Church Service Missionaries
The Church-Service Missionary Program provides opportunities for members to give their time to the Lord through service-based missions. Church-service missionaries are members who serve the Church and the Lord for a designated period of time at a specified service location. CSMs usually live at home. This assignment is often in addition to their other ward or stake callings. Typically, they serve at least 8 hours per week for 6-24 months.
To begin the application process, members should fill out a Recommendation for Church-Service Missionary form.
Upon receiving the completed recommendation form, the bishop certifies the worthiness of the member and concurs with the selected choice for service. He then signs the form and forwards it to the stake president.
The stake president interviews the candidate for worthiness and signs the recommendation form and forwards it to the local Church-service missionary coordinator's office for review, for entry into the database, and for authorization to extend the call.
The coordinator advises the stake president by letter when the processing is complete, and the stake president extends the call to the member. The stake president authorizes the bishop to set the new missionary apart.
Church-service missionaries should then contact the operation where they will be serving. They are supervised and trained under the direction of the operation in which they serve. The stake president and bishop remain the ecclesiastical leaders for the member.
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