1st IGP in Sarawak Launched
16 July 2008
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Dateline 25 March 2005: After much preliminary discussion, consultation and preparation, the first ever Intensive Growth Programme (IGP) for Sarawak was successfully launched for the Kuching-Padawan-Samarahan cluster in the evening of 25 March 2005 amidst much fanfare in an inspiring candle-lighting ceremony. More than 60 friends came for the launching held at the Kuching Baha’i Centre.
This launching was the culmination of many meetings, the first of which was held on 5 March at the start of the fasting month of Ala. In that first meeting, held at the Kota Padawan Baha’i Centre, Counsellor George Soraya spoke and inspired the more than 40 people present to realise the potential and capability of the community to launch an Intensive Growth Programme for the cluster.
Subsequently, the Area Teaching Committee for the cluster met on 12 March and decided to launch a 4-month cycle of growth, commencing with a 2-week intensive teaching campaign starting on 26 March 2005. A preliminary schedule of the IGP was prepared and presented to the local spiritual assemblies on 16 March and then to the community at large on 23 March. To ensure success, training on teaching was held for the participants on 25 Mar morning and afternoon. This was followed with the launching of the IGP the same evening.
The meetings on 16, 23 and 25 March received overwhelming response from the friends, with the Centre packed with many enthusiastic participants on both occasions, all eager to launch the 1st IGP in Sarawak. By the time of the launch on 25 March evening, everyone among the more than 60 people present was in high spirit and confident of achieving the targets of the 2 week intensive teaching campaign that would kick off the next day.
The targets of the intensive teaching campaign call for no less than 20 teaching teams being formed and of getting 54 seekers among 540 contacts to be made during the campaign period.
“This is the first time that I have seen such high spirit and eagerness among the friends to bring the healing message of Baha’u'llah to their friends and relatives, and it feels good to see a teaching campaign of this nature being enthusiastically participated by the friends,” enthused a “veteran” Baha’i at the close of the launching ceremony.
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