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Our church seems to have a thing about conferences -a faithful member has to go to at least four per year, more if in certain callings. Just been sitting through a stake conference in which the microphone is barely working. Can’t hear a thing and it’s been so dull. (Am an usher sitting just outside door.)
I actually think this conference obsession loses us members and converts. What are they to make of these three hour marathons sans any kind of visual display, or when they turn up to the ward church and find it empty with no notice to say where everyone has gone to. (Which has happened to me.) Or the endless arm raising for people we know nothing about.
They do provide a break from Ward callings (if a stake conference, like yours sounds like). But I do find them monotonous — but that is true of most church meetings. Same old thing, over and over again. What makes me perk up is personal stories where you get to hear about THE PERSON — their life, their challenges, their unique perspectives. Sadly, none of this is changing in the near future, so it’s something we have to accept.
However, one has freedom to choose how one reacts to the boredom. I choose not to go, unless I want to!
They’ve chosen the two most long winded prayer givers too. :wtf: It’s visible torture to the children too.
This year the sound system isn’t working properly so I could barely make out a thing anyone is saying…. pointless…
I guess audiovisual presentation is out of the question too.
Was going to bow out this year but I give people lifts.
It’s better than it used to be. I recall when stake conference was quarterly and there were two Sunday sessions. The running joke was that the second coming would be during the Sunday afternoon session so the Lord could see who was faithful. Or not so faithful… boy, that was testimony killing. We always go on about things which are “uplifting”. Sitting through a three hour session of noises which are obviously human speech, but barely decipherable… is that uplifting? The hymns maybe! I reckon we lose a lot of new converts with this stuff. It’s institutional too, not “the people”.
Three hours for Stake Conference? Ours usually runs about 1 1/2 – 2 hours in the places I have lived.
Old-Timer wrote:Three hours for Stake Conference?
Ours usually runs about 1 1/2 – 2 hours in the places I have lived.
That’s how long the first inaudible talk felt like… returned missionary talking about something or other.
I think of conferences as permission to take the Sunday off. 😈
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