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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;[[Consolidated Financial Statement]] : Monthly summary for the stake of all units' financial activity.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSC - [[Global Service Center]]
: The GSC helps with questions and problems related to computers, Distribution Services, and clerk and leader issues.

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: Former name for the Global Service Center (GSC).

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

; IMOS - Internet Mission Office System

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

; IROP - Internal Record Of Purchase : A document used to record internal Church purchase transactions. The most common IROP transactions for Church units are those made at LDS Distribution Services either online, through the LDS Store, or by telephone. Unit IROPs are transmitted electronically through MLS.

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[Administrative office#Local Unit Support|LUS]] : Local Unit Support Group - Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, provides support for priesthood leaders in Canada and the United States.

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : ''Obsolete''. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;[[Consolidated Financial Statement]] : Monthly summary for the stake of all units' financial activity.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSC - [[Global Service Center]]
: The GSC helps with questions and problems related to computers, Distribution Services, and clerk and leader issues.

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: Former name for the Global Service Center (GSC).

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

; IMOS - Internet Mission Office System

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

; IROP - Internal Record Of Purchase : A document used to record internal purchase transactions within the Church. The most common IROP transactions for Church units are those made at LDS Distribution Services either online, through the LDS Store, or by telephone. Unit IROPs are transmitted electronically through MLS.

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[Administrative office#Local Unit Support|LUS]] : Local Unit Support Group - Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, provides support for priesthood leaders in Canada and the United States.

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : ''Obsolete''. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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Glossary

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;[[Consolidated Financial Statement]] : Monthly summary for the stake of all units' financial activity.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSC - [[Global Service Center]]
: The GSC helps with questions and problems related to computers, Distribution Services, and clerk and leader issues.

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: Former name for the Global Service Center (GSC).

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

; IMOS - Internet Mission Office System

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

; IROP - Internal Record Of Purchase : An IROP is used to document purchase transactions within the Church. The most common IROP transactions for Church units are those made at LDS Distribution Services either online, through the LDS Store, or by telephone. IROPs for unit purchases arrive electronically through MLS.

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[Administrative office#Local Unit Support|LUS]] : Local Unit Support Group - Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, provides support for priesthood leaders in Canada and the United States.

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : ''Obsolete''. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Talk:Editing your profile (Directory)

2012-02-06T20:16:13Z

Jdlessley:

== Problems changing phone numbers ==
can't make changes to phone numbers on list, it tells me incorrect format for e-mail, and it is a phone number i am trying to change. NOT VERY USER FRIENDLY!!!!! -- [[User:Ralger|Ralger]] 22:31, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

: This kind of issue is better reported on the LDSTech Forum. These talk pages are to discuss the documentation, not the way the application works. -- [[User:Aebrown|Aebrown]] 05:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

== Request to change personal information ==
[[User:Alfredwilliam|Alfredwilliam]], I undid your recent edit. It appears you were using this wiki page, which is general documentation for the Directory application on lds.org, to make a specific request for a change in your membership information. No one here can help you with that; you need to discuss it with your ward clerk. I'm sure he'd be happy to help you. -- [[User:Aebrown|Aebrown]] 05:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

== Change perspective of article instructions ==
The title of the article indicates the article is directed at an individual editing only their personal directory profile. The information that can actually be edited extends to include the household profile as well as other household member's profile information. The article also does not address rights to edit profiles based on household status. As I understand it, minors, those under 18, cannot edit the household profile or even their personal profile.

The title as well as the article "speaking to" any individual should be changed to reflect those who can actually edit the household as well as individual directory profiles. How about "Editing directory profiles" for the title?

Without knowledge of the actual behaviors for individuals with different rights I do not want to attempt to edit this article. I only see what I have as an administrator and what my wife can see as an adult member. We have no adult or minor children in our household to test various rights.--[[User:Jdlessley|Jdlessley]] 20:16, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Stake technology specialist

2011-07-27T03:51:53Z

Jdlessley:

==Other Responsibilities==
Contributor Retiredtech has made changes that to me appear to be personal opinion and only confuses the issue for those looking for definitive guidance Churchwide. The change is to line 25 where a comment is added about having two stake technology specialists. This change was also entered as a minor change. By LDSTech wiki guidelines this is not a minor change and the change should have been noted in this discussion area before making the controversial change. I think the change submitted should be removed since there is no supporting documentation and it is just opinion.[[User:Jdlessley|Jdlessley]] 17:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

: I agree, and so I have undone that recent change. Handbook 1, section 13.3.3, only uses the singular in referring to the stake technology specialist. I'd be happy to restore the change if supporting documentation can show that this is an approved option, but I don't think such documentation exists. A stake technology specialist is welcome to obtain help from others skilled in particular technologies, but the responsibility is still his. -- [[User:Aebrown|Aebrown]] 22:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

: A change was recently made to MLS to support multiple STS's in a single stake, and a worldwide survey of stake leadership indicated that a large percentage of stakes now have multiple STS's. There is some informal documentation stating what Retiredtech said, but I don't know if there have been any public statements to this effect yet. While there is nothing technically wrong with the suggestion to have multiple STS's in a stake, I suppose it is your right to remove the suggestion. But, it is a good suggestion that many stakes are already following.[[User:Knaptonks|- Ken]] 06:27, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

: To place the statement as worded by contributor Retiretech in the wiki without an official statement or document is a bit presumptive or at least preemptive and it adds confusion. I would be more soft in the wording until there is something official. In fact, Ken's first sentence would be more appropriate. In other words there could be a statement that indicates a change trend. As I read Retiredtech's statement it looked like direction from CHQ. The statement creates more confusion with regard to what part of the the responsibilities of an STS are then handled by each STS. At first it looks clear. But when the Handbook and other documents are considered in relation to Retiredtech's statement I was wondering who really has the responsibilities of the STS. While a stake president can have two or more STSs to handle the growing work load, is it not up to him who handles what work? Would there be an STS and assistant STSs? It is not clear.[[User:Jdlessley|Jdlessley]] 03:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Stake technology specialist

2011-07-25T17:45:01Z

Jdlessley:

Talk:Stake technology specialist

2011-07-25T17:42:05Z

Jdlessley:

Contributor Retiredtech has made changes that to me appear to be personal opinion and only confuses the issue for those looking for definitive guidance Churchwide. The change is to line 25 where a comment is added about having two stake technology specialists. This change was also entered as a minor change. By LDSTech wiki guidelines this is not a minor change and the change should have been noted in this discussion area before making the controversial change. I think the change submitted should be removed since there is no supporting documentation and it is just opinion.[[User:Jdlessley|Jdlessley]] 17:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Stake technology specialist

2011-07-25T17:37:27Z

Jdlessley: Created page with 'Contributor Retiredtech has made changes that to me appear to be personal opinion and only confuses the issue for those looking for definitive guidance Churchwide. The change is …'

Contributor Retiredtech has made changes that to me appear to be personal opinion and only confuses the issue for those looking for definitive guidance Churchwide. The change is to line 25 where a comment is added about having two stake technology specialists. This change was also entered as a minor change. By wiki guidelines this is not a minor change. I would like to have the change he submitted removed since there is no supporting documentation.[[User:Jdlessley|Jdlessley]] 17:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Church Account

2009-06-08T05:51:02Z

Jdlessley:

'''LDS Account''' is a single user name and password for any person who interacts with online LDS Church resources. LDS Account will become the primary account authentication credentials for most Church sites and applications. This will reduce development costs that would be incurred as the user interfaces change, or as upgrades to security and the registration process are required. Unlike today’s authentication, which requires our customers to memorize many user names and passwords, the goal of LDS Account is to become a branded single sign-on solution that is centrally managed.

== Overview ==
When registering for an LDS Account, members of the LDS Church are asked to provide their MRN (membership record number) and their confirmation date. Members can obtain this information by asking their ward clerk for their [[Individual Ordinance Summary]]. A member’s MRN can also be found on the back of the temple recommend.

Account recovery (such as forgotten user names and passwords) is handled through the e-mail address that the customer used to register. Although there is not currently a phone number or global support desk available to non-employees, scalable support models for customers who need assistance beyond self-service capabilities are being investigated.

While anyone can register for an LDS Account, when a member registers using their MRN and confirmation date, Church applications like lds.org will be able to take advantage of LDS Account credentials to determine and grant appropriate access based on their current role (e.g. bishop, stake president, etc.). As a member’s role changes, so can the access level of their LDS Account.

Over forty Web sites and applications use LDS Account credentials for authentication. While most of these Web sites are internal, there are a few publicly available sites that use LDS Account, such as the stake and ward Web sites, LDS Art Competition, and a religious class registration site for Logan, Utah institute students. Customers of familysearch.org will be migrated to an LDS Account in the near future. See [[Church Websites]] for a more complete list of sites that use LDS Account.

== Create an account ==

To obtain a free LDS Account:
# Visit http://ldsaccount.lds.org
# Select the button '''Register for an LDS Account'''.
# Select whether you are a Church member ('''Yes''' or '''No''').
#* If you are a Church member:
#*# You will be prompted to fill in your membership record number and confirmation date.
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Confirm your identity.
#*# You will see your first and last name filled in.
#* If you are a '''not''' a Church member:
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Enter your first and last name.
# Enter your display name (this is not your user name that you will use to login, but rather the way your name will be displayed in some applications).
# Enter your email address. Double check it and make sure it is correct. You’ll need your email address if you forget your password.
# Select your country and preferred language, then select '''Next Step'''.
# Enter your desired user name and password
# Review the Conditions of Use. If you accept them, click '''I Accept'''.
# Review your account information. Print, if desired.
# Click '''Create Account'''.
# Check your email (the one that you provided to LDS Account).
# Open the email sent to you from LDSAccount@ldschurch.org.
# Click on the link in your email.
# Click '''Continue''' in the new window that pops up.
# Your Registration is complete!

You may edit your profile information at any time by returning to http://ldsaccount.lds.org

== See also ==
* [[Church Websites]] for websites using LDS Account credentials for authentication.

== References ==
* {{LDSTech|post=22765|title=LDS Account}}
* {{LDSTech|thread=2679|title=Introduction to LDS Account}}

[[Category:Technology]]

Church Account

2009-06-08T05:49:53Z

Jdlessley:

'''LDS Account''' is a single user name and password for any person who interacts with online LDS Church resources. LDS Account will become the primary account authentication credentials for most Church sites and applications. This will reduce development costs that would be incurred as the user interfaces change, or as upgrades to security and the registration process are required. Unlike today’s authentication, which requires our customers to memorize many user names and passwords, the goal of LDS Account is to become a branded single sign-on solution that is centrally managed.

== Overview ==
When registering for an LDS Account, members of the LDS Church are asked to provide their MRN (membership record number) and their confirmation date. Members can obtain this information by asking their ward clerk for their [[Individual Ordinance Summary]]. A member’s MRN can also be found on the back of the temple recommend.

Account recovery (such as forgotten user names and passwords) is handled through the e-mail address that the customer used to register. Although there is not currently a phone number or global support desk available to non-employees, scalable support models for customers who need assistance beyond self-service capabilities are being investigated.

While anyone can register for an LDS Account, when a member registers using their MRN and confirmation date, Church applications like lds.org will be able to take advantage of LDS Account credentials to determine and grant appropriate access based on their current role (e.g. bishop, stake president, etc.). As a member’s role changes, so can the access level of their LDS Account.

Over forty Web sites and applications use LDS Account credentials for authentication. While most of these Web sites are internal, there are a few publicly available sites that use LDS Account, such as the stake and ward Web sites, LDS Art Competition, and a religious class registration site for Logan, Utah institute students. Customers of familysearch.org will be migrated to an LDS Account in the near future. See [[Church Websites]] for a more complete list of sites that use LDS Account.

== Create an account ==

To obtain a free LDS Account:
# Visit http://ldsaccount.lds.org
# Select the button '''Register for an LDS Account'''.
# Select whether you are a Church member ('''Yes''' or '''No''').
#* If you are a Church member:
#*# You will be prompted to fill in your membership record number and confirmation date.
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Confirm your identity.
#*# You will see your first and last name filled in.
#* If you are a '''not''' a Church member:
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Enter your first and last name.
# Enter your display name (this is not your user name that you will use to login, but rather the way your name will be displayed in some applications).
# Enter your email address. Double check it and make sure it is correct. You’ll need your email address if you forget your password.
# Select your country and preferred language, then select '''Next Step'''.
# Enter your desired user name and password
# Review the Conditions of Use. If you accept them, click '''I Accept'''.
# Review your account information. Print, if desired.
# Click '''Create Account'''.
# Check your email (the one that you provided to LDS Account).
# Open the email sent to you from LDSAccount@ldschurch.org.
# Click on the link in your email.
# Click '''Continue''' in the new window that pops up.
# Your Registration is complete!

You may edit your profile information at any time by returning to http://ldsaccount.lds.org

== See also ==
* [[Church_Websites]] for websites using LDS Account credentials for authentication.

== References ==
* {{LDSTech|post=22765|title=LDS Account}}
* {{LDSTech|thread=2679|title=Introduction to LDS Account}}

[[Category:Technology]]

Church Account

2009-06-08T05:49:12Z

Jdlessley:

'''LDS Account''' is a single user name and password for any person who interacts with online LDS Church resources. LDS Account will become the primary account authentication credentials for most Church sites and applications. This will reduce development costs that would be incurred as the user interfaces change, or as upgrades to security and the registration process are required. Unlike today’s authentication, which requires our customers to memorize many user names and passwords, the goal of LDS Account is to become a branded single sign-on solution that is centrally managed.

== Overview ==
When registering for an LDS Account, members of the LDS Church are asked to provide their MRN (membership record number) and their confirmation date. Members can obtain this information by asking their ward clerk for their [[Individual Ordinance Summary]]. A member’s MRN can also be found on the back of the temple recommend.

Account recovery (such as forgotten user names and passwords) is handled through the e-mail address that the customer used to register. Although there is not currently a phone number or global support desk available to non-employees, scalable support models for customers who need assistance beyond self-service capabilities are being investigated.

While anyone can register for an LDS Account, when a member registers using their MRN and confirmation date, Church applications like lds.org will be able to take advantage of LDS Account credentials to determine and grant appropriate access based on their current role (e.g. bishop, stake president, etc.). As a member’s role changes, so can the access level of their LDS Account.

Over forty Web sites and applications use LDS Account credentials for authentication. While most of these Web sites are internal, there are a few publicly available sites that use LDS Account, such as the stake and ward Web sites, LDS Art Competition, and a religious class registration site for Logan, Utah institute students. Customers of familysearch.org will be migrated to an LDS Account in the near future. See [[Church Websites]] for a more complete list of sites that use LDS Account.

== Create an account ==

To obtain a free LDS Account:
# Visit http://ldsaccount.lds.org
# Select the button '''Register for an LDS Account'''.
# Select whether you are a Church member ('''Yes''' or '''No''').
#* If you are a Church member:
#*# You will be prompted to fill in your membership record number and confirmation date.
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Confirm your identity.
#*# You will see your first and last name filled in.
#* If you are a '''not''' a Church member:
#*# Fill in the CAPTCHA and select '''Next Step'''.
#*# Enter your first and last name.
# Enter your display name (this is not your user name that you will use to login, but rather the way your name will be displayed in some applications).
# Enter your email address. Double check it and make sure it is correct. You’ll need your email address if you forget your password.
# Select your country and preferred language, then select '''Next Step'''.
# Enter your desired user name and password
# Review the Conditions of Use. If you accept them, click '''I Accept'''.
# Review your account information. Print, if desired.
# Click '''Create Account'''.
# Check your email (the one that you provided to LDS Account).
# Open the email sent to you from LDSAccount@ldschurch.org.
# Click on the link in your email.
# Click '''Continue''' in the new window that pops up.
# Your Registration is complete!

You may edit your profile information at any time by returning to http://ldsaccount.lds.org

== See also ==
* [[https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/Church_Websites]] for websites using LDS Account credentials for authentication.

== References ==
* {{LDSTech|post=22765|title=LDS Account}}
* {{LDSTech|thread=2679|title=Introduction to LDS Account}}

[[Category:Technology]]