To all National Spiritual Assemblies
Dear friends,
While it is understood that many communities do not have the
resources to fully sustain their administrative and teaching work, it is
important that each National Assembly make every effort to work out a programme
and budget which will enable it to become self-sustaining as rapidly as
possible.
To accomplish this, the friends should be made to appreciate
the bounties which come from regular and systematic contribution to the
National Fund. The amount of the contribution is not as important as universal
participation. In a letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Central and
East Africa dated 8 August 1957 the beloved Guardian said:
The institution of the National Fund, so vital and essential
for the uninterrupted progress of these activities must, in particular, be
assured of the wholehearted the ever-increasing and universal support of the
mass of believers, for whose welfare, and in whose name, these beneficent
activities have been initiated and have been conducted. All, no matter how
modest their resources, must participate. ...
National Assemblies needing supplemental assistance for
budgets after Ridvan, 1964 should direct their appeal to the Universal House of
Justice. They should not appeal to another National Assembly except in specific
cases authorized by the Universal House of Justice.
We shall pray that the bounties of the Almighty will descend
upon the growing Administrative Order of His promised Kingdom on Earth so that
we may be enabled to take His healing message to all peoples everywhere.
With loving greetings,
The Universal House of Justice
(Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986)
