Maureen Lake, what kind of adjustments has your stake made to include the youth?   Families Are Forever Carol Riner Everett ________________________________ From: Maureen Lake <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Calling youth for FH Consultants Our stake president instructed each bishop in our stake to call a youth to serve as a family history consultant.  The plan is to call a second one of the opposite gender in about six months. I have had a youth serving with me for the las two years.  It has been a journey. I would think that Elder Bednar's talk last conference would have settled the question.  Youth can and should serve in family history callings.  We've adjusted our family history program in the stake to include and embrace the ideal. Maureen Lake Sent from my iPad On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Chuck Woodings <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes > are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know > what the churches position is on this practice.  I feel it would be a very > good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. > Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your > experience. > Thank you! > > Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Carol, We are a stake in family history transition. Two years ago, apathy and downright hostility were the responses to any mention of the subject. That is slowly changing. Our family history consultants meet together once a month with the High Council rep over family history. Th On Mar 5, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Carol Riner Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > Maureen Lake, what kind of adjustments has your stake made to include the youth? > > > Families Are Forever > Carol Riner Everett > > > > ________________________________ > From: Maureen Lake <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:28 PM > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Calling youth for FH Consultants > > Our stake president instructed each bishop in our stake to call a youth to serve as a family history consultant. The plan is to call a second one of the opposite gender in about six months. > > I have had a youth serving with me for the las two years. It has been a journey. > > I would think that Elder Bednar's talk last conference would have settled the question. Youth can and should serve in family history callings. We've adjusted our family history program in the stake to include and embrace the ideal. > > Maureen Lake > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Chuck Woodings <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes >> are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know >> what the churches position is on this practice. I feel it would be a very >> good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. >> Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your >> experience. >> Thank you! >> >> Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant >> >> Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sorry, I hit send instead of cancel... > Carol, > > We are a stake in family history transition. Two years ago, apathy and downright hostility were the responses to any mention of the subject. That is slowly changing. > > Our family history consultants meet together once a month with the High Council rep over family history. This now includes our youth consultants. Additionally we have formed a Youth Family History Council to work toward involving all the youth more. The responsibility of a youth consultant as we have laid them out include acting as a bridge to include the entire ward, down into Primary, in the work. Their focus is on the youth, but they are called and set apart with the same responsibilities and keys that you or I received. The entirety of the program is just coming into its own, the last ward finally having called someone to the position, and we haven't yet held our first youth council meeting, but I have great hopes. One of our stake goals is 70% youth annual recommends and these consultants are a big part of that. I fully expect that they will come up with some pretty amazing goals of their own. Until now, none of our wards had multiple FHCs. The addition of these youth changes that. Each ward is going to have to find a balance. Some do not share responsibility well, so that will be a challenge. And it is a huge leap for many to allow, much less encourage, this kind of responsibility in our youth. Have there been challenges on this road? Certainly. Of eight wards one young man has been called in this first go-round, an inequity that concerns me. Our training session to give them some background on their calling was attended by only half our complement. Our youth are not accustomed to being treated like they have this kind of say. The youth leadership, in my own ward, have trouble distinguishing between the youth and the family history consultant and have been dismissive of her input, a lesson we are putting to good use in the training. Bishops have not caught the vision of this idea, in spite of Elder Bednar's words. In some cases their adult FHCs are not as active as they could be and, in spite of our best efforts, their wards are apathetic to the work. Basically, we are working on changing the face of family history in our little corner of Las Vegas. It's not going to happen overnight, but inexorable us has and will continue to happen. Our next step is limited only by our imaginations. We're slowly changing attitudes, and that's a good thing. Maureen > > > On Mar 5, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Carol Riner Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maureen Lake, what kind of adjustments has your stake made to include the youth? >> >> >> Families Are Forever >> Carol Riner Everett

no adjustments. Just follow the handbook. David Samuelsen On 3/5/2012 4:50 AM, Carol Riner Everett wrote: > Maureen Lake, what kind of adjustments has your stake made to include the youth? > > > Families Are Forever > Carol Riner Everett > > > > ________________________________ > From: Maureen Lake<[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:28 PM > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Calling youth for FH Consultants > > Our stake president instructed each bishop in our stake to call a youth to serve as a family history consultant. The plan is to call a second one of the opposite gender in about six months. > > I have had a youth serving with me for the las two years. It has been a journey. > > I would think that Elder Bednar's talk last conference would have settled the question. Youth can and should serve in family history callings. We've adjusted our family history program in the stake to include and embrace the ideal. > > Maureen Lake > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Chuck Woodings<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I understand from others I've met at FH Conferences that some wards/stakes >> are calling youth to be Family History consultants and I would like to know >> what the churches position is on this practice. I feel it would be a very >> good experience for Priests preparing for a mission. >> Can someone elaborate on this and perhaps if you've done it tell me of your >> experience. >> Thank you! >> >> Chuck Woodings, Ward Family History Consultant >> >> Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >