Teaching plans

Individuals and families can adopt teaching goals

"If the believer is the only one of his family who has embraced the Faith, it is his duty to endeavor to lead as many other family members as possible to the light of divine guidance. As soon as a Bahá'í family unit emerges, the members should feel responsible for making the collective life of the family a spiritual reality, animated by divine love and inspired by the ennobling principles of the Faith. To achieve this purpose, the reading of the Sacred Writings and prayers should ideally become a daily family activity. As far as the teaching work is concerned, just as individuals are called upon to adopt teaching goals, the family itself could adopt its own goals. In this way the friends could make of their families strong healthy units, bright candles for the diffusion of the light of the King-dom, and powerful centers to attract the heavenly confirmations."

(Letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, dated April 17, 1981, to all National Spiritual Assemblies; quoted in Developing Distinctive Bahá'í Communities, pp. 7.19-7.20)