On Baha’i Junior Youth: Embracing vision

Montreal Junior Youth have a blog and great insights to share. -gw

Junior Youth (JY for short) are those aged between 11 and 15 who are going through intense transformations in a very short period of time. Not only do they radically change physically in the span of these 4 years, but their thought process change just as radically. These changes occur in a way to ready these junior youth to become adults; after all, Baha’u’llah designated the age of 15 as the beginning of maturity. …

The Universal House of Justice tells us that: “Strategies to advance the process of entry by troops cannot ignore children and junior youth, if the victories won in one generation are not to be lost with the passage of time. It is imperative, then, that at this point in the process of systematization of the teaching work, definite steps be taken to ensure that the vision of the community fully embraces its young members.”

http://montrealjunioryouth.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/what-are-junior-youth-groups/

 Photo: “Junior Youth Deep in Study,” uploaded on August 11, 2008 by asherbyron on flickr