Authorizing out-of-stake patriarchal blessings
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 11:56 am
My father is a stake patriarch. As such, he is authorized to give patriarchal blessings to any of his direct descendants that live outside his stake. He’s given it to some of my children. However the process to do so is very cumbersome. Since I’m a techie (and my father is not,) four of my nieces and nephews and other friends have contacted me to help their bishop/stake president figure out how to do it.
The bishop has to put in the out-of-stake patriarch’s membership number online. That’s easy enough. But it gets stuck at the stake level. The stake say they’ve approved it and the bishop sees that it’s still pending stake approval and my father cannot yet see it when he logs in.
From what I have been told, the stake president and only the stake president has the button in his online account to make that approval. The counselors don’t and the stake clerks and executive secretaries don’t. When the counselors log in, they don’t see anything for them to do so they think it’s all approved, but it’s not. The stake president has to log in, then go to the patriarchal blessing screen, and somewhere in there is a button that he has to push. Only after he pushes that button will the information show up on the patriarch’s screen.
My request is that LCR be improved so that the bishop, the stake presidency counselors, and any other applicable leaders, see a note by the member’s patriarchal blessing entry that points them to the stake president. Something like, “*Note: This person’s patriarchal blessing recommendation can only be approved by the stake president.” Then when the bishop sees it, or when the stake presidency counselors see it, or anybody else, they know what needs to happen to get it approved.
It looks like this forum allows new posts to be created in certain areas based on one’s calling. Since I’m not a leader or a clerk, I’m just a lowly member, this is one of the few places I found where I could post a new topic, even though it probably fits better somewhere else.
The bishop has to put in the out-of-stake patriarch’s membership number online. That’s easy enough. But it gets stuck at the stake level. The stake say they’ve approved it and the bishop sees that it’s still pending stake approval and my father cannot yet see it when he logs in.
From what I have been told, the stake president and only the stake president has the button in his online account to make that approval. The counselors don’t and the stake clerks and executive secretaries don’t. When the counselors log in, they don’t see anything for them to do so they think it’s all approved, but it’s not. The stake president has to log in, then go to the patriarchal blessing screen, and somewhere in there is a button that he has to push. Only after he pushes that button will the information show up on the patriarch’s screen.
My request is that LCR be improved so that the bishop, the stake presidency counselors, and any other applicable leaders, see a note by the member’s patriarchal blessing entry that points them to the stake president. Something like, “*Note: This person’s patriarchal blessing recommendation can only be approved by the stake president.” Then when the bishop sees it, or when the stake presidency counselors see it, or anybody else, they know what needs to happen to get it approved.
It looks like this forum allows new posts to be created in certain areas based on one’s calling. Since I’m not a leader or a clerk, I’m just a lowly member, this is one of the few places I found where I could post a new topic, even though it probably fits better somewhere else.