Resources

Practical guidance for ward bishoprics — calling workflows, sacrament meeting programs, ward council follow-through, interview tracking, youth activity preparation, and tithing declaration scheduling. These are workflow ideas, not official Church policy; consult the current General Handbook and LCR.

• How LDS Bishoprics Track Callings Without a Spreadsheet

  Some bishoprics keep their open callings on a printed list, a shared spreadsheet, or in the bishop's head. A ward calling tracker — built around stages such as proposed, approved, extended, sustained, and set apart — can help counselors see where things stand. Follow the Church's instructions on approvals and recording callings in LCR.

• Building a Sacrament Meeting Program: A Bishopric's Checklist

  A sacrament meeting program is two documents pretending to be one: the bulletin that members read and the conductor's script that the presiding member reads aloud. Treat them as one source of truth — speakers, hymns, presiding authority, ordinances — and Sunday morning stops being a scramble for the counselor who is conducting.

• A Ward Council Agenda Template That Actually Gets Used

  A ward council agenda only works if it's the same shape every week. When the bishop and the organization leaders all know the rhythm — assignments review, ministering, organization reports, items of business — the meeting moves fast and decisions actually get made. When the agenda is improvised, the meeting runs long and nothing carries forward to next week.

• Tracking Temple Recommend, Youth, and Ministering Interviews

  Interview tracking is dates and labels — never content. A bishop or counselor should know at a glance who is overdue for a temple recommend, which youth haven't been interviewed this quarter, and which ministering companionships still need their visit. The conversation itself stays private; only the cadence is shared.

• Scheduling Tithing Declarations Online

  A simple online schedule with timed slots, a public booking link, and a printable QR poster lets households choose a time that works. Members provide an email address when booking; the booking is recorded immediately, and the confirmation email is an informational receipt.

• Tools for New Bishops in Their First 90 Days

  A new bishop inherits a calendar full of decisions he hasn't yet had time to understand. The first 90 days should be about getting visibility — open callings, interview cadences, ward council rhythm, tithing season — without trying to reinvent any of them. The tools that matter are the ones that give a new bishop a clear picture quickly so he can spend his time with people, not paperwork.

• Using LCR and Bishopric Board Together: What Belongs Where

  Leader and Clerk Resources (LCR) is the Church's official system for membership and other Church records. Bishopric Board is a separate planning workspace for candidate lists, draft programs, interview cadence, and scheduling. It may store limited names, contact details, and household information, including reviewed move-in imports for programs, but does not sync with LCR or replace its records.

• How a Stake Presidency Keeps Every Ward on the Same Page

  A stake presidency doesn't run the wards — the bishops do. But a stake president still wants every ward in the stake to have a calm, consistent rhythm: open callings moving forward, ward council meeting on a stable schedule, interview cadences that don't slip. A shared workspace gives each bishopric its own private, walled-off space while letting the stake set a common shape, so a newly-called bishop inherits the same tools as the bishop down the road. The stake presidency also gets a workspace of its own — for stake callings, stake meeting agendas, and stake-level interview cadences — kept entirely separate from any ward.

• Tracking Stake Interviews: Temple Recommends, Melchizedek Priesthood, and Patriarchal Blessings

  Stake-level interviews follow the same discipline as ward interviews: track the cadence, never the content. A stake presidency should know at a glance who is due for a temple recommend renewal, which brethren are being considered for the Melchizedek Priesthood, and who has requested a patriarchal blessing — without ever writing down what was said in any of those conversations. Only dates and labels are shared; the conversation itself stays private.