American Seven Year Plan (1937-1944)

First Seven Year Plan (1937-1944)
Epoch	First Epoch
Coordinator	Shoghi Effendi
Protagonists	United States and Canada

Divine Plan

Shoghi Effendi

First Epoch (1937-1963)

1st Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) Indian Six Year Plan (1938-1944) British Six Year Plan (1944-1950) 2nd Seven Year Plan (1946-1953) Indian 4½ Year Plan (1946-1950) Persian 45 Month Plan (1946-1950) Persian Women's Four Year Plan (1946-1950) Australian Six Year Plan (1947-1953) Canadian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) German Five Year Plan (1948-1953) African Campaign (1950-1953) Iraqi Three Year Plan (1950-1953) British Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953) South American Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Central American One Year Plan (1952-1953) Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) Northeast Asian Six Year Plan (1957-1963)

Universal House of Justice

Second Epoch (1964-2021)

Nine Year Plan (1964-1973) Five Year Plan (1974-1979) Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) Six Year Plan (1986-1992) Three Year Plan (1993-1996) Four Year Plan (1996-2000) Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) Five Year Plan (2001-2006) Five Year Plan (2006-2011) Five Year Plan (2011-2016) Five Year Plan (2016-2021)

Third Epoch (2021-)

Twelve Month Plan (2021-2022) Nine Year Plan (2022-2031)

The First Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) was given by Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of The United States and Canada. It was the first systematic teaching plan in the Bahá’í world and marked the first organized response of the American believers to the mandate given to them in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Divine Plan. As other National Spiritual Assemblies were formed and gained in strength, they developed active campaigns and were given similar plans, largely aimed at their own internal expansion.

Objectives

1. Completion of the exterior of the Temple in Wilmette
2. The formation of a Spiritual Assembly in each state and province of North America, and in Alaska
3. The establishment of a center in each republic of Latin America and the Caribbean

Outcome

• Local Spiritual Assemblies elected in every province of Canada, every state of the United States of America, and 14 republics of Latin America
• Homefront goals achieved:
  • 136 Local Spiritual Assemblies
  • 197 Baha'i groups
  • 1300 localities with Baha'is
• Exterior ornamentation of the House of Worship completed

References

• The Universal House of Justice. The Bahá’í World - An International Record Vol XVI 1973-1976 page 77. Haifa, Israel: World Centre Publications.