16 June 1988
To all National Spiritual Assemblies
WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS CONVEY TO THE FOLLOWERS OF BAHÁULLÁH THROUGH OUT WORLD JOYFUL NEWS FIRST MEETING NEWLY APPOINTED INTERNATIONAL TEACHING CENTER.
ON MORNING OF FRIDAY THIRD JUNE THE HANDS OF THE CAUSE AMATUL-BAHA RUHÍYYIH KHÁNUM AND ALI AKBAR FURUTAN, THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE AND THE NINE COUNSELOR MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TEACHING CENTER GATHERED IN BAHJI AND ENTERED THE MOST HOLY SHRINE FOR PRAYERS BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE MANSION OF BAHÁULLÁH WHERE THEIR FIRST JOINT MEETING WAS HELD IN ROOM ASSOCIATED WITH SHOGHI EFFENDI. ALL WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE INESTIMABLE BLESSING OF INITATING THEIR CONSULTATIONS IN THESE SACRED PRECINCTS.
IN THIS AND SUBSEQUENT CONSULTATIONS DURING THE DAYS WHICH FOLLOWED, THE TASKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TEACHING CENTER IN FACE OF THE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHING NOW BEFORE THE BAHÂÍ WORLD WERE REVIEWED, AND NEW PATTERNS OF OPERATION WERE FORMULATED.
REJOICE NEW VISTAS OPENING FOR VICTORIOUS PROMOTION CAUSE GOD.
The Universal House of Justice
(Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001)
