| Contributed by: Pam McEwen Utilize secretary and put her completely over the
inactive girls. She sees that every girl gets calendars and is contacted on a
monthly basis. Send birthday cards from the presidency and class presidency.
At interview time: (should happened twice a year) use the Check List (below) and give it
to the bishopric at interview time--they possibly could get these girls in for an
interview, or set up a time to visit the whole family, but even a phone call could be made
and then noted on the action sheet.
Check List
Name:
Family Members:
Last Contact:
Was it by phone, mail, in person:
How were you received during contact?:
Last time known to have attended church?
Last time known to have attended activity night?
Who are the Home Teachers, Visiting Teachers
When was the last visit?
Interests?
Who knows them in the ward?
Do they have a job? Where?
Take check list to ward council meetings. Work together as ward leaders and
discuss at ward council.
If you find out that the YW just made the varsity soccer team, you could pass that
information on the so that VT and HT. can also congratulate the YW.
Contributed by: Vicki in Ohio - hsman@iapdatacom.net
I don't know if you have heard of the L.A.M.B program, but we did it in our wardand it was a neat
experience for our girls. It stands for Less Active Members Back. We had a special evening
and decorated the yw room with lambs, and pictures of the Savior with sheep. In advance as
a presidency we had prayed together and matched up the active girls with a less active yw.
We bought and painted cute little wooden lambs and on the back we put the less active
girls name address phone number and birthdate. We invited the parents to this activity.
We had a reactivated sister speak on "coming home"
and how other's friendship helped her. We had a speaker speak on the parable of the lost
sheep. We had 2 girls sing "How Great Shall Be Your Joy". We then presented the
program...giving each girl her "lamb" that she was to be a shepherd over for
that year. The shepherd's responsibilities included inviting her lamb to church on Sunday
and to mutual on Wednesday, sending her friendly notes, remembering her on her birthday,
and visiting her if appropriate. We had lamb shaped sugar cookies for refreshments.
It was a spiritual evening and the girls...and many took
this project and worked very hard. Friendships developed and less active girls have
attended mutual and church due to this.
Contributed by: Kathy in Madrid, Spain - katrinka@deseretmail.com
There is a wonderful story of a little girl who told the
Ninety and nine story. It is found in Bruce C. Hafen's book The Broken Heart p. 38 and in
Jerry A. Wilson's book Teaching with Spiritual Power p. 198. The book The Broken Heart is
in the GospeLink Library CD set. Here is just a glimpse "
(THE BROKEN HEART, p. 37 - 38)
I once heard a child tell the parable of the lost sheep in a
way that stirred fresh thoughts about who the lost sheep is. A little girl so tiny that we
could barely see the top of her ponytails over the pulpit told the story in a sacrament
meeting. Her mother knelt by her side and coached her gently as she talked. She said,
"There was once a shepherd who had a hundred sheep..."
"As I listened, it dawned on me: I am the little lost
sheep. Others I know and love—including many who attend church—are the little
lost sheep. There are so many times when we feel lost. We can feel lost even if we have
not "left the fold" in the sense of leaving the Church or violating major
commandments."
The rest of his book continues to say even Adam and Eve were
once lost sheep. We all need the shepherd to call us and sometimes we may be the voice
that lamb needed at that moment. And sometimes we are the lambsmand we need to remember to
listen for the call of the shepherd.
I found it in the CDs by searching for the exact phrase
"There was once a shepherd"
I loved this story and it too stirs in me a desire to follow
the Saviors admonition to "Feed my sheep" and to search for the one.
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