My Calling as a Counselor in the Stake Sunday School Presidency

Who Do I Work With?

Stake Sunday School Presidency and Secretary

As a counselor in the stake Sunday School presidency, you work under the direction of the stake Sunday School president. You support and sustain him as you accept and prayerfully fulfill responsibilities he may delegate to you. You also seek inspiration so that you can use your unique gifts to bless ward Sunday School leaders. As your presidency counsels together and seeks to follow the example of the Savior, you will gain insights and inspiration about how best to minister to one another and to those you serve. (See General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 13.2.2.2; 6.7.1; 6.7.1.4.)

Ward Sunday School Presidencies

Build sincere relationships with the ward Sunday School presidencies in your stake and love them as the Savior would. As a stake Sunday School presidency, you provide ongoing teaching, support, and encouragement to ward Sunday School presidencies as they fulfill their responsibilities. You also have the opportunity to conduct stake Sunday School training meetings, where you instruct ward leaders in their duties and teach them leadership skills.

Stake Presidency

Your presidency meets regularly with the stake presidency counselor assigned to the stake Sunday School. In these meetings you discuss the needs of ward Sunday School leaders and class members in their wards. (See General Handbook, 6.2.1.6; 6.7.1.)

Stake Council

Attend stake council meetings when the stake Sunday School president invites you to go in his absence.

Stake council meetings should be a revelatory experience. Elder David A. Bednar taught the following about ward council meetings, and the principle also applies to stake council meetings: “We’ve been talking about a revelatory experience with the members of the ward council. And if members of councils, if members of families, as they come together, would think in terms of ‘I’m preparing to participate in a revelatory experience with my family’ instead of going to a meeting—a revelatory experience with the members of the ward council—I think we would prepare and act much differently” (in M. Russell Ballard, in “Panel Discussion” [worldwide leadership training meeting, Nov. 2010], broadcasts.ChurchofJesusChrist.org).