What Does the Presiding Bishopric Do?
The Church's article "Presiding Bishopric" explains their function as follows: The Presiding Bishopric is a council of three men who work under the direction of the First Presidency. They manage such matters as humanitarian aid, welfare programs, tithing and fast...
Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide
The Church's Stake and Ward Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide provides tools to help Church leaders create or update their emergency response plans based on local resources and circumstances. The guide helps leaders go through the planning process on an ongoing...
Are You Cyber Safe? For Teens
Here is a game for teenagers to help them determine whether they are doing things that are safe online. In this 10-minute role-playing game, you navigate through fun dilemmas and wacky scenarios to try and spot red flags and avoid negative consequences. Some things...
Internet Safety: Be Wary of Online Strangers
Anyone you meet online could be a threat. In fact, the FBI has estimated that an astounding 500,000 predators are online each day—most of which have multiple online accounts, personas, and profiles. Dating apps, social media platforms, or other messaging apps, in...
Church’s Emotional Resilience Course Available in 30 Languages
The Church's self-reliance manual, Finding Strength in the Lord: Emotional Resilience can help you build emotional resilience, develop healthy thinking patterns, manage stress and anxiety, understand sadness and depression, overcome anger, and build healthy...
21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
Many religions encourage fasting and prayer as a way to humble ourselves before God by voluntarily refraining from eating and drinking. Some encourage fasting for 21 days each year in January as part of a 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting season. This includes abstaining...
New Audio Options in Gospel Library App
An upgrade to the Gospel Library app includes an enhancement for listening in your car using iOS CarPlay or Android Auto, plus a new standard audio player. Connect hands-free. You can connect your mobile device via iOS CarPlay and Android Auto to access content on the...
Updates to the Church’s Member Tools App
Over the last three months, the Church has rolled out a major update of the Member Tools app for both iOS and Android users. Since its introduction in 2010, the app (previously named LDS Tools) has grown from a digital directory of ward and stake members to a powerful...
How to Research Information on the Internet
Research skills are important, whether we are searching for diet tips, information about political issues, or answers to religious questions. I often hear people justify their positions with the phrase "I've done the research." That typically means that they did a...
North Star LDS Conference 2024: Understanding Same-Sex Attraction & Gender Identity
Registration is now open for the North Star Conference to be held at the Sheraton in Salt Lake City, June 20-22, 2024. The North Star Conference is the premier conference exploring the LGBT/SSA experience within the context of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Keynote...
Updated Editions of Scriptures Published in Indonesian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Swahili
The Church has published the following updated scripture editions: Indonesian triple combination and Book of Mormon. Printed editions are now available through local distribution centers and online at store.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Members are not expected to obtain...
10 Million Names Project
Participate in the 10 Million Names Project, a collaboration with American Ancestors, FamilySearch, and others to compile pre-1870 documents and recover the identities of 10 million individuals of African descent who were enslaved in America between 1500 and 1865....
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