Here are four exciting resources to inspire your ward or branch to be welfare-minded.

This step will help you reach most of your ward, month after month with a new ward welfare message. It takes the least amount of time.

Here's how: Download this permissions form.
Print 5 copies.

Pass it Around The Class

Ask your leaders to let you pass this permissions form around the class in relief society and in priesthood meetings. Invite the teachers in primary to sign-up too. Let members sign-up to receive the Ward Welfare e-newsletter.

Subscribe For Them

With their consent, Opt-In online for each member. This is far more effective than asking members to do it themselves.

Phone Follow-up

Using your ward list, identify members you have missed. Phone them and ask for permission to email them the ward welfare e-newsletter. Opt-In online for them. Respect members' wishes who do not want to receive emails.

It's different each month.

It's a second way to reach your members every month. It also reaches members who do not have email.

The monthly Ward Welfare Handout is different than the e-Newsletter.

Download the monthly Ward Welfare Handout. Modify it and add your own announcements. Photocopy and share copies around in priesthood and in relief society.

You need skilled members with welfare-related talents to educate the ward.

They're more likely to be motivated and confident.

Search for talent and skills within your ward. Particularly welfare skills. I handed scrap-paper and pens around in Relief Society and Priesthood. It took just 7 minutes. I asked people to write down their name, then list any talents or skills they had in the areas of food storage, food production, gardening, and provident living.

Invite members who are already skilled to share their skills and talents.

Plan Exhibits

Great welfare exhibits include small demonstrations as part of relief society, enrichment, priesthood meetings and stake conference. Ask your experts to do these.

Our stake conference closed 40 minutes early and moved into the cultural hall for a social-fun, information-packed cluster of welfare exibits by twenty different welfare experts. We drank soup made from home storage items. Chatted. Looked. Learned new ideas. Got enthused. It had a lasting impact on the whole stake.

Above: Glenview NZ Stake Conference 2009. Plan your exhibits at Ward and Stake Welfare meetings.