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5 Year Plan Goal Achieved!

posted Mar 25, 2016, 7:05 AM by Charles Thilking   [ updated Mar 25, 2016, 7:07 AM ]

March 21, 2016
To the American Bahá'í community
Dearly loved Friends,

   Following on our message for the Feast of Bahá, we wish to share with you the
wonderful news, received on Naw-Rúz, of the establishment of several additional
programs of growth in this country, for a current total of exactly 600. As you know, the
goal of the current Five Year Plan was to establish programs of growth in at least 600
clusters. Efforts to establish programs of growth are well underway in a number of
additional clusters, so the total may rise still further in the weeks before the launching
of the new Plan at Ridván. The current number marks a signal victory, laying a strong
foundation for the “herculean” tasks of the coming five years.
   We also wish to offer a correction to that same Feast message, wherein we
inadvertently left out the fact that among the diverse gathering present at the national
institutional meeting in Pensacola were several American Indian believers. We
sincerely apologize for this; indeed, there are promising developments taking place in
this highly significant population in several clusters, which we hope to report on more
fully in due course.
   We are deeply grateful for the confirmations bestowed on this community by the
Blessed Beauty and for the services of thousands of souls whose determination,
enterprise, and often sacrificial efforts have brought us to this stage. Surely this
achievement counts among the most notable ever seen on the American home front
and augurs well for unprecedented victories still to come.
With loving Bahá'í greetings,

NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE BAHÁ'ÍS OF THE UNITED STATES
Kenneth E. Bowers
Secretary
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