Concern for the Individual Shown in New Report Forms

The growing emphasis in the Church on the individual member instead of auxiliary programs is reflected in the new correlated monthly reports for wards and stakes.

The new report forms, which will come into effect in September, will greatly simplify the task of wards reporting to stakes, and branches reporting to districts.

Currently, the monthly correlated report from a ward to a stake comprises nine pages with 731 entries. The new report forms will be one page with only 245 entries. Stake report forms to the Presiding Bishopric’s Office will be reduced to three pages with 1,794 entries from nine pages with 4,091 entries.

With the new correlated reports, certain information from the wards is taken off by the stakes for their own use. All other information is correlated and forwarded to Church headquarters. Less information will be received at the general Church level, but more will be retained at the local level where it can be more effectively utilized.

Currently the monthly correlated reports focus upon Church programs and motivational statistics. The new reports will focus on the individual member and the activity of individual members within specific age groupings.

Pilot testing of the new report forms has been very successful both in the United States and in other countries.