Teaching team
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A teaching team or teaching group is an informal grouping of a small number of Bahá'ís who feel able to co-ordinate their efforts in proclaiming or teaching the Faith. No restrictions are imposed on these arrangements. The team could be a handful of believers within a community who share a common outlook or interest, or who perceive that they have free time. It could consist of people from neighbouring communities who feel capable of doing more with mutual support. After all, 'Abdu'l-Bahá said, "God loves those who work in groups."
A teaching team may decide to visit a nearby village, for the purpose of spreading the Faith, or to start meeting in a café, in the hope of striking up meaningful conversations, or of getting inspiration for further initiatives. The team may meet to pray for the success of teaching, organise home visits to others, put up posters for a forthcoming meeting, etc.
Administratively, the teaching team is not an arm of a Local Spiritual Assembly, nor of any other Bahá'í institution. It is a spontaneous response to Bahá'u'lláh's injunction to teach His Message.
Although teaching teams can be formed at any time, they are sometimes recommended as a way forward by the Learned Arm of the Faith, when no Local Spiritual Assemblies exist in an area, or when the Local Assemblies are for some reason unable to provide an effective lead in the promotion of teaching work.
The concept of teaching teams was introduced even before the new concentration on "core activities".
