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Posted on 07/29/2007 3:23:40 AM PDT by restornu
Our primary family worship service is called sacrament meeting. This meeting is held in our meetinghouses on Sunday and lasts approximately 70 minutes. Visitors are welcome to attend. It is common for families to attend, and we are accustomed to having children as part of the congregation.
A typical meeting would consist of the following:
Hymns: Religious songs sung by the congregation (hymn books are provided).
Prayers: Offered by local Church members.
Partaking of the Sacrament (Communion): The sacrament is passed to members of the congregation.
Speakers: Typically a meeting will have two or three assigned speakers.
We do not pass a plate to request donations as part of our worship services.
Additional Meetings
Visitors are also welcome to attend other Sunday meetings that precede or follow sacrament meeting: Sunday School classes are offered for each age-group, beginning with twelve year olds. Primary meetings consist of a group service and age-oriented classes for children three through eleven years of age. A nursery is available for young children, ages eighteen months to three years. Young Women meetings provide classes for those twelve through seventeen years of age. Relief Society meeting is for women, ages eighteen years and older. Priesthood meetings provide age-oriented classes for males twelve years and older. Sacrament meetings and other meetings may be conducted in differing sequences, depending on the preference of local leaders. This site displays the beginning time of the three-hour block of meetings and the starting time of sacrament meeting.
Appropriate Dress
Those who attend will most likely be wearing their "Sunday best," which may include suits, sport coats, and ties for the men and dresses or skirts for the women. Children also typically dress up for Sunday.
Helpful Information
Our local congregations are called wards (or branches). The spiritual leader of each ward is called the bishop (or the branch president for branches). He is a member of the congregation who has been asked to serve as a volunteer in this position. Because we have a lay ministry rather than paid clergy, all Church service is voluntary.
Been busy with ranch duty. We just bailed 500 - 1500 lb bails of hay (Tiftin 85) and I am in the process of hauling them out of the pastures to the barn. How have you been doing?
“Appropriate Dress
Those who attend will most likely be wearing their “Sunday best,” which may include suits, sport coats, and ties for the men and dresses or skirts for the women. Children also typically dress up for Sunday. “
Am I accepted or condemned if I show up in a collard shirt and long shorts?
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The term has been around for a couple of centuries.
I was commenting on the way “Meeting House” has apparently been changed to “Meetinghouse” — one word.
I am glad I am behind a computer screen just think what you might have done if I was in preson!
cool down cool down.......
Just pick and choose the verses you want to believe, and leave the obvious alone.
That is good honest work I respect that thank you for sharing.
My great grandparents had a hog farm in upstate NY. My grandfather build a farm for each of his 7 children he was born in 1859-d1914.
That’s a pretty accurate list.
rest,
Is a ward an individual church or a group of churches like the equivalent of a Catholic diocese?
C_of_D
...and a whole bunch of spiritual falsehood.
A Ward is a congregation. A Stake is a group of Wards, the equivalent of a diocese.
Sorry to butt in. (Just in case resty isn’t online, I took the liberty to answer)
Thanks. So if a bishop is the head of a Ward, then what do they call the head of the Stake?
Since no one show their check stub how would the bishop know if one paid full tithe or not?
Then there are the guys who come to your door for building funds and lets not forget fasting money.
In all my 25 years I never had anyone come to my door for building funds!
If members do not pay an honest tithing they can not get a temple recommend which means no celestial kingdom.
Still again if one is not required to show their Check stub or bank statements how would the bishop know if one paid an honest tithe?
I don't know of anyone who would want to attend the Temple and not be honest in their dealing?
Because the Lord will not be there to greet them and their attendance will be a waste of time!
It is with the Lord you have the covenant with not the servant of the Lord!
It amazes me how one thinks these things through and using the world yardstick.
So many have missed the bigger picture thinking they are fooling his servants on earth when the Lord knows all our hearts and mind.
Hie?
Is that a mispelled word? If not what does it mean?
Hie?
Is that a mispelled word? If not what does it mean?
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hie
intr. & tr.v., hied, hie·ing or hy·ing hies.
To go quickly; hasten.
[Middle English hien, from Old English ;gian, to strive, exert oneself.]
Was not in the least attacking you.
Maybe it was attacking the deception that has you and others bound and blinded.
For that, please forgive.
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father but by, and through, Him.
He is not to be feared. The truth of who He is and what He has done and is doing and shall do - is the greatest good news truth in all of history to all of mankind.
Do you freely worship Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of all in your meetings?
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