Monday, May 03, 2010

South Cluster Launches IPG

The Baha'i community of South Trinidad have launch an intensive programme of growth (IPG) on 2 May 2010. The occasion was joyous and the excitment of the friends could be felt. Over 70 persons from around the country attended the event.


Messages of congratulations from the National Spiritual Assembly of Trinidad and Tobago and the Counsellor were read.


A spiritual atmosphere was created by opening the program with a 15 minute devotional and numerous songs were sung during the program.



Many friends from other clusters offered congratulations to the Southern Cluster.


For the past few years the Baha'i friends in South have been working very hard to make a significant advance in building their capacity to effect change in the society. It is widely recognized that the present order of society is crumbling and there is very little that can be done to save it.

Any real change has to come from the fundamental understanding that we are spiritual beings and not just animals. As such our actions can reflect a nobler reality. Once this understanding is achieved an individual can start working towards building a new world civilization.

The Baha'i community is searching for the individuals in the wider community that is concerned about the breakdown in society and would like to take an active role in building the new civilization. Together these individuals will study and develop skills that are necessary to carry out this incredible task.

The Universal House of Justice has described the activities that are necessary for this work:

...meetings that strengthen the devotional character of the community; classes that nurture the tender hearts and minds of children; groups that channel the surging energies of junior youth; circles of study, open to all, that enable people of varied backgrounds to advance on equal footing and explore the application of the teachings to their individual and collective lives...
The Universal House of Justice, Ridvan 2010.
When many individuals are actively engaged in these four activities it is called an Intensive Programme of Growth (IPG). The launch of an IPG is exciting because it signals that the community have grown to the point that this process can now be self sustaining. The community now has the capacity to steadily introduce new individuals to this programme and continuously widen the circle of friends that are actively building the new world civilization.
Congratulations South Cluster.

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