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.

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

;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.

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

== B ==
;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.

;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

;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.

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

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;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

;Convert

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

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council

;District

;District Clerk

;District President

== E ==
;Elders Quorum

;Elders Quorum President

;Endowment

;Equalised 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

== F ==
;Family History Center

;Fast Offering

;FHC : Family History Center

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

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

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

;[[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 CHI

== H ==
;High Priests Group

;High Priests Group Leader

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

;Home Teacher

;Home Teaching

== I ==
;Inactive

;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

== L ==
;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

;[[LUWS]] : Local Unit Web Site

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[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)

;MRN : Membership Record Number

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

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

;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

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

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

;Presiding Bishop

;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

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

== S ==
;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

;Stake

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

;Stake 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.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

== 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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