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Prior to the January 2019 changes to the Sunday meeting schedule, Sunday School was held weekly. In 2019, when the church moved to a two-hour block, Sunday School began being held every other week. Also, the two main adult classes were no longer to be called Gospel Doctrine and Gospel Principles, with encouragement for a combined adult class ...
In June 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson announced the creation of Come, Follow Me. This announcement came soon after the change from 3 hours to 2 hours for Sunday worship services. Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families was released with the intent that families would use the additional hour for home study using the manual ...
The first formal Sunday School in the LDS Church was held on December 9, 1849, in Salt Lake City under the direction of Richard Ballantyne, [1] a former Sunday school teacher in the Relief Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Lacking a suitable building to hold the meeting in, Ballantyne invited his students into his own home; approximately thirty ...
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Available online courtesy of the LDS Church History Library at Archive.org: Juvenile Instructor: 1901–1929 monthly LDS youth Deseret Sunday School Union: Salt Lake City, Utah Sunday School organization took over from George Q. Cannon. Replaced by The Instructor. Available online courtesy of the LDS Church History Library at Archive.org
The practice became popular among the wider membership of the church in Britain and quickly spread. In 1896, Fast Day was changed to the first Sunday of the month, instead of the first Thursday. Since then, it has commonly been referred to as Fast Sunday. Modern LDS Church leaders have affirmed the need for a Fast Day.
The most notable use for meetinghouses is the weekly worship service known as sacrament meeting.Every Sunday, members of the LDS Church meet to partake of the sacrament (equivalent to eucharist or communion in other Christian services), listen to sermons by members of the congregation, sing congregational hymns, and hear announcements for upcoming events.
Having been granted permission, he held the first Church Sunday School meeting in his home on December 9, 1849. [3] Approximately 50 students were in attendance. Sunday School was organized church-wide in 1867. In 1852, Ballantyne was called to serve a church mission to India. [4] He worked there with little success from 1853 to 1855.