Potential Calamities and Ensuring Sustainability of Communities

by Shoghi Effendi and Universal House of Justice

Intro: This compilation was shared by the NSA of the United States, sent by email 2020/12/16. The email referred to the compilation by the title "Guidance on calamitous events and our response to them," but the filename of the email attachment was "Compilation on Potential Calamities and Ensuring Sustainability of Communities.pdf." The email included this blurb:

We direct your attention to a letter from the Universal House of Justice dated December 3. The letter was written in reply to an American believer who had both expressed concern about the calamitous state of world affairs and suggested that the Bahá’í community undertake projects to ensure the material sustainability of communities.

Knowing these are matters much on the minds of the friends, we have received permission to share the letter with you with all personal identifiers removed. Accessible through the link below, the letter is accompanied by a compilation counseling Bahá’ís to avoid dwelling on the perilous state of world affairs and to refuse to allow them to deter us from our vital community-building work.