Young single adults should frequently be called to serve together on service committees. These committees report to a ward or stake leader assigned by the bishopric or by the ward or stake young single adult committee.
The service often focuses on Church programs such as welfare, family history, public outreach communication , missionary work, activation efforts among young single adults, or support for Church facilities or projects.
This service may also focus on humanitarian needs locally or elsewhere. Service committees provide opportunities to develop friendships and meet potential marriage partners. They also teach leadership and social skills. Priesthood leaders may organize one or more home evening groups for young single adults who do not live with their parents and do not have children in their homes. If possible, priesthood leaders appoint a young single adult priesthood holder to lead each group.
In stakes with few young single adults, stake leaders may organize home evening groups that cross ward boundaries. Home evening group leaders are accountable to assigned priesthood leaders. Informally and as organized by participants, young single adults may gather to strengthen one another through gospel study. Wards with enough young single adults may have a separate Sunday School class for young single adults see All young single adults are encouraged to enroll in institute classes see If institute classes are not available, local leaders may contact the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion area office for assistance.
As needed, local leaders may organize other group opportunities for weekday gospel study. Multistake and area activities can give young single adults opportunities for social interaction, leadership, and service without leaving the ecclesiastical care of their bishops. Area Seventies work with stake presidents to establish multistake committees to organize such activities.
These Area Seventies work under the direction of the Area Presidency. Multistake committees should include young single adult leaders. Multistake committees should plan activities that are varied, simple, and inexpensive and that allow for ample social interaction. These committees coordinate with young single adult wards and institutes of religion to achieve an appropriate balance of activities and to avoid duplication and scheduling conflicts.
For additional guidelines on organizing these activities, see Normally, funding for young single adult activities comes from the stake or ward budget. When multistake or area activities are held, the responsible priesthood leader ensures a fair allocation of funding among the stakes. Funding for activities should be consistent with the policies in As an exception, when large multistake or area events are held, young single adults may occasionally be asked to pay some costs themselves.
However, leaders should ensure that all young single adults have the opportunity to participate without incurring unreasonable personal costs. Where local circumstances and the number of young single adult members make it desirable, priesthood leaders may recommend the creation of a young single adult ward according to the guidelines in Eligible members may, in consultation with their parents, choose to be members of the young single adult ward or to remain in their conventional ward.
The stake president may authorize the young single adult ward to find and fellowship other young single adult members of the stake who are less active. Those who become active may then choose to belong to the young single adult ward or to their conventional ward. With approval from the stake president, the bishop of a young single adult ward may organize a second Relief Society for young single adult women and a second elders quorum for young single adult men to provide additional opportunities for young single adults to serve and associate with each other.
Membership in a young single adult ward is temporary. Leaders help young single adults prepare to return to a conventional ward when they marry or reach age This transition should provide sufficient time and communication to help the bishop of the conventional ward plan for a calling that helps each transitioning young single adult feel welcome and needed. Priesthood leaders may recommend the creation of a young single adult stake according to the guidelines in That section also provides guidelines for membership and leadership in these stakes.
Young single adult wards use the regular program of the Church as much as possible. Stake presidents and bishops of young single adult stakes and wards follow the principles and instructions in this handbook. This includes instructions for welfare assistance, finances, and budget.
Officers of conventional stakes and wards should cooperate fully when their members are requested by authorized priesthood leaders to serve as leaders in young single adult stakes and wards. Photograph by John Luke. February The Value of a Good Name L. Tom Perry. Becoming Joseph Ricardo Reyes Villalta. Generations Richard M. President M. He then spoke about unmarried church members again during a conference session on Saturday.
We can do better at providing opportunities for our single members to serve. We long to help all who feel this way. Let me mention, in particular, those who are currently single.
Reaction from single adults, young single adults, a YSA stake president and more of what President Ballard, Elder Gong and another church leader have said about the changes follows:. I think it validates the hope that all YSAs have that they are loved and of great value. Whether they are married or not I think they will be a force for good. Selee served a church mission in Houston. Ryenne Wood, 21, returned in October from a mission in Los Angeles.
In fact, she just asked for one. They return home and miss the heavy responsibilities and constant service of their missions. Young people need to learn how to contribute and I think we do have a lot to contribute. Hackett, who thought the new callings might be a joke, serves a stake high councilor, assisting with wards in the Midvale Utah Union Fort Stake. He said a single woman serves in the stake Relief Society presidency. Hackett said the possible of new callings raises the bar for singles in the church and could lead to greater understanding.
Wayne Janzen is president of the Washington D. YSA Stake. Five years after it was created with seven congregations, it now has 13, with membership growing from 1, to 2, Janzen strategically keeps congregations smaller to provide more leadership opportunities to more single members.
He also instructs leaders throughout the stake to turn over callings more often so members have more opportunities to serve, and serve in different ways. Janzen learned about the policy update in an official communication from church headquarters. Does he expect to call young single adults into some of the newly available positions? Janzen said young single adults step up in leadership callings.
Many had good intentions. But that authority that was given by God to baptize, preach the gospel, and hold all the keys to run His church on earth was brought back and restored through a prophet, just as it was in the past. Lots of people think members of our faith are supposed to be perfect robot clones of each other!
At least, that's what it feels like sometimes. Nobody is perfect, and everyone in our religion or any other for that matter struggles with something. We may not always follow our faith perfectly, and we make mistakes, but most of us share a same goal: to try to follow the example of our Savior and be united as families for all eternity.
I am in no way going to say that being a Mormon means you'll have no trials. But, many of us can handle our hard times and our struggles much easier with the knowledge we do have. Happiness is so much more abundant when we follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and try to be better everyday. People often ask me how I can be so happy all the time, and it's because I know where I came from, why I'm here, and where I'm going.
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