I'm not sure tracting has been terminated world-wide, but I know it has in at least some missions, including ours. And yes, the FT missionaries in our area are always looking for things to do.
I need to push my GA friend harder on my proposal to revamp the service requirement among the Church's young adults. I'm still fine tuning it for my non-existent audience, and yeah, I know I've mentioned it before, but it's a great idea, dammit. Impose the equivalent of universal conscription on all young adults at 18. But give them a choice of proselyting, humanitarian service or military service. Establish the Church equivalent of the Peace Corps for the humanitarian element. There a lot of talented, retired business managers and leaders who would be happy to head this up in place of the usual serve-in-the-mission-home-and-check-missionary-apartments couples missions. Imagine if half of the current force of 80K missionaries chose humanitarian service. If they devote as much time to their work as proselyting missionaries (at least 50 hours a week), you'd have over 100 Million hours of humanitarian service being expended annually around the world. With nearly everyone (I think even most agnostic or nonbelieving youth would jump at the chance to join the humanitarian team) serving, the cultural stigma of not serving a mission would be great reduced. And despite substantially reducing the number of proselyting missionaries, I prophesy that the number of convert baptisms would increase, and the Church's rep for doing good throughout the world would be immeasurably enhanced.
I need to push my GA friend harder on my proposal to revamp the service requirement among the Church's young adults. I'm still fine tuning it for my non-existent audience, and yeah, I know I've mentioned it before, but it's a great idea, dammit. Impose the equivalent of universal conscription on all young adults at 18. But give them a choice of proselyting, humanitarian service or military service. Establish the Church equivalent of the Peace Corps for the humanitarian element. There a lot of talented, retired business managers and leaders who would be happy to head this up in place of the usual serve-in-the-mission-home-and-check-missionary-apartments couples missions. Imagine if half of the current force of 80K missionaries chose humanitarian service. If they devote as much time to their work as proselyting missionaries (at least 50 hours a week), you'd have over 100 Million hours of humanitarian service being expended annually around the world. With nearly everyone (I think even most agnostic or nonbelieving youth would jump at the chance to join the humanitarian team) serving, the cultural stigma of not serving a mission would be great reduced. And despite substantially reducing the number of proselyting missionaries, I prophesy that the number of convert baptisms would increase, and the Church's rep for doing good throughout the world would be immeasurably enhanced.
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