Training Institute
National Spiritual Assembly
nsa@bahai.org.uk
14 May 2015
17 Jamál 172 B.E.
To all believers in the United Kingdom
Dearly loved Friends,
With our warmest love, the National Spiritual Assembly writes to announce a significant development that is being implemented in the structure of the training institute.
Operating at a strategic level, the Training Institute Board for the United Kingdom has, for a number of years, overseen the implementation of the training institute process as a whole across the UK. It has played an essential role in helping the process advance in this country, and the National Assembly keenly appreciates all that it has accomplished and is grateful to all those who have served on the Board for their devoted efforts.
However, in light of the development of the community as a whole, the individuals within it, and the emerging strength to be found in the institutions, the National Assembly has decided, in consultation with Counsellor Shirin Fozdar-Foroudi, that it is now timely to re-establish separate training institute boards in each of the four regions of the United Kingdom – England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These will work closely with the Institution of the Counsellors and will be under the guidance of the Regional Bahá’í Councils. The Councils will announce further details about the membership and contact details of the training institute boards in their regions in due course. In the meantime, correspondence concerning training institute matters should be directed to the relevant Regional Council.
The National Assembly is excited by this development and believes it will serve to accelerate both the flow of individuals through the sequence of courses and the movement of clusters from one stage of growth to the next, as the number of activities and those engaged in them multiply.
Our prayers are offered that all who participate in and assist in the growth of the training institute process may be reinforced with divine confirmations.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
National Spiritual Assembly
Patrick O’Mara,
Secretary