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  "textContent": "The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints is inviting Latter-day Saint youth worldwide to prepare for its new Sunday meeting schedule by following and studying a series of new resources, including a recently updated “For the Strength of Youth” guide.\n\nThe church announced on March 30 that its Sunday meetings will change globally beginning Sept. 6.\n\nChurch of Jesus Christ announces change to Sunday meeting schedule\n\n“Central to these adjustments is the updated ‘For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices,’” states a news release recently published on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.\n\nThe guide is a “principle-based, Christ-centered resource” that will become the curriculum for Latter-day Saint young men and young women beginning this fall, the church’s release states. It has been prepared as a resource to help deepen conversion.\n\nThe purpose of the updated guide is to “help youth gain the tools they need to become lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ,” Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman said in the church’s release. “As young women and young men learn to study, apply and live the principles found in the guide, they will naturally become more like Christ.”\n\nHere are some church-provided resources and information for youth, parents and leaders to prepare for the new curriculum and Sunday meeting schedule.\n\nHere’s what Latter-day Saints who have tried the new meeting schedule say about it\n\n### What’s new in the updated ‘For the Strength of Youth’ guide?\n\nThe updated youth guide is 12 chapters long, and each chapter highlights eternal truths, invitations and promised blessings.\n\nBeginning with the new Sunday meeting schedule on Sept. 6, Latter-day Saint young women and young men will study one chapter a month, “learning how to make choices with the Savior Jesus Christ at the center of their lives.”\n\nFive of the new guide’s 12 chapter headings remain the same as the previous guide.\n\nSeven new chapter headings include:\n\n  * “God’s plan is for you”\n  * “God wants to communicate with you”\n  * “You can help with God’s work”\n  * “Ordinances and covenants give you access to God’s blessings”\n  * “Temple ordinances and covenants give you greater access to God’s blessings”\n  * “You are blessed by priesthood keys and authority”\n  * “Jesus Christ brings joy”\n\n\n\nThe new guide also includes a message from the church’s First Presidency and a revised appendix, index and section on making inspired choices.\n\nYouth are invited to read the entire guide before Sept. 6, “becoming familiar with its teachings and learning how to use it as a lifelong resource for discipleship and decision-making,” per the church’s release.\n\nThe desired outcomes for those who study the guide is that they will:\n\n  * Become lifelong disciples of Christ with a firm understanding of his gospel.\n  * Be prepared for the endowment with a deeper understanding of priesthood ordinances and covenant promises.\n  * Be prepared for a mission with a desire to serve the Lord.\n  * Be focused on their future family with an understanding that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to God’s plan.\n  * Know Jesus Christ is their strength.\n\n\n\nThe guide is currently available on Gospel Library, with printed copies arriving at church units worldwide.\n\nYouth, parents, leaders and children turning 12 in 2027 are invited to gather in their congregations to participate in a worldwide discussion day for youth on Sunday, Aug. 30. to prepare for the new curriculum.\n\nThe gathering — through instructional videos provided by the church and local discussion — will serve to “introduce the new curriculum, demonstrate how to use the guide effectively and offer practical instruction on how youth can participate fully in weekly classes” beginning Sept. 6.\n\n### Join a worldwide read-a-thon of the youth guide ahead of September changes\n\nThe church’s For the Strength of Youth Instagram account (formerly called Strive to Be) will be hosting a worldwide reading experience of the new guide beginning Sunday, May 3.\n\nYouth, parents and leaders are invited to participate by reading one chapter of the new guide a week.\n\nThe For the Strength of Youth account will be making weekly posts with reading invitations, insights and testimonies from other youth and application ideas to accompany the reading experience.\n\n“Lifelong discipleship begins with daily discipleship,” Young Men General President Timothy L. Farnes said in the church’s release.\n\n“As we look toward September 2026, let’s begin today to prayerfully study the FSY guide and its accompanying scriptures. As you walk with him, you will discover that Jesus Christ is your strength. Allow him to be your guide in every choice you make.”\n\n### Other resources for parents, leaders and youth\n\nLatter-day Saint youth, parents and leaders are also invited to follow the church’s Young Men and Young Women social media accounts. Links to these accounts on Facebook and Instagram are as follows:\n\n  * Young Women Worldwide: Facebook and Instagram\n  * Young Men Worldwide: Facebook and Instagram\n\n\n\nYouth, parents and leaders are also encouraged to subscribe, at no cost, to receive monthly issues of the church’s “For the Strength of Youth” magazine.\n\nStarting this September, each youth magazine issue will include curriculum materials supporting weekly classes for Young Women and Young Men. These materials will be printed in the back and be accompanied by testimonies, examples and stories that help youth live the gospel.\n\nThose interested can subscribe to have their household receive a free monthly youth magazine issue at Magazines.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.\n\nDigital copies of each issue will also be available on Gospel Library on the 10th day of the preceding month. A sneak peak of the September curriculum is available here.\n\nFor more information about how to implement the new youth curriculum, visit Young Women Worldwide and/or Young Men Worldwide on Facebook or Instagram (links above) to see the Young Women and Young Men general presidencies answer FAQs.\n\nPresident Oaks extends invitations to youths and young adults\n\n5 insights about the new Young Women age-group names\n\nHow the new Young Women age-group names carry identity that will ‘translate’ globally and into discipleship",
  "title": "How Latter-day Saint youth can prepare for new curriculum, new Sunday meeting schedule"
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