The Five Year Plan 2011-2016 (Summary)/Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops
Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops[edit]
Participants of a reflection meeting in the Philippines study guidance from the Universal House of Justice.
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Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops[edit]
As the Bahá’í community stood at the threshold of a new Five Year Plan in 2011, it had already created, through strenuous efforts over the course of a fifteen-year period, an effective system for developing human resources for expansion and consolidation and for raising the capacity of the friends to engage in grassroots action.
The Bahá’ís set out with great confidence in the succeeding five years to achieve the goal of raising the total number of clusters in which a programme of growth was under way to 5,000. Building on what they had learned, believers began to extend the process of growth to thousands of new clusters. In many of the clusters where programmes of growth had been established in previous Plans, the community-building activities continued to intensify. In a few hundred advanced clusters, the friends were able to create a system for expanding on a large scale "a dynamic pattern of community life that [could] engage a people-men and women, youth and adults-in the work of their own spiritual and social transformation". The knowledge acquired in different settings was disseminated and put into practice in country after country, and nearly all regions advanced.
At the end of the Plan, the Universal House of Justice stated that the Bahá’í community, now "fortified with the gifts of strength and hard-won experience that come from two decades of unremitting effort", had achieved a significant advance in the process of entry by troops—the overarching aim of the successive Plans since 1996.