LDSClerks -- Discussion for LDS Church Ward/Stake Clerks/Secretaries
About LDSClerks	English (USA)
LDSClerks is an email list for Ward and Stake Clerks and Ward and Stake Executive Secretaries to discuss how to perform their duties and to share information about their duties. The duties of Clerks and Executive Secretaries are some of the most complicated in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the discussion is for Clerks, Bishops, Stake Presidents and even the general membership of the Church, may join the list, provided that they stick to the topic. LDSClerks was started in December 1998 by Kent Larsen. Members of the list share their successes and struggles as Clerks or Executive Secretaries and their ideas and tools for making Wards and Stakes successful. Membership in LDSClerks is open to anyone. However, people that violate the list rules will be permanently removed from the list. LDSClerks is delivered through three different servers. Through the user-friendly yahoogroups interface (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsclerks/) or Google Groups interface (http://groups.google.com/group/ldsclerks) and through the mailman list software interface (which you are reading now). All these servers offer their own digest version, in addition to individual messages. Posts from list members using the mailman interface are automatically sent on to all the list members. Posts from yahoogroups or Google Groups and from those not on the list are delayed until the list owner can review them, in order to limit spam. WIKICLERKS PROJECT LSDClerks recently began a wiki project to gather the information we have collected and shared about the clerical function into a single place. Like wikipedia and other public wikis, anyone who registers on the LDSClerks wiki can add pages and make changes to the wiki. We encourage all list members to help improve the wiki and make it another useful source of information for clerks. You can access the wiki at: http://www.ldsclerks.org/ WHO RUNS THIS LIST AND WHY LDSClerks is owned by Kent Larsen. It is run on a server I rent using software provided by my service provider. I provide LDSClerks as a free service to the Mormon community on the Internet. I have no plans to ever charge for this service. By sharing ideas and techniques, I hope that the work of all Clerks and Executive Secretaries will be easier. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the LDSClerks Archives.
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