(Summary) Stake Leadership Meeting - Jeopardy & Presidents

We know several of you weren’t able to make it to our Stake Auxiliary Leadership Training meeting on Thursday (May 14th) , so we wanted to give you a “Reader’s Digest” version of what happened.

In our general meeting with everyone, we played a Jeopardy-like game with questions about Sharing Time, Music, Sacrament Meeting programs, Responsibilities, and Dos and Don’ts. Many of the questions came from the Church Handbook of Instructions. I’ll reprint the questions and answers here. The referenced page numbers following the answer are from either the Handbook or the 2009 Outline for Sharing Time.

Below are a few of the questions -

· What is it called when one week of the month a Primary class teaches the Sharing Time? [Class Presentation (p. 1)]
· Where are other places to look for Sharing Time resources? [(p. 2, 12) lds.org and the Friend magazine]
· During Sharing Time we should, “open them, teach from them, testify of them . . . each week”. What are they? [The scriptures. (p. 1)]

After everyone did a great job answering the questions, we separated into smaller groups for more directed discussions. (Summaries from each class are listed below this post).

The presidents talked about reverence in our primaries (and homes). Most of the information was taken from the talk “Respect and Reverence” by Margaret S. Lifferth (Ensign, May, 2009).

In a quote from President Howard W. Hunter it says “Reverence is the atmosphere of heaven". Sis. Lifferth points out that if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness is our training begets resentment, not reverence. We must begin teaching it early and have reasonable expectations. In doing so, we need to remember that we are teaching a child his first lessons in reverence, but the child may be mastering his first attempts at self-discipline as well. In all things we do, we do it line upon line, precept on precept.

Orienting New LeadersA training and orientation handout was shared in the recent Primary training. It shares the vision and goals of the Primary general presidency. It can be used to orient new Primary leaders to their callings and as a guide for auxiliary and priesthood leaders for ongoing leadership training.

PS:

The complete email from Lori Kurtz will be sent to all of the Primary Presidents. Please share the email with members of your Presidency who may not have been able to attend the Stake Leadership Meeting!