Church will start sending e-mails to members


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http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-send-email-messages-members-worldwide

 

 

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will soon begin receiving an email message from the First Presidency for the first time. The first email is being sent this week to a small group of about 10,000 members in the United States as the system is tested. Emails will be sent to millions of Church members throughout the world in 10 languages on December 3 and 4, 2014.

 

The newsletter contains a message from the First Presidency and two announcements concerning the Christmas season, including a greeting and information about the upcoming “He Is the Gift” initiative and the First Presidency Christmas devotional.

 

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This could be interesting or it could be tedious.  As a general rule, I unsubscribe from anything that sends me more than three e-mails in a week*.  This would be no exception.

 

* My ward mission leader used to send somewhere between 2 and 4 emails a week to the ward.  I got particularly irritated one day when he sent four e-mails within 90 minutes.  I wrote a rule to immediately move any e-mail from him to my trash folder.  I have to admit, it's been kind of nice.

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This is cool! I am very excited to see what this looks like.

But, are they really going to be from the First Presidency? Or will they be written by church workers based on bullet point summaries from the First Presidency? Because if that's the case, then the emails are really from Church HQ, that the First Presidency is merely involved in. Which is perfectly fine, too, and still fun. :)

I am not trying to be critical or negative. I am a bit of a philosopher and causality is something I just like to think about. It's just fun for me. Regardless of how one looks at it, this is still really cool and I am excited for it. :)

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I like the idea from an environmental standpoint, if it helps reduce the paper used annually, I'm all for digital newsletters. 

 

Despite MoE's bit of smarminess the newsletters won't be replacing the Ensign (which is available online already if one wanted to avoid a paper copy) and unless I've missed something over the years, they won't be replacing monthly paper newsletters coming from the First Presidency. So it's unlikely this will reduce paper use. I suppose if they are gung ho enough about monthly newsletters such that they'd do them even with the costs involved in a hard-copy newsletter it could be considered a paper reduction measure, but from the sounds of it they aren't deciding to save paper by burning electronics, they just decided to burn more electrons.

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I just got the email, and "newsletter" would be a generous way to describe it.  It contains three items, and the first item announces the newsletter itself. 

 

I mean, I wasn't expecting an advice column, advertising, or a crossword puzzle, but this is pretty modest.  Perhaps it will grow with time.  It's not like the cost of paper and delivery would limit the size.

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  • 4 weeks later...

It's not based on any ward directories.  It's based on the email address you used when you set up your LDS account.

Oh good.  For some reason, through three secretaries now, my phone number and email in the ward directory seem to get messed up again about 6 months after I fix them.

 

It does keep the phone calls to a minimum, though :)

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The email I used for my lds account is what ended up in our ward directory that can be viewed online by logging into my lds account. All I can say is hmm. If it doesn't automatically get put there that means someone else did, and it certainly wasn't me. So I was under the impression that lds account and the corresponding online ward directory would be the same.

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