December 21

The teaching work, largely stimulated by the increasingly effective media campaign, driven by individual and collective activity, and fortified by the consolidation work involving the institute process and its study circles, as well as the devotional meetings, children's classes and youth programs that are multiplying - all these constitute key elements which, operating within the framework of clusters, can and will guarantee a systematic pattern of growth. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated April 26, 2002 to US NSA, included in the document ‘Reflections on the current progress and status of the United States Baha’i community during Five-Year Plan, 18 December 2002, prepared by US National Spiritual Assembly)