The development of Assemblies in relation to the teaching
work is progressing through their direct support for individual initiative and
cluster activities, their interaction with institutions operating at the
cluster level, and the guidance and support they receive from Regional
Councils. The training provided through your National Office complements this
process by concentrating on subjects that go well beyond matters of growth,
touching on such sensitive and often problematic issues as personal status,
family violence, and other questions of a judicial or administrative character.
Therefore you are free to continue these efforts, which fall mainly into the
category of the administration of justice that you have carried out so well in
the past, without the need to transfer them to the Regional Councils.
(From a
letter dated 5 January 2006 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice
to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States)
