Who Do I Work With?

Stake Sunday School Presidency and Secretary

You may serve in a presidency with two counselors and a secretary. The counselors in your presidency and the stake Sunday School secretary will support and sustain you. Give your counselors and secretary opportunities to serve and grow by delegating responsibilities to them. 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; 5.7.1; 5.7.1.4.)

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, 5.2.1.6; 5.7.1.)

Stake Council

You are a member of the stake council. As a member of the stake council, you have the responsibilities outlined in General Handbook, 29.3.8.

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).

If you are unable to attend a stake council meeting, invite one of your counselors to attend in your place.