With the
institute process so well advanced and the core activities flourishing in
cluster after cluster, a systematic pattern of action has taken root in your
community, and you can have every confidence that provisions are now in place
to ensure Bahá’u’lláh’s message reaches increasing numbers of people of all
ages and backgrounds in your country. It will be essential, of course, for
momentum to be maintained — indeed, accelerated. But there is no doubt that the
prospects for the growth of the Australian Bahá’í community are bright.
Like so many
communities worldwide, then, yours will find itself being drawn further and
further into the life of society in the years ahead as a natural consequence of
its continued expansion and consolidation. The greater the clarity of thought
you maintain about the nature of this challenge, already showing signs of the
pressing demands it brings, the more effective will be the response of your
community in meeting it.
(From a letter dated 4 January 2009 written on behalf
of the Universal House of Justice to NSA of Australia)
