Action and Reflection

The Bahá'í approach to community building is not a fixed plan executed from above but a living, iterative process of growth. At its heart is a four part cycle — Study, Action, Reflection, and Consultation — through which a community builds capacity, goes out and serves, honestly examines what it is learning, and brings those insights back to the table to inform what comes next. This is not a complicated idea, but embedding it deeply enough into community life that it becomes second nature takes years of patient practice. By 2029 we hold a vision of a community that has done that work — where study, action, reflection, and consultation are not items on an agenda but the natural rhythm of how we move forward together. Every home visit, every children's class, every meaningful conversation, every gift made for Celebration feeds back into this cycle and makes us wiser, more capable, and more unified. This Waypoint marks our intention to become not just a community that does good things, but a community that learns its way into doing them better.