Re: Ministering assignments
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:34 am
Can ministering assingments be edited in the LDS tools app or from a smart phone?
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Thanks for clarifying the matter.lajackson wrote:That would be because it is not there to be gotten by individual members. I do not know if this is on the radar as a future feature or not.msd360 wrote:I cannot find a way to get this information from lds.org.
Just as with the former home and visiting teaching system, you can make assignments without "little strips of white paper". The expected way is that a member of the presidency will visit with each ministering companionship and the companionship will take notes (unless they have excellent memories).msd360 wrote:I have been approached by a representative of the relief society , , , who is , , , aware of the admonishment from the pulpit that there will be no more "little strips of white paper".
Incidentally, you shouldn't need to be getting information for the Relief Society. The presidency has access to all the information they need to conduct ministering interviews and to make ministering assignments.
"Little strips of white paper" have never been needed in the process of these assignments. I have been at this for over 45 years and have never been given such a thing.
Individual members can see their own assignments as well as the Ministering Elders and Ministering Sisters assigned to them in the LDSTools app.lelarso wrote: My takeaway from all this discussion is that it seems that ministering assignments are not accessible to non-presidency members of elders quorums and relief societies.
Things do change. Ministering assignments are now available in LDS Tools. Perhaps at some point the assignments will be available on lds.org. We know there are changes to lds.org (at least LCR) that are to come.lelarso wrote:My takeaway from all this discussion is that it seems that ministering assignments are not accessible to non-presidency members of elders quorums and relief societies.
16. How do members receive their ministering assignment?
Leaders meet with ministering brothers and sisters—preferably as companionships—to share their assignments with them and to counsel about the strengths, needs, and challenges of those to whom they minister. This conversation could take place in a ministering interview (see question 20, below) or whenever needed.
I have seen plenty of LSOWP, just never received any. I always preferred to take my own notes as I visited with my quorum and group leaders. It was my subtle reminder to those leaders that the stewardship (now ministering) interview was the key to successfully taking care of the members for whom we were responsible.lelarso wrote:BTW, your 45 years without little strips of white paper (LSOWP) must surely be anecdotal. In my years as a Church member since MLS then LCR were fielded, I've only ever been given LSOWP during interviews with my quorum/group leaders.
+1lajackson wrote:And for the record, as long as there is an interview along with it, I am okay with the LSOWP.
The scriptural basis for ministering (and its predecessors) comes from section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants, where in verse 47 we are instructed to "visit the house of each member, and exhort them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all family duties." The bishop also has a scriptural mandate to seek out those in need, not just to wait for them to ask for help (see Doctrine and Covenants 44:6 and 52:40, for example). To do that, he needs to have some way of knowing how his members are doing, and the elders quorum and Relief Society help him with that responsibility.wynnrichards wrote:I mean this with the utmost respect, why are there ministering assignments in the first place?