From: the NSA Baha’is United States, 25 February 2017
Re: America and the Five Year Plan
Recent message via email:
“We greet you warmly and with deepest affection on its behalf as we share with you, at its direction, two letters from the National Spiritual Assembly.
“The first is a cover letter addressed to all believers, which is intended to introduce the second, a letter conveying the National Assembly’s thoughts on the current troubling state of affairs in our country and on our most effective response as Bahá’ís.”
—NSA Baha’is United States <secretariat@usbnc.org>
February 25, 2017
To the American Bahá’í community
Dearest Bahá’í Friends,
We are pleased to share with you the attached letter addressing the current state of affairs in our nation and the opportunities it presents, through various means, to advance the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh on the oneness of humanity.
We have chosen to distribute the letter widely in hopes it will be studied with great care individually and will become a focus for frequent small group and community reflections.
Be assured of our prayers that your discussions will be both unifying and productive of great results.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Kenneth E. Bowers
Secretary
National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of the United States
Attachment .pdf for download:
Cover Letter and “America and the Five Year Plan”
Author: Lynette Wilson, Publisher
Lynette grew up in the small Wisconsin town of Boscobel, home of the Gideon Bible. After attending college at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Platteville achieving an A.A. degree she decided a break was needed n order to figure out which academic discipline she wanted to pursue. While contemplating intensely on her choices she met and married Fernando. Lynette returned to college and studied Small Business Management and Bookkeeping. After several years of working in management she found herself once again meditating on her future. The powers that be answered and she returned to the academic life in pursuit of a double major in Physical and Occupational Therapy. She found time to assist in the Special Resource Center helping quadriplegics and the legally blind in the classroom setting as well as reading for the blind. In the midst of her professional goals she had a difficult pregnancy which temporarily (...so she thought) would interrupt her coursework. She attempted to return to her studies, but the stork visited a second time. After the birth of their daughter, an unwelcomed visitor arrived a year and a half later, Brain Cancer. After 7 years of fighting, Fernando passed away. (2003) This experience...
