Ideas for Weekly Missionary Coordination

Sample Meeting Agenda

Weekly missionary coordination meetings have the potential to help your ward or branch bless many people’s lives. Instructions for these weekly meetings are found in General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 23.4 (Gospel Library), and Preach My Gospel: A Guide to Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ (2023), 221–2. Below you will find a sample agenda, video examples, and additional ideas.

People*	Name(s) and Next Ordinance	What activity, experience, or commitment can help them this week?	Who is assigned to help?	Who is assigned to follow up?
People* People being taught	Name(s) and Next Ordinance e.g. Sam (baptism)	What activity, experience, or commitment can help them this week? Invite and help him register for FSY	Who is assigned to help? Mike/teachers quorum presidency	Who is assigned to follow up? Mike
People* Recently baptized
People* Returning members and part-member families
People* Finding people to teach

*See the My Covenant Path Progress report for a list of:

Some of the people being taught by the missionaries.
People recently baptized.
Returning members.

Principles for Effective Coordination

See an example of how to lead and participate in a weekly coordination meeting.

Meet Weekly: Regular brief meetings and using a group chat to stay in touch between meetings can help you bless more people more often. Get to know the meeting invitees and encourage them to consistently attend!
Take Notes: It can be helpful to ask someone to take notes on assignments and action items.
Make Specific Plans: Each week, plan specific ways to help people progress and to find new people.
Follow Up: Check on the progress of your plans between meetings.
Involve the Youth: Ask for their ideas, listen, and provide them with meaningful assignments!
Act Beyond the Meeting: The most important work happens outside of meetings. Dedicate time each week to help the people you discussed.
Involve Others: Include other ward members in the work, and coordinate with the ward council and temple and family history leaders or consultants.
Share Experiences: Look for brief inspiring ways the Lord is blessing the people you are serving, and share them in your meeting or in a group text.

If there is no one currently being taught and no new members, focus on the other aspects of the agenda, including planning to help:

Members in your ward share the gospel with more people—it doesn’t matter if those people live inside or outside the ward or branch boundaries.
Part-member families and returning members.
Members who haven’t been to church recently. Consider how you and the ward can act on the principles of love, share, and invite and help them attend church or activities and feel welcomed and loved.

Additional Examples of Ward Missionary Coordination

Examples of coordination groups discussing the four groups of people on the agenda.

A coordination group counseling and planning to help people feel loved and welcome in their Church community.

Tips for Finding New People to Teach

Consider part-member families you can serve and help. The bishopric, ward clerk, or others on the ward council can help provide lists of these families and individuals that you could visit, serve, and invite to participate.
Look at upcoming activities, meetings, and classes that the ward could invite people to attend. Consider publishing those activities on your ward web page, where available (see “Share Ward Activities”), and encourage members to invite those who are less familiar with the Church to attend.
Plan which members or ward organizations you could encourage to follow Christ by living the principles of love, share, and invite (see Preach My Gospel, 168). Plan how to and who can share those principles with them and how to follow up and continually support them (see “Ways to Love, Share, and Invite”).
Encourage members to simply invite people to attend church with us.

Avoid turning the principles of love, share, and invite into a program. Find ways to encourage members to make those principles an ongoing part of how they live because of their love and discipleship of the Savior. More ideas on how to do this are included below.

15 Ideas to Encourage your Ward or Branch to Share the Gospel

Here are 15 ideas that the weekly coordination group could do to encourage members to love, share, and invite. Use them for inspiration, or apply what would work best for your ward!

Visit a Class: Take a few minutes to visit a class, quorum, or organization at the beginning of the second hour to highlight upcoming opportunities to love, share, and invite. Consider sharing a brief experience where living those principles blessed those who are not familiar with the Church.
Reach Out: Send messages to members expressing love and appreciation. Ask them if anyone has come to their mind recently that might need to feel their love or join them for an activity in their home or at the church. Whether they have someone in mind or not, continue to encourage them to pray and look for opportunities to love, share, and invite.
Know the Calendar: Remind members of any upcoming opportunities to share with friends and neighbors (for example, a special sacrament meeting like the Primary program, a ward activity, a dinner or home evening at your house, a baptismal service, a sports night, self-reliance or other classes, and so on.
Help Speakers Invite Friends: Contact the members who have been asked to speak in sacrament meeting, and encourage them to invite someone less familiar with the Church to come hear them.
Plan Visits: Each week in the coordination meeting you could decide which members you could visit to discuss love, share, and invite and ask them to think about the opportunities they have to live those principles and share the gospel. Ensure in the coordination meeting that you have planned who will follow up with those families!
Assist the Missionaries: Help members go out on a visit with the missionaries! While you’re together, drop by to say hi to a neighbor or friend.
Share Activities: If your ward is using the activity web page (see the Activity Sharing page), ensure members are aware of it and that the bishopric announces often that activities are found on that page that we can invite friends and neighbors to attend.
Social Media: Encourage members who use social media to include aspects of the gospel that are part of their day-to-day lives and start conversations with those who like and comment on the posts.
Love Your Neighbor: Encourage members to be aware of any neighbors who have had a significant life event (for example, recently married, had a child, recently moved in, and so forth). Make a simple plan to serve and show love to them.
New Move-Ins: Encourage members to share with the ward mission leader those people who are moving in and new housing developments that are being built. Coordinate inviting members to welcome these people to the area, offer help, and share information about the neighborhood, Sunday meetings, and ward activities (see Activity Sharing). Involve the missionaries.
Be Welcoming: Introduce yourself to people you don’t know at church or who are coming for the first time. Help them feel welcomed and loved! Encourage the ward to do the same.
Stay in Touch: Encourage members to stay in touch with those that live far away. If they ever have a need the missionaries can help with, members can introduce them to the missionaries with this online tool.
Service Projects: Organize a service project and invite neighbors and friends. Include a prayer and a quick spiritual thought at some point! You could do the same with an ongoing sports night.
Daily Routine: Encourage members to think about people they have contact with because of their daily routine. Brainstorm how they could live the principles of love, share, and invite with those people.
Phone or Social Contacts: Encourage members to open their list of phone contacts or social media friends and see if they can help someone feel loved with a brief message or share anything that they would appreciate. In some cases, they might want to invite them to an activity in their home or at church.