Foundation Documents

Training Institutes

The purpose of the present document is twofold. On the one hand, it offers an overview of the efforts thus far made by the worldwide Baha'i community to establish institutes; on the other, it reviews their accomplishments to date and explores their possibilities for further development and potential effect on the process of entry by troops. Passages from the relevant guidance given by the House of Justice provide the framework for the study undertaken. The document is divided into three sections...

Training Institutes and Systematic Growth

This paper presents an overview of the advancement of the institute process since the release of the April 1998 document. The analysis is framed in the guidance the House of Justice has given to National Spiritual Assemblies during the past two years in relation to training institutes. It is divided into four sections: