A Note to Baha'i Communities

For future reference, when a travel-teacher comes to your town and offers to do anything to help support the efforts of the Five Year Plan, here are some good ideas:

Tutor an intensive.
Help believers deepen on the December 27 letter.
Discuss the new Junior Youth Groups and where they fit into a comprehensive scheme of lifelong Baha'i education, sharing personal experiences as an Animator.
Share her community's experiences with the decentralization of the core activities.

Especially if these are some things she offered to do in her email.

When a travel-teacher comes anymore, she is not looking to give an introductory talk on the Faith to one seeker and a group of Baha'is, who are perfectly capable of doing the Book 6 practices on their own. She is not looking to have a proclamation event to which she can provide absolutely followup. Those days are far in the past, folks. What this DOES tell me is that the community here needs more help than I thought.

Of course, now I have to figure out what to say.

Hm.