IDEAS FOR ENCOURAGING
PERSONAL AND FAMILY PREPAREDNESS
YOUTH
--Seminary
--Scouting
--Girls’
camp
--Joint activity - 6 areas of Personal and Family Preparedness (each of
the 3
Aaronic priesthood quorums and 3
Young Women's classes teach one area to the rest)
--Career nights - speakers and field trips
--Class activities - sewing, cooking, first aid, budgeting,
self-sufficiency for missions and college, ironing, laundry, etc. (more ideas
can be found in
The Activity Book available from LDS Church Distribution)
PRIMARY
--Activity days to include physical activities and basic skills of
self-reliance
SUNDAY SCHOOL
--Encourage scripture study with Sunday School classes
RELIEF SOCIETY
--Personal and family preparedness classes
--Displays at
Relief Society meetings
--Dinners that teach healthy eating, low cost cooking and use of food
storage
MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD
QUORUMS
--Service projects that teach or reinforce skills such as carpentry and
car care
--Projects that encourage preparedness as a group i.e. rototilling
everyone's gardens in 1 or 2 weekends
WARD
--Ward sports day
--Ward campout - teach survival skills
--Ward dinners that teach skills
--Firesides and joint priesthood\Relief Society meetings on personal and
family preparedness
--Preparedness displays on Sunday
--Encourage family canning both at the church cannery and at home
--Set up dry pack canning groups
--Have monthly and yearly goals that can be met by a plan such as the
72-hour emergency kit installment plan
--Encourage co-op participation for bulk prices and purchases (without
advertising specifics at church)
--Have activities that teach and encourage effective
family home evenings
--Have a Meetinghouse Library open house to learn of family home evening
resources and to teach material production for home use
HOME
--Teach children to work
--Involve the family in planting a garden and fruit trees and in the
harvest and preservation of the produce
--Teach the gospel
--Use
family home evening to teach skills and preparedness such as:
emergency drills
utility shut off
put together and rotate supplies in emergency kits
basic sewing
cooking
use of tools
basic home repairs
basics of financial management
exercise
gardening
music appreciation
directing music
table manners
social etiquette
activities found in the
Family Home Evening Resource Book
CFD Publications
