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Starting next year, “Come, Follow Me” will feature one consolidated manual rather than four separate study guides
Sunday School General President Mark L. Pace speaks during a BYU Education Week presentation Aug. 21, 2023. President Pace and his counselors, Brothers Milton Camargo and Jan E. Newman, shared why next year’s “Come, Follow Me” program will have one rather than four study manuals, and why the Church is implementing new teacher council meetings for parents.
Kaitlyn Bancroft, Church News
PROVO, Utah — After extending a calling to the Sunday School general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson asked the leaders to work on two things: getting the scriptures deeper into the souls of Latter-day Saints and improving teaching at both Church and home.
“So these two things weigh on our minds,” said Sunday School General President Mark L. Pace.
President Pace talked about President Nelson’s assignment during a Monday, Aug. 21, BYU Education Week presentation titled “Transforming Our Homes Into Sanctuaries of Faith.”
He and his counselors, Brothers Milton Camargo and Jan E. Newman, shared why next year’s “Come, Follow Me” program will have one rather than four study manuals and why the Church is implementing new teacher council meetings for parents.
“It’s about learner participation and growing together,” President Pace said, adding, “I’m not saying it needs to be complicated, but it [should be] a daily experience with gospel study, with reading the scriptures, with the word of God. … The adversary doesn’t take any days off. And neither does the Holy Ghost as we invite Him into our home.”
‘Come, Follow Me — for Home and Church’
Brother Milton Camargo, first counselor in the Sunday School general presidency, speaks during a BYU Education Week presentation Aug. 21, 2023. Sunday School General President Mark L. Pace and his counselors shared why next year’s “Come, Follow Me” program will have one rather than four study manuals; and why the Church is implementing new teacher council meetings for parents.
Kaitlyn Bancroft, Church News
Brother Milton Camargo, first counselor in the Sunday School general presidency, introduced the new “Come, Follow Me — for Home and Church” manual.
Since launching in 2019, the “Come, Follow Me” manuals have existed in four formats: one each for individuals and families, for Primary teachers, for Sunday School teachers, and for Young Men and Young Women leaders.
But starting next year, the manuals will be consolidated into one: “Come, Follow Me — for Home and Church,” which is already available digitally through the Gospel Library app and will be available in print by the end of the year.
It supplements individual and family study as well as second-hour class teaching for next year’s Book of Mormon curriculum. Relief Society and elders quorum classes will continue using general conference talks during their classes.
The new manual features ideas for learning at home, at Church and with children. It also includes more links to Church magazines, music, videos, gospel topics and other resources intended to facilitate more in-depth study.
Brother Camargo said the Sunday School general presidency is making this change for three reasons.
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