Our stake recently began a new push to get our college-age students attending our singles branch. There are some 500+ single adults in our stake, and about 30 of those attend sacrament meeting in the branch. While some of them do hold callings in home wards, most of them have simply stopped attending church altogether. […]

Our stake recently began a new push to get our college-age students attending our singles branch. There are some 500+ single adults in our stake, and about 30 of those attend sacrament meeting in the branch. While some of them do hold callings in home wards, most of them have simply stopped attending church altogether. […]

I happened to stumble on a link to this site:http://backtochurch.com/resources/statistics/ while researching a topic for the girls’ camp devotional I helped with this week. What an interesting read! The site, http//BackToChurch.com/ is promoting a Christian “Back to Church” Sunday. It lists a number of extremely interesting statistics from a variety of sources regarding church activity. […]

I happened to stumble on a link to this site:http://backtochurch.com/resources/statistics/ while researching a topic for the girls' camp devotional I helped with this week. What an interesting read! The site, http//BackToChurch.com/ is promoting a Christian "Back to Church" Sunday. It lists a number of extremely interesting statistics from a variety of sources regarding church activity. […]

Admit it -- you'd love to peek inside the nooks and crannies of a Mormon Temple. Well now you can! http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/scaled-mod... There's a new scale model of the Salt Lake Temple on historic Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can get an "Open House" type experience without having to wear those silly footies […]

General Primary President LaVern Parmley asked her board to come up with ideas for a symbol to assist seven year old children in learning the teachings of Jesus in 1970 — the result was the CTR ring with it’s familiar logo and shield: Classic CTR Ring Image What is a CTR Ring? The little ring […]

It's nowhere near Thanksgiving. But I love the famous Thanksgiving Letter at AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (orginal here): From: Marney As you all know a fabulous Thanksgiving Dinner does not make itself. I need to ask each of you to help by bringing something to complete the meal. I truly appreciate your offers to assist with the meal […]

I was reading a little more of Seriously, So Blessed today. I heard of it a few years back, probably when it was in the throes of its first media blitz and loved it then. The gal writing is brilliant. Then I read some of my posts, and WOW. Some of mine sound just like […]

US President Bill Clinton at Harlem’s Convenat Avenue Baptist Church, sleeping My brother posted this on his Facebook page: "what's worse... to go to Sunday School and probably nod off or find a vacant room and intentionally sleep." Hehe. If only he knew what his dear sister was doing Sunday. We skipped out of Church […]

The teacher in our RS class got the lessons mixed up, and we got this lesson this week instead of next week. What a great lesson! The lesson was supposed to be one of those split-into-groups type lessons (which I hate), but our teacher didn't go that route this time. Instead she mentioned the journalism […]