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Sleeping in EQ · 04-29-2008, 10:17 PM

You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s.

Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend?

Jeff Lebowski · 04-29-2008, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s.

Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend?

Activities committee
YM/YW leadership
Primary teachers
Nursery
Ward clerk
Executive secretary
Anything in music
SS teachers
RS leader

Tex · 04-29-2008, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s.

Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend?

Anything non-teaching, non-leadership, and probably non-youth as well. Maybe primary is an exception.

SeattleUte · 04-29-2008, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s.

Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend?

From what I've seen here they tend to call such people to play the piano, preferably for children.

Archaea · 04-29-2008, 10:37 PM

Executive Secretary for man, RS Secretary for wife.

BlueK · 04-29-2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s.

Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend?

this example hits pretty close to home. My soon to be sister in law and her husband are more or less in that situation. I think he is a little more in the church than she is but when called to be the executive secretary he gave the bishop his concerns about not believing as much as he used to and the bishop said it was ok. His wife still attends and does the music in the primary as well as working in cub scouts even though she doesn't really believe anything related to the restoration anymore.

exUte · 04-29-2008, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

From what I've seen here they tend to call such people to play the piano, preferably for children.

approved a sister to be in the primary presidency even though she smoked.

I know, I hang around pretty straight, fundamentalist friends.

Oh and he was SP after that for another 11 years.

DrumNFeather · 04-30-2008, 01:08 PM

Young single adult reps/leaders...there's no hope for that group anyway.

non sequitur · 04-30-2008, 05:29 PM

My second to last calling -- when I was still marginally active -- was ward activity chairman. Eventually, when I became less than marginal, I was made coach of the Young Men's basketball team. Basketball Coach is pretty much the last stop on the train to inactivity.

Clark Addison · 04-30-2008, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

My second to last calling -- when I was still marginally active -- was ward activity chairman. Eventually, when I became less than marginal, I was made coach of the Young Men's basketball team. Basketball Coach is pretty much the last stop on the train to inactivity.

I am currently the YM Basketball Coach.

04-29-2008, 10:17 PM	#1
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Let's play "You Make the Call" You are the Bishop and you need to find the perfect calling for two faithful heretics in your ward. They are married, sufficiently skilled for any calling, and in their 30s. Assuming any calling is an option, what calling(s) would you extend? __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

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non sequitur Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,964	My second to last calling -- when I was still marginally active -- was ward activity chairman. Eventually, when I became less than marginal, I was made coach of the Young Men's basketball team. Basketball Coach is pretty much the last stop on the train to inactivity. __________________ ...You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in, 'Who's used all the penicillin?' 'Oh, Mark Paxson sir, he's got knob rot off of some tart.'" - Gareth Keenan

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