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The current handbook allows for the collection of funds from participating members for one girls camp, one boys camp and one day-camp per year. (HB#2 13.2.8) It is this policy that the wards in our stake have used in the past to fund camps (collect from members). It might be a rumor but we were led ...

In the wards of our stake the funds to support a girls and boys camp as well as a primary day camp have been paid for by a fee/head by the parents of the youth attending. If I understand correctly, we are not to request funds from members for these activities any longer. So in order to have these ev...

It is our understanding that for the new youth program beginning Jan 1 that funds should not be solicited from members to pay for youth activities such as camps. Is the intent for the youth leaders to spend less on weekly youth activities to preserve budget funds to cover the cost of youth camps and...

As the ward YW Presidencies in our stake implement the more flexible way they are now allowed to group the YW, including naming these groups, they and ward clerks are reporting that LCR is very restrictive in what it will allow the groups to be named. The most troubling to them is the enforcement th...

drepouille wrote:If a new president is called, and he wants to retain either or both of the current counselors, then the counselor(s) must also be released, interviewed, called, sustained, and set apart.

This sounds correct, is there a reference for this in the Handbook?

If a bishop called an Assistant Ward Clerk to be over historical work what besides the Ward History would he do?
Seems like there are two different position define to do the same thing?

Handbook 2 (13.4.3) states that an Assistant Ward Clerk can be called to be over "historical records", among other things like finance, membership, etc. I understand that the Ward Clerk is responsible to create the annual ward history which I'm assuming falls under (or is) this reference o...

In the pamphlet "Church History Guides" the #1 stated purpose of creating Ward and Stake Histories is to "Bring members closer to Christ by helping them remember what God has done for His children and that He always fulfills His promises." This statement strongly suggests that th...

Last Sunday we officially changed the names of 6 wards in our Stake. Can I get a few of you that have been through this recently to talk about the ramifications of this. Topics like: Updating stationary, donation envelopes, checks, bank accounts, signs and plaques, (?), etc. HQ told me that nothing ...

Can I get a few of you to comment on the success/failures, pros/cons of a Patriarch using Dragon?
Thanks