Baha\'i activities in Delhi (India)

This report of Baha’i conversion activity by deception is published in a Baha’i News letter REFLECTION ON GROWTH Issue 15, February 2007, page 5.

Here it is clearly reported that the Baha’i children classes and Junior Youths classes are only for systematic deceptive conversion and through these activities they target the parents as well and they take declaration from them that they are Baha’is. These numbers are then shown to Government of India for gaining the minority status We have just produced the report verbatim without any addition or deletion. The mention of “WIDER COMMUNITY” in the report means “HINDU COMMUNITY”. All these deceptive activities for NON BAHA’I CHILDREN are done in the name of SERVICE TO THE SOCIETY. The Baha’is are master of Hypocrisy and Deception.

These activities are well planned by Iranians and American masters and executed by unfortunate Indians in return of few Rupees. What a BETRAYL of the country!!!.

Children\'s classes and junior youth groups have proved to be excellent portals in India for gaining new participants for study circles because they provide an opportunity to reach out to new families. This is well illustrated by the recent expansion phase of the intensive program of growth in the capital city, New Delhi. In May 2006, after several cycles with only fair results, the community decided to make a consistent, intense effort to carry out children\'s classes, junior youth classes, and study circles. It identified six neighborhoods and then set about establishing classes for children and junior youth, primarily with the children of non-Baha\'i families. The Baha\'is worked hard to make the classes regular and to follow the prescribed curricula. This careful approach created a strong bond among the children\'s class teachers, the junior youth animators, and the tutors within each of the six neighborhoods.

Of course, an essential component of the classes was service. As the parents witnessed the transformation in their children and were impressed by their acts of service, they became more open to the Faith. During the expansion phase of the seventh cycle (January 2007), large devotional gatherings were held in each of the six neighborhoods. The children and junior youth chanted prayers, presented skits, and gave speeches about what they had learned. The speeches of the junior youth in particular moved the hearts of the parents and the others present.

After the children were given refreshments and excused, the adults at each gathering were subdivided into small groups of five or six, and teachers positioned in each. The teachers began to teach the Faith directly to their small group. One participant related what happened.

“This was unprecedented for the Delhi community. We had no experience in doing this. However, we had made up our minds--and did it with many, many prayers and all the courage and audacity that we could muster. The adults were divided into small groups, and each group had a Baha\'i who directly taught them the Faith with the help of the \"teaching album.\" We found the album to be a very effective tool.

It prevented us from losing our focus and enabled us to present the Faith in a logical sequence and to quote from the Writings of Baha\'u\'llah.

In our previous cycles of activity we had large-scale devotional gatherings; however, they were not followed by direct teaching in small groups. We had talks--and the approach was rather \"impersonal\"--hence these events had resulted only in increasing our community of interest. In this expansion phase, the direct teaching in small groups allowed for a more personal and intimate atmosphere.

The teacher sat with five or six individuals and constantly had eye contact with them. The seekers felt more comfortable in a small group to ask questions and were at ease when they were asked whether they would like to enroll as Baha\'is. 

As a result of this direct teaching approach in neighborhoods, during the intensive two-week expansion phase of the seventh cycle, 206 people were enrolled in the Faith in Delhi. During the four cycles of the previous year, this cluster had a total of about 100 enrollments. Most of the new believers are parents of the children and junior youth attending the Baha\'i classes, and they have now swelled the numbers of those entering Book 1. Because close working relationships had already developed among the teachers of the children\'s classes, the junior youth animators, and the tutors, establishing study circles with the new believers in the six targeted neighborhoods is being accomplished with relative ease.

The Task of Building an Ever-Expanding Pyramid of Human Resources.

Communities are encountering challenges as they endeavor to continually expand the institute process, an element essential to sustaining growth. Various challenges need to be addressed. For example, some communities have exhausted their pool of believers and so must turn more to attracting the wider community, yet are uncertain how to achieve this. Others have difficulty stimulating the participants to move from one course to the next. Finally, numerous communities find that a significant number of those who complete the full sequence of courses are nonetheless hesitant to tutor a study circle.
(Reflections on Growth--Number 15, February 2007, Page 5)

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