Baha'i youth should be encouraged to think of their studies
and of their training for a trade or profession as part of their service to the
Cause of God and in the context of a lifetime that will be devoted to advancing
the interests of the Faith. At the same time, during their years of study,
youth are often able to offer specific periods of weeks or months, or even of a
year or more, during which they can devote themselves to travel teaching or to
serving the Baha'i community in other ways, such as conducting children's
classes in remote villages. They should be encouraged to offer such service,
which will in itself be admirable experience for the future, and the National
Assembly should instruct an appropriate committee to receive such offers and to
organize their implementation so as to derive the greatest possible advantage
from them. - The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated Naw-Ruz 1974
to all National Spiritual Assemblies; Messages from the Universal House of
Justice, ‘1963-1986’)
