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Asia Local Pages ASIA LOCAL PAGES ASIA AREA LEADER MESSAGE Long- term area self- reliance Spiritual Self- Reliance comes from self- reliant stakes By Elder Gerrit W. Gong and districts. Self- reliant stakes Asia Area President and districts are ultimately reat blessings come to us and those around composed of self- reliant in- G us when we become temporally and spiritu- dividuals and families. Area ally self- reliant—and able to serve others. self- reliance also includes In the Church, “self- reliance” does not mean other spiritual and temporal relying only on ourselves. Ultimately it means faith elements. For example, the and reliance on the Lord. Self- reliance is a choice spirit of long- term area self- we make to come unto the Lord so He can help reliance includes self- reliance us help others. in local missionaries; local During the October 2014 general conference temple, mission, and other General Authority training, the First Presidency leadership; family file names and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invited for temple work; etc., while the Area Presidency and director for temporal recognizing the Lord will call affairs in each area of the Church to begin pre- His people to serve where He will. Elder Gerrit W. paring for long- term area self- reliance. The Area Long- term area self- reliance means constant Gong Presidencies and directors for temporal affairs focus on members. We continually ask, “How will were asked to begin with meetinghouse priorities. this approach look in 10 years? 20 years?” “What I will explain what we mean by meetinghouse would this decision mean in terms of member priorities below. time, energy, and financial commitments to par- As you may know, our Asia Area is populous, ticipate in the Church now?” vast, diverse, and complex. Our Asia Area of the As a result of the new direction on self- reliance, Church includes 22 countries and regions—from the Area Presidency and the director for temporal Mongolia in the north to Indonesia in the south, affairs asked for a review of all meetinghouse proj- from Pakistan in the west to China in the east. ects. Each will be considered carefully. Some may Within our area, Church experience and maturity change, be delayed or even cancelled because of varies. We also have many different economic and new meetinghouse priorities. societal situations. As a Church area, we are now invited, in a Areas as Pioneer Companies gradual, long- term way, to help each other toward As part of General Authority training, we self- reliance. learned that areas of the Church are like pioneer Self- reliance means individuals and families who companies. In the times when the pioneers were have “the ability, commitment, and effort to provide crossing the plains to the Salt Lake Valley, they the spiritual and temporal necessities of life for self were organized in groups called companies. and family. As members become self- reliant, they Doctrine and Covenants 136:3 records, “Let are also better able to serve and care for others.”1 the companies be organized with captains of April 2015 A1 hundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens, examine use, locations, costs, and maintenance with a president and his two counselors at their of each meetinghouse. Even early examination head, under the direction of the Twelve Apostles.” indicates that significant opportunities exist to Today, similarly, areas of the Church are led reduce costs and better use our meetinghouses. by three assigned General Authorities, under the This process of careful examination of meeting- direction of the Twelve Apostles. In the spirit of house use will require a multi- year, gradual, and self- reliance, the pioneers provided for themselves sustained implementation period. and also provided a surplus to help others. Today, we are invited to do the same thing. Meetinghouse Opportunities 1. Increase meetinghouse use to four Church Guiding Principles branches or wards (instead of two or three Some guiding principles can help us as pioneers branches or wards). in our area. 2. Begin design and construction of a meeting- house only after three branches or wards are 1. Self- reliance—As areas mature and grow, they ready to occupy it. should become more self- reliant. 3. Allow members to fill existing meetinghouses. 2. Providing for others—Mature areas should 4. Rent long- term or buy already constructed continue to assist less- developed areas. space where it makes sense. 3. Wise judgment—Authority and accountabil- 5. Adjust travel times to better use meetinghouses. ity should be paired with wise judgment to effectively manage resources. Elder M. Russell In each case, we want meetinghouses to be Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as close and as convenient to our members as teaches, “As the Saints work to become com- possible. At the same time, we are aware of many pletely self- sufficient, something very special places in the world, including developing coun- happens that goes far beyond decreasing costs. tries in our Asia Area, where there are not yet . Something special happens to an individual places for our members to meet. Some sacrifice or to a Church unit when the people become may be required for developed areas where there more independent and self- reliant. They feel are already many Church meetinghouses, to help more confident, positive, and assured, and they developing areas also have places for Church reflect these feelings in their actions.”2 These members to meet. confident, positive, assured feelings, reflected in our actions, are what we hope for each Blessings of Tithing Faithfulness member of the Asia Area of the Church. Our tithes are used to build and maintain the meetinghouses where we meet and worship to- Possible Meetinghouse Considerations gether. We each receive blessings when we faith- As we examine meetinghouse use, possible fully obey the law of tithes—when we are tithing considerations may include the following: faithful. President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910– A first step in long- term area self- reliance is to 2008) expressed it this way: “The Church has the A2 Liahona means to construct buildings, but the people will local adaptations occur. The gospel and the Church not be blessed unless they observe the Lord’s law can come to all the Asia Area in hastening and of the tithe.”3 sustainable ways. In the coming years, over time, we will find the spiritual and temporal resources Blessings of Fasting and Offerings needed to establish the gospel and the Church in We are commanded to “look to the poor and the Asia Area are already here. The Lord has pro- the needy, and administer to their relief that they vided and will continue to provide. shall not suffer” (D&C 38:35). We are also told We will be sharing more on long- term area that “Blessings associated with the law of the fast self- reliance in the coming months and years. In include closeness to the Lord, increased spiritual the meantime, we want each member to know we strength, temporal well- being, greater compassion, love you. We admire you. We are grateful for you. and a stronger desire to serve.”4 And we are grateful we each have the opportunity The Lord Himself tells us: “I, the Lord, stretched and blessing to become temporally and spiritually out the heavens, and built the earth, my very hand- self- reliant such that we can receive the blessings iwork; and all things therein are mine. And it is my from the Lord and serve and bless each other as purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are He would do. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. ◼ mine. But it must needs be done in mine own way NOTES 1. Handbook 2: Administering the Church (2010), 6.1.1. for the earth is full, and there is enough and to 2. M. Russell Ballard, “Sacrifice and Self- Sufficiency,” Ensign, Nov. 1987, 78, 80, lds.org/ensign/1987/11/ spare” (D&C 104:14–17). sacrifice- and- slf- sufficiency. The Lord has ordained for all His children 3. Quoted in Presiding Bishopric Presentation, General Authority Training, October 7, 2014; see also Gordon B. opportunity to receive the restored gospel. He Hinckley, “The State of the Church,” Ensign, May 1991, 51–54, lds.org/ensign/1991/05/the- state- of- the- church. has also decreed to provide the necessary spir- 4. Handbook 2, 6.1.2. itual and temporal means to do so to “every nation, kindred, tongue, and people” (1 Nephi 19:17; see also D&C 90:11) in “[His] own way” (D&C 104:16). LOCAL NEWS Fundamental doctrine will not change. But the means and modes of establishing the gospel and administering the Church will adapt and See, Hear, and Understand . By Robert K. William adopt. Principles of self- reliance multiply spiritual First counselor, India Bangalore Mission Presidency resources by reducing dependence on constrained physical resources. Ongoing inspiration and reve- uring the Savior’s mortal The scriptures talk about the lation can maintain unity of doctrine and spiritual D ministry, He ”went about miracles that He performed. ministration while program administration adapts doing good” (Acts 10:38). Some We read about Christ causing as appropriate, beginning with meetinghouse of the notable deeds that He a blind man to receive his sight priorities. performed were with people (see John 9:1–15), healing a deaf Long- term Asia Area self- reliance can reduce the who were sick and afflicted (see Mark 7:32–35), and open- cost structure of administering Church programs as both in body and in spirit. ing His Apostles’ understanding April 2015 A3 this scripture help us to see? observe to do all the words of We as mortal beings are sub- this law” (Deuteronomy 31:12; jected to seeing things as tem- emphasis added).
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