The Five Year Plan 2011-2016 (Summary)/Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops
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Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops
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A: the Baha’i 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 Baha’is 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
‘ocess of growth to thousands of new
In many of the clusters where
mmes of growth had been established
yrevious Plans, the community-building
vities continued to intensify. In a few
hundred advanced clusters, the friends were
able to create a system for expanding ona
large scale “a dynamic pattern of community
that [could] engage a people—men
omen, youth and adults—in the
of their own spiritual and social ansformation”.* The knowledge acquired ferent settings was disseminated and into practice in country after country, id early all regions advanced. At the id of the Plan, the Universal House of ustice stated that the Baha’i 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.
Advancing the Process of Entry by Troops
