2013 Churchwide Events

What about Churchwide Events for 2013?? Our stake is almost through scheduling things for next year and the letter from SLC was sent to Stake & Ward leaders weeks ago with these on them! So I figured they should have been added to this calendar by now

We are working with the people in Salt Lake to get more church-wide events on the calendar. Thanks for your patience.

Is there an update on when 2013 Churchwide events will be entered into the calendar? Even if the main events such as General Conference and the First Presidency's Christmas devotional were entered that would be a help in calendar planning. We are in the final stages of our 2013 calendar planning and having these events missing in our calendar is causing many questions and some confusion.

I've sent a request to the team that inputs the events on this calendar asking for an update. I'll post any update regarding a timeline for getting these events added.

I am subscribed to "Churchwide Events" (in the gear and it shows as checked on the left side of the calendar), but I don't see any 2013 items either...other than those we have added.

Any update on this? I'm still not seeing churchwide events such as General Conference.

I too was recently wondering why there are no 2013 Churchwide events yet. I'd like to presume that it's just something that someone hasn't gotten to yet this year as apposed to it being something that no one with the ability to do so knows it needs to be done. But just in case no one who can do it knows it is needed, how do we tell someone and whom do we tell?

Pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if someone is re-thinking the whole "Church-wide thing". Other then the Second Coming, I don't think there is any event that's experienced by the entire church at the same time. Due to time zone differences, some areas shift General Conference to a time when people will actually be awake.

russellhltn wrote:Other then the Second Coming, I don't think there is any event that's experienced by the entire church at the same time.

Well, couldn't they at least put that one on a calendar somewhere? [grin]

On a more serious note (although that was a pretty serious one, actually), I would like to see some form of "pushing" events. In other words, the Church would be able to "push" events of general interest to a stake calendar, and the stake would then adjust it as necessary for the specific broadcast or meeting time, for example. (Or delete it if it truly did not apply.)

And the stake would be able to "push" events to individual wards and branches, such as unit conferences, or other visits and activities that only affect a single ward.

Just a thought.

I have been using the calendar for a few years but when I went to view the 2013 calendar I started realizing that not everything was showing up. I checked and it still shows that I am subscribed to all calendars for the Ward and Stake as well as for Churchwide events, as I have always been. On the calendars the Ward and Stake events are appearing but none of the Churchwide events. This becomes obvious when there are no CES broadcasts shown and no General Conferences shown on the calendar. I tried to unsubscribe to the churchwide and resubscribe thinking that might reset it but it would not let me do it. How can this be fixed so I can get Churchwide events back on the calendar? I need this both for myself and for my callings. Any help appreciated!

mecronin wrote:On the calendars the Ward and Stake events are appearing but none of the Churchwide events.

I moved your post into the existing topic for this issue. There's nothing wrong with your subscriptions -- the problem is that the team responsible for entering the 2013 events on that calendar has still not created those events.

The calendar development team has made that other team aware of the need, but for some reason it still hasn't happened.

If you'll read the posts before yours, you'll see that the events are not there and there's nothing you can do about it. You'll have to find another way to get the information - such as the 2013 Satellite Schedule.

Thanks for the help! I was not aware that the information had not been posted yet. By the way it is not exactly easy locating the the broadcast schedule on the website. I had just located it earlier today after 20 minutes of work when I got tossed off the site and could not get back to it so thank you for the link!!! The dates for things like General Conference are important on the website are important for those of us outside Utah because it is our access to the information when we are planning out things like lessons for the year. Please let the people responsible know this for us. Thanks again!!!!

mecronin wrote:By the way it is not exactly easy locating the the broadcast schedule on the website. I had just located it earlier today after 20 minutes of work when I got tossed off the site and could not get back to it so thank you for the link!!!

The Record-Keeping and Technology Support Site is intended to be the one-stop site for all official information in this realm. I went to that site, searched for "broadcast" and found the broadcast schedule on the first page of search results.

mecronin wrote:The dates for things like General Conference are important on the website are important for those of us outside Utah because it is our access to the information when we are planning out things like lessons for the year.

Of course these dates are equally important for all members; members in Utah need them just as much as those outside Utah.

I noticed today that Churchwide Events for 2013 have been entered.

The first one is "An Evening with a General Authority" ("For Church Educational System (CES) personnel only.")

All times are in Mountain Time. Since we frequently tape-delay the broadcasts, I think we can only use it for planning purposes and suggest that users not subscribe to this calendar.