Alan_Brown wrote:Could you help me understand how this helps?
I do not think it would be worth the trouble, but I think the original proposal was not to take anyone off of their current roll, but to create a new class and populate it with members of the ward who teach or work outside of the Relief Society or Melchizedek Priesthood.
For example, Sister Jones would be on the RS roll, but would also be in the Out of RS "class". The clerk would give the regular RS roll to the RS along with the Out of RS Class Roll, which would remind the RS secretary/presidency that Sister Jones had another calling and should not be forgotten.
The question would be where to put such an extra "class", and whether to have one with both brothers and sisters on it, or a separate one for each organization (RS, EQ, HP).
That is how I understood the proposal. But, once again, I think it is complicated, difficult to keep up, and it would be better if the organization leaders knew why their members were absent, either that they were truly inactive, or rather that they never attended because they were faithfully teaching in Primary or Young Men or Young Women.
In other words, I think the current system is very good and the "know your sheep" principle might be the easiest way to handle the problem.
And yes, lots of training.
There was something to be said for the old system where we used to have to provide lists of names of those who did not attend. Everyone in our stake agonized over the requirement (and it may have just been the stake president who required it), but a whole lot of leaders quickly learned what their members were doing when they were not in a Melchizedek Priesthood Quorum or Relief Society on Sunday.