Lesson 4: Planning Service and Activities

You may teach this lesson in its entirety or separate it into shorter segments. Adapt the lesson to your local circumstances and the needs, ages, and understanding of your quorum or class presidency.

Service and Activities Can Help Us Follow the Savior

In His youth, Jesus Christ “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man” (Luke 2:52). Ask quorum and class presidency members to discuss why service and activities are important. How can they help us become more like the Savior?

We Can Accomplish the Lord’s Work through Purposeful Planning

Invite presidency members to review the principles listed in Service and Activity Guidelines for Youth. Have them use the Service and Activity Planner to help them make a list of a few service and activity ideas that follow those principles. Ask them to plan one of those activities in more detail using the Detailed Service and Activity Plan. In a future presidency meeting, ask them to review the activities they have had and how successful they were, according to the principles in Service and Activity Guidelines for Youth.

Supporting Resources

“Six Tips to Planning Awesome Activities”
Service and activity ideas at ChildrenandYouth.ChurchofJesusChrist.org
General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, chapter 20, ChurchofJesusChrist.org
JustServe.org
“Service and Activities”