PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR!!!!
Green Valley Stake Welfare and Self-Reliance Council Training and Leadership Meetings:
Semi-Annual Stake Welfare & Self-Reliance Council Training
Sunday, June 22, 2025, 3:30 pm, Stake Center Chapel
Bishoprics, Elders Quorum and Relief Society Presidencies, Stake and Ward Welfare and Self-Reliance Specialists.
ZOOM https://churchofjesuschrist.zoom.us/j/96626157463?pwd=a2hVUXAxUkhPVFlQT1lQVjJKSGE0dz09 or go to :zoom.us/join, enter meeting ID:966 2615 7463m enter passcode: 737787
The suggested Self Reliance Process is:
• Stake Specialist/Education Mentors- Alan & Tracy Lovejoy
435-817-2116
435-668-9872
Assigned Wards: 1st, 2nd, 9th
• Stake Specialists/Education Mentors - Troy & Sue Olsen
720-514-2100
720-415-8988
Assigned Wards: 3rd, 7th, 8th Branch
• Stake Specialists/Education Mentors - Roger & Pam Stratford
435-862-1404
Assigned Wards: 4th, 5th 6th
• Co-Chairs Stake Welfare/Self-Reliance Specialists/Education Mentors
Scott & Vera Buys
801-376-1906
801-822-9785
Welfare and Self-Reliance Resources Toolkit
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/shared/content/english/pdf/welfare/wsrs-products/PD60009991_000_WSRS_Tool_Kit_6_16.pdf?lang=eng
Welfare and Self Reliance Resources-One Page Overviews
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/bc/content/ldsorg/welfare/pdf/wsrs-products/PD60009936_000_WelfareSR_Products_Services_Final.pdf
• Life Help - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/families-and-individuals/lifes-challenges/hope-and-help?lang=eng
o To get to this page, click on the Living Life drop down arrow on the main page of the church website, then click on the Life Help link.
o This page includes helpful information on 21 different topics. (abuse, divorce, addiction, emotional health etc. ) This information includes articles, General Conference talks, videos that show experiences from others who have had similar struggles.
o This Life Help page is also available through the Gospel Library.
Self Reliance Services https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance?lang=eng
o To get to this page, click on the link above or , navigate to the Life Help web page as shown above, scroll down through the images and topics and click on the link for Self-Reliance Services.
o This site includes all of the manuals and videos for all of the self-reliance classes (Personal Finances, Life Skills, Find a Better Job, Education for Better Work, Starting & Growing a Business and Emotional Resilience)
• Welfare and Self-Reliance Resources https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/callings/welfare-self-reliance/?lang=eng
o To get to this webpage, navigate to the Life Help web page as shown above, then scroll down through the list of links along the left side of the page. Click on the last link called Welfare.
o This is the webpage that the QR code on the bottom of the Tool Kit document points to.
o This site includes information on Counseling Resources, Services and Programs, and Forms and Resources.
o The Forms and Resources section includes the links to download the Self-reliance Plan, the Tool Kit and the Booklet of One Page Overviews.
• Untied Way – 211 - UTAH 211
o This site is helpful in finding what community resources are available. In addition to this website, there is also a 211 app that can be downloaded.
We appreciate you and your ward leaders’ faithful efforts to organize and utilize Self-Reliance Initiative Groups in 2024. So much good is happening and lives are being blessed by your faithful and valiant efforts.
We have received some valuable feedback as to what works best for your wards as they schedule when and where to hold your courses. Instead of set starting dates, times and places we are asking you to prayerfully determine with your Ward Council when and where to hold these courses so that it works best for the participants being called to join the group. Our ultimate goal continues to have every member of our stake participate in a self-reliance course and be blessed by the principles of spiritual and temporal self-reliance and to teach these principles to their children and grandchildren.
In 2024, we ask that every ward sponsor one Personal Finance Self-Reliance and one Emotional Resilience. The Utah Edication Initiative has been implemented in the stake by calling three couples to serve as both Stake Specialists and Education Mentors to assist wards that have identified those who would benefit in participating in the Utah Education Initiative. These courses and the Utah Education Initiative can be found at utah.churchofjesuschrist.org.
Some wards will choose to offer these courses more than once or as needs arise. Others may choose to attend the course of another ward. We have found that calling the ministering brothers or sisters to attend with those most in need of the course has been very effective.
Bishop, we envision that the majority of your courses will be filled with members from your ward. We ask that you or your counselors meet in person with 12-16 individuals (including couples) from your ward and prayerfully extend a call with the proper doctrinal explanation of the goals and expectations of the course. Besides individuals with immediate needs, you should consider calling those in ward leadership roles to participate in the courses and others as directed by the Spirit.
We recommend that your Ward Welfare and Self-Reliance Specialists be called to facilitate these groups. Our Stake Welfare and Self-Reliance Specialists/Education Mentors are in place to train and lend support to your Ward Welfare and Self-Reliance Specialists.
Your clerks can order manuals from Church Distribution or electronic versions are available on the church website or the Gospel Library app. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to brother Michael Sumner of the High Council, Brother and Sister Buys or to any member of the stake presidency. We love you and your faithful ward leaders’ efforts to bless so many of our Heavenly Fathers children.
Your Stake Presidency,
President Lonnie Clove President Mark Gubler President Darren Ashtonhttp://www.ldsgreenvalleyer.com/
Green Valley Utah Stake Food Storage
Utah Area Temporal Preparedness Guide
South West Utah Public Health-Emergency Preparedness
https://swuhealth.org/emergency-preparedness/
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng
Stake and Ward Emergency Prepardness Guides
Ask a Prepper- Emergency Preparedness Ideas and Information
Websites for Food
Mountain House Adventure Meals
My Patriot Supply Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage and Supplies
Nutri Store Freeze Dried Foods
Primal Survivor Emergency Preparedness
Ready Hour Emergency Food and Gear
Ready Store Emergency and Storage Food
Thrive LIfe Freeze Dried and Dehydrated Food
Utah State University/Extension Online Courses
Controlling and Managing Garden Pests
Backyard Chickens from start to finish
Welfare and Self Reliance Resources
