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I can’t really say for sure. I was never contacted by anyone asking for help with resumes. Maybe it just sat in the bishop’s desk so that he knew who he could call on for various tasks. Roy wrote:
PazamaManX wrote:
I’ll mention another thing that my ward has done from time to time. Every once in awhile, a clipboard will go around during Sunday school with a form for people to request service. At the top of the paper it essentially, but gently, says to only ask for help with things you are doing yourself (IOW don’t ask for something to be done completely for you) and to not expect help just for filling out the form.
I once was in a ward where they passed around a clipboard of talents/skills that you might be willing to help others with. I felt that this was a great opportunity to take an inventory of what kinds of talent that was in the ward and help pair up people in need of helps with those that might have the skills to provide help (or at the very least can help you track down paid help from a reputable service provider). For example, I put down that I could help people in making or refining a resume. I would be happy to do that for everyone that I know.
My ward did this several years ago (20?). There was also a list of tools people were willing to share.
When I was high priest group leader, I got four requests for moving services in June of one year. The last one was a woman who had been in the ward for years and hadn’t told us she was there. Her active relative from another ward asked me to get a couple guys and a truck over to her place so she could move out of the ward, indicating she was “thinking of coming back to church”. I had just coordinated 3 other moves that month and as a quorum we are all “moved out”. I also wasn’t impressed that this woman had never bothered to even tell us she was a member of the ward all the years she lived there. Service should be independent of commitment, but in my view, resources aren’t unlimited for moves like this either. The active relative was not impressed with me at all, as I refused to help that time.
I, therefore, created a HP group moving policy which was later revised into a moving checklist by an inspired member of our PEC who felt my new policy was too harsh. It basically put responsibility for arranging moves on the home teacher if one was assigned (a good reason to have everyone assigned one!) and the person moving out of the Ward. It limited our role in the Ward to making an announcement and providing a ward list if the person was moving out of the ward. We did full service moves for people moving in, however.
It worked — I heard about people moving out of the ward AFTER the HT had helped, or they found their own resources.
Later HPGL’s wrote to me, even when I was less active, asking for the checklist. I had the support of the PEC to “get out of the moving business” as our Bishop described.
I think the fact that no one showed up is evidence of a ward that may be burnt out from moving. Whether this is just a “bad ward” as DJ put it would depend on how hard it is to get people to do other things. DJ — how is the Ward at other forms of service? Do they clean the chapel, volunteer for other service projects? Accept callings and do a decent job of them?
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