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Mormonism grows; devotion begins in youth
Trevar Dahl spends an hour before school each morning studying the Bible with seven other teens. "It's the best way to start the day, and it helps us with a pretty good knowledge of scripture," said Trevar, a 16-year-old junior at Cloverleaf High School near Lodi. "We attend classes for four...
Ohio Mormons committed to their faith
Mormon Life says: This Ohio newspaper features Cleveland members and what it's like to be a Mormon.
Trevar Dahl spends an hour before school each morning studying the Bible with seven other teens. “It’s the best way to start the day, and it helps us with a pretty good knowledge of scripture,”...
Seminary in the jungles of Ecuador
East of Quito, Ecuador, past the volcanoes and Andes Mountains, the terrain drops swiftly to the Amazon jungle. There you’ll find thick forests, abundant rivers, monkeys, toucans, and even pink dolphins. You’ll also find a city called Puerto Francisco de Orellana. It’s a long ways from, well,...
Liahona, New Era special sections offer helps for seminary teachers, students
A typical day for Nick Prince begins at 5:30 a.m., when he wakes up, having prepared the night before to teach high school-age students from the Champaign-Urbana area of Illinois, USA, who attend early-morning seminary five days a week. “There is a part of me that loves teaching seminary and a...
Seminary offers a ‘haven’ for today’s students
The seminary program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates its 100th birthday this year. What started as a response to the public school system that gradually replaced private, church-owned academies in Utah, the seminary program was designed to supplement a secular...
Landmark talk by President J. Reuben Clark set standard for church education
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After working for a year as a substitute, Brad Howell was hired as a full-time LDS seminary teacher in 1987. During summer training, he was introduced to President J. Reuben Clark’s classic 1938...
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A Foundation of Faith: 100 Years of Seminary
Mormon Life says: This is an incredible video I highly recommend watching.
ASL seminary classes blossom at site of original seminary class
One hundred years ago, in a building adjacent to Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Thomas J. Yates served as the teacher of the first seminary class in the Church, a revolutionary undertaking for the time. Today, a century later, much has changed—Granite High School has closed, for...
President Packer seminary centennial: How to survive in enemy territory
Fifty years and more than 2.5 million miles of worldwide travel later, President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve still has an ever-deepening interest in the seminary and institute programs of the Church, and more particularly in the youth of the Church. “We invest in our youth,”...
/default.jpg" class="feature right" width="105px" />Seminary 100th anniversary commemorated in worldwide broadcast
President Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, will speak at a broadcast on the 100-year anniversary of the Church’s seminary program, where high school age students learn about the Holy Scriptures. The event will be held in Salt Lake City at the Conference Center 22...
Seminary program celebrates century of teaching Mormon teens
In 1912, adjacent to Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, Thomas J. Yates assumed the challenging task of organizing and teaching the first seminary class of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). Yates, a Cornell University trained engineer and a power plant employee,...
Seminary Superman
Editor's note: With the upcoming 100-year celebration of the LDS Church's seminary program, Mormon Times is sharing experiences and blessings from those who participated in the program. When my dad, "Brother" Lynn Humphreys, was a new seminary teacher in the 1970s, he easily resembled Clark Kent....
Blessings come from getting up early
Editor's note: With the upcoming 100-year celebration of the LDS Church's seminary program, Mormon Times is sharing experiences and blessings from those who participated in the program. To put it as plainly as I possibly can, seminary truly has helped me to be where I am today. Although we may...
Seminary lessons learned by a teacher
Editor's note: With the upcoming 100-year celebration of the LDS Church's seminary program, Mormon Times is sharing experiences and blessings from those who participated in the program. It was after I taught seminary for a year that I learned sometimes the greatest rewards in life come after the...
