
D. Learning from the Most Advanced Clusters
The National Assembly’s Questions:
1. What constructive suggestions do you have, derived
from insights gleaned from progress unfolding within
your region (and which can enrich the perspective of the
National Assembly) on bringing ever greater numbers of
friends into the fold of the community building process,
and learning to work within distinct populations? Have
you seen results in your own region from the House of
Justice’s worldwide strategy that encourages those in
stronger (such as reservoir) clusters to help other
nearby clusters to advance in the framework of the
Plans?
2. What constructive suggestions do you have, gleaned
from progress unfolding within your region (and which
can enrich the perspective of the National Assembly),
concerning how insights from learning in the field have
been disseminated? How can we enhance that flow of
information?
3. What constructive suggestions do you have, derived
from insights gleaned from progress unfolding within
your region (and which can enrich the perspective of the
National Assembly) on the evolving role of Local
Assemblies in light of the vision offered by experiences
in advanced clusters? What can you share about the
relationships that will need to be established and
strengthened?
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