Welcome All

“Reach out to anyone who appears at the doors of your Church buildings. Welcome them with gratitude and without prejudice. If people you do not know walk into one of your meetings, greet them warmly and invite them to sit with you. Please make the first move to help them feel welcome and loved, rather than waiting for them to come to you.

“After your initial welcome, consider ways you can continue to minister to them.”

Bishop Gerald Causse, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, “Ye Are No More Strangers,” Ensign, Nov. 2013, 51. 

Less Active

“The Church is established to give us guidance and direction and to make available the ordinances and covenants that we need to progress in this life and prepare for all that our Heavenly Father has in store for us in the life to come. Therefore, I would like to draw your attention to why we have asked over and over again that you do what you can to try to draw some of those who are less active back into fellowship in the Church. That is critical for us to understand because it’s what the Atonement is all about. . . .And so as you look about in your ward and your area and as you’re going to school or to work, may I give you an assignment to have the courage to accept the challenge to try to bring one of our Father’s children back into activity. I promise you as you do that and as you trust the Lord and you pray about it and you seek for guidance and for strength to do what you can do, you’re going to have some spiritual experiences.”

Elder M. Russell Ballard, “Preparing for the Future,” From an address given to young single adults at an April 28, 2011, meeting in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.