Using The Internet For Missionary Work

[Heather]

Quotes from the recent Church Newsroom podcast about the Internet being used to find people for the full-time missionaries to teach. Link to pondcast is at the bottom of the article.

http://blog.moregoodfoundation.org/2007/11...aries-to-teach/

[Moksha]

This is really interesting.

[Old Tex]

This is really interesting.

Additional info...........

http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp...p;maxResults=10

More info from the Kansas City Star... http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/314657.html

[prisonchaplain]

I believe it's France where an education minister was known to have said, "At any given time of the day I can tell you which textbook our school children are studying, and what page they are on."

No denying the unity a centralized curriculum offers. I'm sure my own faith group's Gospel Publishing House wishes we'd adopt the same approach. :-)

[Old Tex]

I believe it's France where an education minister was known to have said, "At any given time of the day I can tell you which textbook our school children are studying, and what page they are on."

No denying the unity a centralized curriculum offers. I'm sure my own faith group's Gospel Publishing House wishes we'd adopt the same approach. :-)

Sorry, PC. I accidently put up a link to an article about the 2008 study material that's being shipped out to all Wards and Branches. I went back and changed it to the link that I wanted about the new internet missionary program.

Indeed, there is something to be said for a centralized program like this. Many LDS travel a lot and attend meetings at whatever Ward or Branch of the Church they are nearest to on Sundays. With a system like this, a member can still receive the same lesson on a given Sunday anywhere in the world if the guidelines are followed as scheduled.

For several years, part of my responsibility in my Ward was to distribute a form to all the leaders in the Ward who would be needing material for the coming year, compile it, and make an order to the Church Distrubution Center via internet by September 1st.

As the material came in (usually in November) I would check the inventory sheet and sort it out depending on which organization it would go to. When it all came in I would distribute it and the organizations would then place it in their locker where they kept their supplies.

It would then be distributed among the Ward members by the leaders of each organization the last of December and everyone would be ready for new classes begining the first Sunday in January. Allowing for a few minor glitches, the system works quite well.

This year, our course of study in the adult Sunday School class is the New Testament. I think it's the Old Testament next year, but I don't know. I don't order the stuff anymore. Some other lucky member does that now.