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ha! hey you should find out how many do by having a test!
that would get people reading a little bit next week!
I joked about having a quiz at the end of class after the lesson once. I don't think anyone thought it was funny.
I keep thinking I should remind people Friday or so about the reading, but I keep forgetting to post it to our Facebook group page.
hey sir Glen are you the only one teaching a class or how does that work are you appointed or did you volunteer?
We call it callings, but essentially the bishop and his counselors pray for guidance and extend the calls to those they feel should do them. I'm one of various Sunday School teachers, but I'm the only one teaching the main adult class now. They've had two at a time before.
I suppose it could be considered volunteering, though. We can certainly say yes or no to a calling, though most do. But no one in our congregation gets paid for what they do, including the bishop and the rest of the leadership. They put in quite a few hours a week, not including Sundays, and more if there are activities of some kind.
how do the ones doing this work fulltime make money then if they don't get paid?
yes we call that callings also.
Well, no one in our congregation (they're called wards) works their calling full-time. They all have regular jobs they or their spouse do to support their family. It's truly a lay ministry.
Now on the level of the president/prophet and apostles of the church, they receive substantial yearly stipends for their work, but they are in it full-time and nearly always until they die once called. The church also has a very large worldwide support staff that handle things like budgets, building, security, run the universities and schools, seminaries, institutes, and so on. But the vast majority of all the ecclesiastical work is part-time and unpaid. Except for the missionaries, who are full-time, and pay to be out there doing it. :)
but the local pastor doesn't get paid even though it's alot of hours?
Nope. The bishop is not paid. Nor his counselors, or any of the other leaders, who can put in quite a bit of time, if not more than he would a week. Depends a lot on the needs of the ward and whether or not he's the only one who can take care of it.
is the bishop the leader of the local church like a pastor in a church like a methodist? I mean is that what the leader is called?