Using the “One Coordinated Effort” video found on www.lds.org under Effective Ministering, our stake presidency has tried over the past six months to encourage ward EQ and RS presidencies to assume more responsibility—including missionary work, teaching the gospel and temple and family history—in order to shift that load from the bishopric so they can focus on the youth and their families (a direction we have felt come from the Brethren).
Now we want to give the bishops a tool to work with parents of all children to teach them how to assume more responsibility for teaching the gospel to their children in the home—especially in preparing their children to receive the saving gospel ordinances.
As a stake presidency, we have drafted the attached four-page document that we are planning to give to bishops during our stake conference training the weekend after General Conference (Oct 13-14). We will ask bishops to personally present this document (or a variation of it) to ALL parents in their wards with an explanation of how strongly the stake presidency feels that we need parents to step up if we’re going to prepare, in some cases rescue, the rising generation.
Because all of you are amazing parents (or parents-to-be), in my opinion, would you be a sounding board for this often-apprehensive priesthood leader before we move forward?
How would you react if you received this document from your bishop?
Would you feel overwhelmed or guilty?
Would you want to follow this counsel or would you feel burdened by it?
I hope it’s not too much to ask of you during these busy days to review this. I’ll take whatever feedback you can give me. I welcome your candid feelings.
Please know how much I love all of you, admire you so much and consider you the most amazing parents on the planet. Wish we could clone all of you and move you into our stake…or better yet, just move you into our stake! :)
With the deepest of love and gratitude for your marvelous examples of faithfulness,
Dad Lewis
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