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In 2016, the church announced that each ward should hold a teacher council meeting once a month during the three-hour schedule of Sunday meetings. [12] Those attending teacher council meetings include everyone who teaches a quorum or class in the ward, along with at least one of the priesthood or auxiliary leaders responsible for those teachers.
In 1980, the church implemented the "Consolidated Meeting Schedule," consolidating most church meetings into a three-hour block on Sundays. In 2019, the meeting schedule was condensed into a two-hour block, with meetings during the second hour alternating between Sunday School and gendered (Relief Society / Priesthood) meetings. [57]
Sacrament meeting was the last meeting of the day on Sunday. In 1980, the church's First Presidency started the current "block" schedule, in which almost all church meetings were held in the space of three hours. [4] In October 2018, church president Russell M. Nelson announced plans to consolidate the Sunday meeting schedule. As a part of ...
18 January 1970 David O. McKay dies. 23 January 1970 The First Presidency is reorganized, with Joseph Fielding Smith as president, Harold B. Lee as First Counselor, and N. Eldon Tanner as Second Counselor. Lee becomes President of the Quorum, with Spencer W. Kimball as Acting President. 6 April 1970 Boyd K. Packer added to the Quorum. 1 ...
This is a list of General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, which are held every three years. List of Conventions ... 1970 Houston, Texas: LXIV Sep. 29-Oct. 11 ...
In 1980, the Church released its first 3 standardized floorplans for American meetinghouses. One plan for branches or small wards, another for standard sized wards, and another for stake centers. All meetinghouses built after this point, with some exceptions, were built according to or very similar to these standard plans.
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In the 1980s, church president Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) directed that smaller temples with similar designs be built [6] allowing temples to be built where there were fewer members. As a result, the first temples in South America ( Brazil dedicated in 1978); Asia ( Japan dedicated in 1980); and Mexico ( Mexico City dedicated in 1983 ...