My TBM FIL & I were talking last night about a mutual aquaintance when my FIL mentioned that he had just been called to serve as a Ward Fellowshipper. This is an older retired gentleman. WTF?

Is this a new name for Ward Usher or is this a new calling?

What is a Ward Fellowshipper? A greeter? A hander-outer of Ward Bulletins? My FIL wasn't sure what his duties are.

It's kind of humorous that this brother was given this calling because my FIL's Ward requires all its members to come to church 15 minutes early to be silent in their seats, listening to prelude music and being reverent before the start of Sacrament. They even have "reverence children" standing up next to either side of the pulpit with their arms folded and heads bowed. The conductor starts the meeting by identifying their purpose and thanking them before dismissing them to sit with their families. Has anyone seen this kind of nonsense?

If this is a meet and greet calling, it must be a tough job to do if you can't even talk...

Only in the morg...

It's a "makework" calling so he won't watch porn and masturbate. When I was at BYU, the student branch actually called "Sacrament Bread Bakers", I kid you not. I think some of those girls masturbated anyway.

Just sayin'...

Ron

in SM and RS there is a person assigned to greet people and single out the newcommers. It's tough fo SM cos there are 3 ways in the chaple.

The "reverence children" were around back before I left in the mid 90s. :)

They often couldn't keep their eyes closed without swaying like they were going to fall over.
Or they'd peek and try not to laugh as other kids pulled faces while the head honchos looked away.

I was in that annoying front row family. We were setting an example too, I bet. Dad would reach down to tap shoulders if anyone fidgeted too much. HE was allowed to tap his feet to keep circulation going, but god forbid any of us with stubby legs did. His feet could reach the floor, but not ours! I was glad for the mingling before going off to class, allowing the blood back to my feet so I wasn't trying to walk on numb legs...



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I remember Reverance Children. They stood up front with their arms folded. Looked like they were constipated and pissed off.

Ron

Reverence children....really??? That is ridiculous. So seeing them all reverent will make the adults in their seats behave??? Mormons are so dumb.

The hell? That sounds really creepy. Like something out of a Stephen King novel, that kind of creepy. Like you expect the doors of the sanctuary to be locked and then they all pull out hunting knives and start crooning about how they don't think their parents belieeeeeeve...<shudder>

We've got greeters too and I think it's stupid. This is a small town in Oklahoma. There are like 100 Catholics in the whole area, we all go to church in the same place, we all know each other, and we all know where the bulletins are kept. But no, someone has to meet you at the door.

Reverence Children. Dear God.

As children filter into Primary from sacrament meeting, one child is asked to be the example of reverence, standing in front of the room silently with his/her arms folded.

But to do this with ADULTS, for sac meeting?

OTOH, since church leaders generally treat adult members as if they had an elementary school mentality, I suppose this is par for the course.

We had reverence children for a while.
They finally stopped because the kids hated to do it and the adults ignored them.
It was a lost cause and the bishop to his credit saw that the visiting before the meeting was more beneficial than the quiet time.

They started calling people to Ward Fellowship a few years back when I was still attending. If I remember right they were assigned the "inactives" in the ward so the missionaries could go teach converts. The Bishop said it was because the inactives should be cared for by the ward not the missionaries.

I'm pretty sure that's what the calling was called anyway.

freeasabird Wrote:
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> They started calling people to Ward Fellowship a
> few years back when I was still attending. If I
> remember right they were assigned the "inactives"
> in the ward so the missionaries could go teach
> converts. The Bishop said it was because the
> inactives should be cared for by the ward not the
> missionaries.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's what the calling was called
> anyway.


Oh snap. I just had an epiphany that this guy will start coming by now trying to fellowship us. UGGGGH.

Thankfully my whole family resigned a decade ago, but once on a morg list, always on a morg list. So I'm certain he'll be by.

Just another dude to avoid...