Members of High Priest Quorum showing in Elders Quorum

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Re: Members of High Priest Quorum showing in Elders Quorum

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leidasolo wrote:"Because stake presidencies and bishoprics are responsible for all members of the stake or ward, these brethren are not generally assigned as ministering brothers to specific individuals or families."
In the language of the Handbook, the power of "no" is something like "shalt not", "should not" and "not generally", with the latter as being fairly weak.

To me "not generally" isn't the same as "the function will not be available in LCR". I can see why a bishop would want a specific member assigned to him (or one of the bishopric). The bishop might have a reason for not having them be assigned to someone else and there isn't any other way to classify the person in such a way as to prevent them from being assigned. (Unassigned for a reason.)

In other words, I can understand the logic of not assigning the bishopric to the general pool of Ministers, but doesn't exclude the idea of having specific families assigned to them to accomodate special situations. To me, that's still in harmony with the directive quoted above.

However, the stake president does have the keys of interpretation for his units. If you have any special situations, it might be worth talking to him about that.
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Re: Members of High Priest Quorum showing in Elders Quorum

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Members of the stake high priests quorum are not official members of the ward elders quorum, but they appear on the ward elders quorum lists to facilitate the following: (1) assigning ministering brothers to their family, (2) so they appear on attendance rolls to be counted in priesthood meeting attendance, and (3) so they appear on phone lists so they can be included in activities, service projects, and such.
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Re: Members of High Priest Quorum showing in Elders Quorum

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Thank you! Very helpful. Is there a reason, scgallafent, why there’s not a HP quorum list on the Stake level? Simply not needed, or?
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leidasolo wrote:Thank you! Very helpful. Is there a reason, scgallafent, why there’s not a HP quorum list on the Stake level? Simply not needed, or?
I believe the plan was to have that as part of the Aug 1 release.
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leidasolo wrote:Thank you! Very helpful. Is there a reason, scgallafent, why there’s not a HP quorum list on the Stake level? Simply not needed, or?
As jonesrk said, it is planned for a future release. There is some discussion about whether it will make the August 1 release.

Part of what is needed went into a test environment on Friday and the LCR side still needs to be finished and tested. The ministering changes are top priority, so the high priests quorum list depends on whether there are any higher priority issues with ministering that need to be addressed.

You won't see it if it is released, since I believe it is only visible to stake leaders.
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