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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;[[Consolidated Financial Statement]] : Monthly summary for the stake of all units' financial activity.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : ''Obsolete''. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : ''Obsolete''. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Obsolete. See Consolidated Financial Statement.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS - Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units) has been replaced by the Consolidated Financial Statement for those units using CUBS.

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administrative office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administrative office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administrative offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

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The online '''Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders (CDOL)''' provides authorized priesthood leaders and clerks with information on Church units and other organizations within the Church, including contact information for their leaders. CDOL is available to:
* General Authorities
* Church headquarters managers and employees based on their assigned responsibilities
* Area administrative office managers and employees based on their assigned responsibilities
* Local priesthood leaders worldwide

== Capabilities ==
CDOL allows leaders to:
* Look up leaders of other units, including contact information
* See the organizational structure of units. For example, a stake would have links to the wards and branches within the stake and any family history centers in the stake, as well as larger entities that include the stake, such as areas, welfare regions, temple districts, etc.
* Access a Unit Locator to find what ward and stake contains a given street address
* View current unit boundary maps.
* Find how to contact any Church department
* Create a customized directory
* Perform searches for organizations or leaders using multiple search criteria
* Save searches
* See the current local time for units
* See all [[Callings#Difference between standard positions and custom positions|Standard Positions]] for units in the user's ward and stake
** ''This is currently available to bishops and branch presidents, stake and district presidencies and stake and district clerks.''

== Accessing CDOL ==
This online CDOL uses [[LDS Account]] credentials and is located at https://cdol.lds.org. If you do not have an LDS Account, you will need to [[LDS_Account#Create_an_account|create]] one the first time you visit the website. This can be done by clicking the link "Register for an LDS Account."

=== Authorized users ===
User privileges are based on the nature of the assignment (such as Stake President, Bishop, Ward Clerk, Church Employee, etc.). In most cases, users have only search and view capabilities. Adding and editing rights are limited to users in specific positions, such as managers and employees at Church Headquarters and Area Administrative Offices.

To have access, users must be listed in the correct standard position in CDOL and have an LDS Account. People with these [[callings]] will be listed in CDOL if they have been added using the appropriate [[Leader and Unit Change Request]] form or are properly listed in MLS using the standardized callings.

The following positions have been approved for access:
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Stake
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Ward
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| Stake President||Bishop
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| Stake Presidency Counselors||Bishopric Counselors
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| Stake Clerk and Assistant Clerks||Ward Clerk and Assistant Clerks
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| Stake Executive Secretary and Assistant Executive Secretary||Executive Secretary
|-
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|District
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Branch
|-
| District President||Branch President
|-
| District Presidency Counselors||Branch Presidency Counselors
|-
| District Clerk and Assistant Clerks||Branch Clerk and Assistant Clerks
|-
| District Executive Secretary and Assistant Executive Secretary||Branch Executive Secretary
|-
|}

The above positions have the following rights:
* View all public non sensitive data.
* Edit contact information for their positions.
* View all Church standard positions for their units.
* Stake/District positions can view all standard positions on their child units.
* Ward/Branch positions can view all standard positions for their Stake/District.
* View current unit boundary maps.

==== Family History Center directors ====
FHC directors can access CDOL, but can only view the following organizations: Family History Center, Family History Service Center, Family History Training Center, and Family History Center - Public Library.

=== Alternative for those without access to CDOL ===
Someone without access to CDOL can look up the leader of a congregation using [[LDS Maps]]. Enter a member's address and the congregation responsible for that location is displayed. Click on that congregation's link to view the bishop's last name and a phone number.

For moving membership records, it is helpful to have the ward and stake unit numbers and names for the member's new address<ref>{{LDSTech|title=Alternative for getting unit numbers without access to CDOL|post=18744}}</ref>. The popup from maps.lds.org described above will have a link labeled "Go to Website" (assuming the new stake participates in the [[Local Unit Website]] program, which most do). Following that link will take you to the ward's home page. If you look closely at the URL for that page, it will end in "-nnnnnn,00.html"; the "nnnnnn" is the unit number for the ward. Similarly, if you then follow the "Stake Home" link from the ward's home page, you will be taken to the stake's home page, where you can examine the URL to obtain the stake's unit number.

== Data interchange between CDOL and MLS ==
Depending on the position being updated, data may flow in either direction between CDOL and MLS. CDOL also negotiates the exchange of data between stakes and wards when changes made using the stake's MLS affect child units or when changes made using the ward's MLS affect the parent unit.

; General Process
: Clerk enters or changes position(s) in [[MLS]].
: Clerk performs a [[MLS transmission|MLS Send/Receive]].
: CDOL processes data (usually within one hour of receiving, but Sundays may be several hours).
: For Wards/Branches - CDOL sends the positions to the Stake/District.
: For Stakes/Districts - CDOL sends the positions to all the child units.
; Positions which show on the CDOL summary (Stake Clerks, Assistant Stake Clerks, Executive Secretary).
: (All of the General Process applies)
: These are verified by a user at Church Headquarters before the change is shown on the summary page and sent back to units.
; Positions requiring Headquarters approval (Stake Presidency, Bishop).
: (All of the Positions which show on the CDOL summary applies)
: CDOL ensures that the correct approval has been granted before allowing verification.
: For new Stake Presidents this means confirming with the paperwork returned by the visiting General Authority.
: These position changes are done from the Stake’s MLS through the [[Leader and Unit Change Request]].

== Supported languages ==
The Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders will be translated into a total of 41 languages. Currently over 80% are translated.

=== Released languages ===
CDOL is currently available in the following languages. ''Please note that languages are viewed based on the user's browser setting. If the user's browser is set to Spanish (es) then the user will see CDOL screen text in Spanish.''

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! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Code
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Language
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Code
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| Albanian||sq|| || Armenian||hy
|-
| Bulgarian||bg|| || Chinese - Traditional||zh
|-
| Czech||cs|| || Danish||da
|-
| Dutch||nl|| || English||en
|-
| Estonian||et|| || Finnish||fi
|-
| Fijian||fj|| || French||fr
|-
| German||de|| || Greek||el
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| Hungarian||hu|| || Italian||it
|-
| Japanese||ja|| || Korean||ko
|-
| Lithuanian||lt|| || Mongolian||mn
|-
| Norwegian||no|| || Polish||pl
|-
| Portuguese||pt|| || Romanian||ro
|-
| Russian||ru|| || Samoan||sm
|-
| Serbian (Cyrillic)||sr|| || Slovak||sk
|-
| Slovenian||sl|| || Spanish||es
|-
| Swedish||sv|| || Thai||th
|-
| Ukrainian||uk|| || Vietnamese||vi
|-
|}

=== Pending translations ===
CDOL is scheduled to be translated into the following languages.

Future releases
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Language
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Code
|-
| Cambodian||km
|-
| Croatian||hr
|-
| Icelandic||is
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| Indonesian||id
|-
| Laotian||lo
|-
| Latvian||lv
|-
| Tongan||to
|-
|}

== CDOL versions ==
{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Version'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Release Date'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|'''Related Pages'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Release Type'''
|-
|2.5.2 || align="center"|11 April 2011 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.5.2|Release Notes]] || align="center"|- || Patch
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|2.5.1 || align="center"|3 Feb 2011 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.5.1|Release Notes]] || align="center"|- || Patch
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|2.5 || align="center"|16 Dec 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.5|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.5|Known Issues]] || Regular
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|2.4.3.2 || align="center"|21 Oct 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.3.2|Release Notes]] || align="center"|- || Patch
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|2.4.3.1 || align="center"|22 Sep 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.3.1|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.4.3.1|Known Issues]] || Regular
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|2.4.3 || align="center"|19 Aug 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.3|Release Notes]] || align="center"|- || Services
|-
|2.4.2 || align="center"|1 Jul 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.2|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.4.2|Known Issues]] || Regular
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|2.4.1.1 || align="center"|20 May 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.1.1|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.4.1.1|Known Issues]] || Patch
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|2.4.1 || align="center"|22 Apr 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.4.1|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.4.1|Known Issues]] || Regular
|-
|2.3.2.1 || align="center"|28 Jan 2010 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.3.2.1|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.3.2.1|Known Issues]] || Regular
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|2.3.2 || align="center"|14 Dec 2009 || [[CDOL Release Notes 2.3.2|Release Notes]] || [[CDOL Known Issues 2.3.2|Known Issues]] || Regular
|}
===== Historical =====
The CDOL has been published in a variety of formats:
* Originally, the CDOL was published in book form.
* Later it was published on CDs that were sent to local units. The last update on CD was distributed in March 2007.
* The first online version of CDOL was created at http://col.ldschurch.org. This website used NetID login credentials. As of 31 December 2008 this site ceased being promoted; in August 2009 it was discontinued and now simply directs users to register for an [[LDS Account]] and then use the new site at http://cdol.lds.org.
* The current version of CDOL was announced in a letter dated 18 December 2008.

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:CDOL]]

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CHQ

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Clerk Hotline

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For certain procedures it is necessary to contact your '''administrative office'''.

*For units in the United States and Canada, the administrative office is Local Unit Support<ref>Featured article on LDSTech: [https://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3445 Local Unit Support].</ref> at Church headquarters (CHQ) in Salt Lake City.
*Outside the United States and Canada, the administrative office is the local Membership and Statistical Records Department (MSR) office that serves your unit.

Normally [[ward clerk]]s will first consult with their [[stake clerk]] on any questions they cannot resolve themselves. This will provide stake clerks with the experience necessary to assist other wards in their stake with similar questions. It will also relieve the administrative office from many of the requests that can be handled locally and allow them to focus on the few issues that only they can resolve.

== Contacting your administrative office ==
Depending on the circumstance, clerks may contact the administrative office via [[MLS]], by e-mail or by phone.

=== Anywhere in the world ===
* Send an [[MLS]] message.
* Send e-mail to [mailto:msrmail@ldsmail.net msrmail@ldsmail.net]

=== In the United States and Canada ===

==== Local Unit Support ====
When ward clerks and stake clerks cannot resolve a clerk-related issue locally, they should contact Local Unit Support through one of the following methods:

* Electronically
** [[MLS]] Message
** E-mail to [mailto:msrmail@ldsmail.net msrmail@ldsmail.net]

*Live Support (Hours are Monday, Thursday, Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Mountain Time))
** Salt Lake area: 801-240-3500
** Long Distance: 1-800-453-3860, extension 23500

For any other issues, call the general Church operator:
* Salt Lake area: 801-240-1000
* Long Distance: 1-800-453-3860

=== Outside the United States and Canada ===
Call the administrative office that services your stake.

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Unit Administration]]

Glossary

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

{{A2ZTOC}}

== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalized Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Leaders' responsibilities for record keeping

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The stake president oversees stake record keeping and approves all stake expenses and payments. Likewise, the bishop oversees ward record keeping and approves all ward expenses and payments. The stake president and bishop may assign their counselors and clerks to do much of the record-keeping work under their direction. (For more detail, see ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' [2010], 13.3.1, 13.4.1.)

== Stake president's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The stake president is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his stake.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Make sure each ward’s [[Membership Records|membership records]] are audited each year.
* Make sure each ward submits the [[Quarterly Report]] on time.
* Sign Melchizedek Priesthood [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordination certificates]] and make sure they are delivered.
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* Approve all stake [[Expenses|expenses]].
* Approve the stake budget.
* Make sure that the [[Financial Audit#Stake Audit Committee|stake audit committee]] is functioning and that financial audits are performed twice a year.
* Make sure each ward submits the annual [[Tithing settlement|Tithing Declaration Report]] on time.
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Oversee the preparation and submission of the stake [[Annual History]].
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Make sure each ward has worthy and competent priesthood holders serving as [[clerks]] and [[assistant ward clerk|assistant clerks]].
* Make sure stake and ward leaders fulfill their record-keeping responsibilities.
* Make sure records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]].
|}

== Bishop's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The bishop is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his ward.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Update and correct [[Membership Records|membership records]]
* Prepare and submit the [[Quarterly Report]]
* Prepare, sign, and deliver [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordinance certificates]]
* Correct problems identified in [[Membership Audit|membership record audits]]
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* Review and sign the [[Unit Financial Statement]] each month
* Process members’ [[Donations|donations]]
* Prepare the ward [[Budget allowance|budget]]
* Review [[Donor Records (MLS)|donation records]] with members
* Submit the annual [[Tithing settlement|Tithing Declaration Report]]
* Correct problems identified in [[Financial Audit|financial audits]]
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Assign a clerk to compile the [[Annual History|annual ward history]]
* Provide guidance and direction so the assignment can be completed
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Approve access rights in [[MLS]]
* Make sure Church records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[Clerks overview]]
* [[Stake clerk]]
* [[Ward clerk]]

[[Category:General]]
[[Category:Unit Administration]]
[[Category:Roles]]

Glossary

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : ''Obsolete''. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : Obsolete. See CUBS.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Official sources

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Clerks should rely on '''official sources''' for instructions regarding their callings. Claims in the LDSTech wiki will be more reliable if they are backed up by references to official sources.

== Printed documents ==
The Church handbooks used by leaders (as possibly amended or extended by subsequent letters from the First Presidency) are the authoritative source of policy and procedures for clerks. The handbooks are:
* ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops''; current edition is 2010.
* ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church''; current edition is 2010.

Occasionally the Church sends letters to stake presidents and bishops. These will sometimes amend or extend the policies in the Church handbooks. Such letters should be kept on file in each ward and stake until instructions are sent to destroy them (as often happens when new editions of the Church handbooks are released). Stake presidents also have access to an [[Official Communications|online repository]] of these letters in PDF format.

== MLS documents ==
The [[MLS]] help system contains procedural and policy instructions. It is accessible by pressing the F1 key, or by choosing Help from the Help menu. The sections titled "Membership Policies" and "Financial Policies" are particularly helpful.

The Record Keeping FAQ is available on the Help menu, under Frequently Asked Questions. This covers a wide variety of topics for Membership, Finance, Transmission, MLS Usage, and General Questions in a question and answer format.

Under Other Resources, Confidential Forms, you will find helpful forms such as those used for disciplinary action, application to the First Presidency, etc. The opening screen of that section of MLS has helpful instructions. The forms themselves also have useful instructions, which you can see by printing or previewing the forms.

Under Other Resources, Church Audits, you will find the [[Financial Audit|financial audit forms]] for stakes, wards, and family history centers. These audit forms contain detailed instructions about policies and procedures.

== Online training ==
The online [http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6074-1,00.html Record Keeping and Auditing Training] is available on lds.org under Serving in the Church, Melchizedek Priesthood, or at clerk.lds.org under Training. It is also available in MLS through the Help menu (assuming that it was properly installed according to instructions). The lessons may be downloaded for installation on Church administrative computers, or personal computers used for learning, training, and support. The downloaded version of the training lessons contains PDF documents containing the text of the lessons.

The online training has lessons targeted for:
* Stake Presidents
* Bishops
* Auditors and Audit Committee
* [[Stake Clerk|Stake]] and [[Ward Clerk|Ward]] Clerks
* [[Financial Clerk|Financial Clerks]]
* [[Membership Clerk|Membership Clerks]]
* [[Historical Specialist|Historical Specialists]]

In addition to training courses, the online training page contains helpful documents:
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Help_Manual.pdf MLS Software Manual]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/RecordKeepingFAQ.pdf Record Keeping FAQ]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Overview.pdf Overview of MLS]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Ward.pdf Using MLS: Ward and Branch Instructions]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Stake.pdf Using MLS: Stake and District Instructions]

== Online resources ==
Other documents can be found on the stake and ward web sites hosted on lds.org under Record Keeping Information. Note that you will only be able to access the Record Keeping Information if you are designated in the Leadership Directory section of the web site as some sort of clerk or priesthood leader. However, at present some of these documents are out of date, and several are located or linked to from the [http://clerk.lds.org Clerk and Technology Support] site. However, there are two helpful documents located on the stake and ward web sites:
* MLS Membership Supplement
* MLS Finance Supplement

The Clerk and Technology Support site at http://clerk.lds.org provides a wealth of information. It contains a repository of letters and policies relevant to clerks, troubleshooting guides, a calendar of important deadlines, Meetinghouse Internet instructions, and links to MLS Downloads, training lessons, and a [http://tech.lds.org/forum discussion forum].

The [[letters and policies archive]] on the Clerk Wiki is a collection of documents relevant to clerks.

The MLS site at http://mls.lds.org (login required, available from your [[Stake Technology Specialist]]) contains several documents under Local Unit Computer Instructions:
* Desktop 5.5 Instructions and related documents
* Information regarding serious C drive errors (documents the Backup/Restore capabilities of Desktop 5.5)
* Discontinued Unit Instructions (helpful summary of steps to follow as a unit is discontinued to deal with membership, financial, and computer issues)

Some forms and policy documents are available through http://www.ldscatalog.com using a unit login, under Unit Administration.

== Messages ==
Occasionally messages will be sent to clerks via the MLS messaging system, or via e-mail to [[Stake Clerk|stake clerks]] and [[Stake Technology Specialist]]. The e-mail communication will happen only if [[Callings#Special_Callings|callings have been set up properly]] on the [[LUWS]].

== See also ==
* [[Training]]

[[Category:General]]
[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement) This has been replaced by the Unit Financial Statement.

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit Financial Statement : the Unit Financial Statement has replaced the old Church Unit Financial Statement.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit financial statement : [[Media:Unit financial statement]] has replaced the old Church unit financial statement

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;Unit financial statement : [[Unit financial statement]] has replaced the old Church unit financial statement

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

;[[Unit financial statement]]

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church'', section [http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church/meetings-in-the-church 18] for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking Services
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 6 of ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See Handbook.

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;Handbook : The policy manual for administering the Church, consisting of two volumes: ''Handbook 1: Bishops and Stake Presidents'' and ''[http://lds.org/handbook/handbook-2-administering-the-church Handbook 2: Administering the Church]''.

;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;REFIS

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Leaders' responsibilities for record keeping

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The stake president oversees stake record keeping and approves all stake expenses and payments. Likewise, the bishop oversees ward record keeping and approves all ward expenses and payments. The stake president and bishop may assign their counselors and clerks to do much of the record-keeping work under their direction. (For more detail, see ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' [2010], 13.3.1, 13.4.1.)

== Stake president's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The stake president is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his stake.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Make sure each ward’s [[Membership Records|membership records]] are audited each year.
* Make sure each ward submits the [[Quarterly Report]] on time.
* Sign Melchizedek Priesthood [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordination certificates]] and make sure they are delivered.
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* Approve all stake [[Expenses|expenses]].
* Approve the stake budget.
* Make sure that the [[Financial Audit#Stake Audit Committee|stake audit committee]] is functioning and that financial audits are performed twice a year.
* Make sure each ward submits the annual Tithing Declaration Report on time.
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Oversee the preparation and submission of the stake [[Annual History]].
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Make sure each ward has worthy and competent priesthood holders serving as clerks and assistant clerks.
* Make sure stake and ward leaders fulfill their record-keeping responsibilities.
* Make sure records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]].
|}

== Bishop's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The bishop is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his ward.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Update and correct [[Membership Records|membership records]]
* Prepare and submit the [[Quarterly Report]]
* Prepare, sign, and deliver [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordinance certificates]]
* Correct problems identified in [[Membership Audit|membership record audits]]
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* [[Reconciliation|Reconcile]] the Unit Financial Statement
* Process members’ [[Donations|donations]]
* Prepare the ward budget
* Review [[Donor Records (MLS)|donation records]] with members
* Submit the annual Tithing Declaration Report
* Correct problems identified in [[Financial Audit|financial audits]]
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Assign a clerk to compile the [[Annual History|annual ward history]]
* Provide guidance and direction so the assignment can be completed
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Approve access rights in MLS
* Make sure Church records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[Clerks overview]]
* [[Stake clerk]]
* [[Ward clerk]]

[[Category:General]]
[[Category:Unit Administration]]
[[Category:Roles]]

Physical facilities representative

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The stake physical facilities representative (PFR) is a high councilor<ref>''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' [2010], 8.2.4</ref> assigned to interface with the local Facilities Management (FM) Group on all matters relating to the buildings. The PFR is responsible for the following:
* Ensuring standards for meetinghouse use and care
* Distributing and controlling [[building keys]]
* Training ward building representatives
* Completing annual meetinghouse inspections

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Roles]]

Physical facilities representative

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Smithgw:

The stake physical facilities representative (PFR) is a high councilor<ref>''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' [2006], 8.2.4</ref> assigned to interface with the local Facilities Management (FM) Group on all matters relating to the buildings. The PFR is responsible for the following:
* Ensuring standards for meetinghouse use and care
* Distributing and controlling [[building keys]]
* Training ward building representatives
* Completing annual meetinghouse inspections

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Roles]]

Official sources

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Clerks should rely on '''official sources''' for instructions regarding their callings. Claims in the LDSTech wiki will be more reliable if they are backed up by references to official sources.

== Printed documents ==
The Church handbooks used by leaders (as possibly amended or extended by subsequent letters from the First Presidency) are the authoritative source of policy and procedures for clerks. The handbooks are:
* ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops''; current edition is 2010.
* ''Handbook 2: Administering the Church''; current edition is 2010.

Occasionally the Church sends letters to stake presidents and bishops. These will sometimes amend or extend the policies in the Church handbooks. Such letters should be kept on file in each ward and stake until instructions are sent to destroy them (as often happens when new editions of the Church handbooks are released). Stake presidents also have access to an [[Official Communications|online repository]] of these letters in PDF format.

== MLS documents ==
The [[MLS]] help system contains procedural and policy instructions. It is accessible by pressing the F1 key, or by choosing Help from the Help menu. The sections titled "Membership Policies" and "Financial Policies" are particularly helpful.

The Record Keeping FAQ is available on the Help menu, under Frequently Asked Questions. This covers a wide variety of topics for Membership, Finance, Transmission, MLS Usage, and General Questions in a question and answer format.

Under Other Resources, Confidential Forms, you will find helpful forms such as those used for disciplinary action, application to the First Presidency, etc. The opening screen of that section of MLS has helpful instructions. The forms themselves also have useful instructions, which you can see by printing or previewing the forms.

Under Other Resources, Church Audits, you will find the [[Financial Audit|financial audit forms]] for stakes, wards, and family history centers. These audit forms contain detailed instructions about policies and procedures.

== Online training ==
The online [http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6074-1,00.html Record Keeping and Auditing Training] is available on lds.org under Serving in the Church, Melchizedek Priesthood, or at clerk.lds.org under Training. It is also available in MLS through the Help menu (assuming that it was properly installed according to instructions). The lessons may be downloaded for installation on Church administrative computers, or personal computers used for learning, training, and support. The downloaded version of the training lessons contains PDF documents containing the text of the lessons.

The online training has lessons targeted for:
* Stake Presidents
* Bishops
* Auditors and Audit Committee
* [[Stake Clerk|Stake]] and [[Ward Clerk|Ward]] Clerks
* [[Financial Clerk|Financial Clerks]]
* [[Membership Clerk|Membership Clerks]]
* [[Historical Specialist|Historical Specialists]]

In addition to training courses, the online training page contains helpful documents:
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Help_Manual.pdf MLS Software Manual]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/RecordKeepingFAQ.pdf Record Keeping FAQ]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/Reconciliation.pdf MLS Reconciliation Instructions]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Overview.pdf Overview of MLS]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Ward.pdf Using MLS: Ward and Branch Instructions]
* [http://www.lds.org/bfs/MLS_Stake.pdf Using MLS: Stake and District Instructions]

== Online resources ==
Other documents can be found on the stake and ward web sites hosted on lds.org under Record Keeping Information. Note that you will only be able to access the Record Keeping Information if you are designated in the Leadership Directory section of the web site as some sort of clerk or priesthood leader. However, at present some of these documents are out of date, and several are located or linked to from the [http://clerk.lds.org Clerk and Technology Support] site. However, there are two helpful documents located on the stake and ward web sites:
* MLS Membership Supplement
* MLS Finance Supplement

The Clerk and Technology Support site at http://clerk.lds.org provides a wealth of information. It contains a repository of letters and policies relevant to clerks, troubleshooting guides, a calendar of important deadlines, Meetinghouse Internet instructions, and links to MLS Downloads, training lessons, and a [http://tech.lds.org/forum discussion forum].

The [[letters and policies archive]] on the Clerk Wiki is a collection of documents relevant to clerks.

The MLS site at http://mls.lds.org (login required, available from your [[Stake Technology Specialist]]) contains several documents under Local Unit Computer Instructions:
* Desktop 5.5 Instructions and related documents
* Information regarding serious C drive errors (documents the Backup/Restore capabilities of Desktop 5.5)
* Discontinued Unit Instructions (helpful summary of steps to follow as a unit is discontinued to deal with membership, financial, and computer issues)

Some forms and policy documents are available through http://www.ldscatalog.com using a unit login, under Unit Administration.

== Messages ==
Occasionally messages will be sent to clerks via the MLS messaging system, or via e-mail to [[Stake Clerk|stake clerks]] and [[Stake Technology Specialist]]. The e-mail communication will happen only if [[Callings#Special_Callings|callings have been set up properly]] on the [[LUWS]].

== See also ==
* [[Training]]

[[Category:General]]
[[Category:Help]]

Leaders' responsibilities for record keeping

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The stake president oversees stake record keeping and approves all stake expenses and payments. Likewise, the bishop oversees ward record keeping and approves all ward expenses and payments. The stake president and bishop may assign their counselors and clerks to do much of the record-keeping work under their direction. (For more detail, see ''Handbook 1: Stake Presidents and Bishops'' [2010], 13.3.1, 13.4.1.)

== Stake president's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The stake president is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his stake.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Make sure each ward’s [[Membership Records|membership records]] are audited each year.
* Make sure each ward submits the [[Quarterly Report]] on time.
* Sign Melchizedek Priesthood [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordination certificates]] and make sure they are delivered.
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* Approve all stake [[Expenses|expenses]].
* Approve the stake budget.
* Make sure that the [[Financial Audit#Stake Audit Committee|stake audit committee]] is functioning and that financial audits are performed twice a year.
* Make sure each ward submits the annual Tithing Declaration Report on time.
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Oversee the preparation and submission of the stake [[Annual History]].
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Make sure each ward has worthy and competent priesthood holders serving as clerks and assistant clerks.
* Make sure stake and ward leaders fulfill their record-keeping responsibilities.
* Make sure records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]].
|}

== Bishop's responsibilities for record keeping ==
The bishop is ultimately responsible for all record keeping in his ward.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
|-
| '''[[Membership records]]''' ||
* Update and correct [[Membership Records|membership records]]
* Prepare and submit the [[Quarterly Report]]
* Prepare, sign, and deliver [[Ordinance and Ordination Certificates|ordinance certificates]]
* Correct problems identified in [[Membership Audit|membership record audits]]
|-
| '''[[Financial records]]''' ||
* [[Reconciliation|Reconcile]] the Church Unit Financial Statement
* Process members’ [[Donations|donations]]
* Prepare the ward budget
* Review [[Donor Records (MLS)|donation records]] with members
* Submit the annual Tithing Declaration Report
* Correct problems identified in [[Financial Audit|financial audits]]
|-
| '''[[Annual History|Historical records]]''' ||
* Assign a clerk to compile the [[Annual History|annual ward history]]
* Provide guidance and direction so the assignment can be completed
|-
| '''Other record-keeping responsibilities''' ||
* Approve access rights in MLS
* Make sure Church records are kept [[Confidentiality|confidential]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[Clerks overview]]
* [[Stake clerk]]
* [[Ward clerk]]

[[Category:General]]
[[Category:Unit Administration]]
[[Category:Roles]]

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Glossary

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{{stub}}
For additional terms unique to the Church, its culture, and its people, including those not associated with the clerk function, see [http://www.mormonterms.com Mormon Terms].

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; Sophos Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software currently used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards.

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus : An anti-virus software formerly used on Church-owned computers, such as those used in stakes and wards. All computers should now have the Sophos anti-virus software.

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop : A General Authority of the Church. The Presiding Bishop and his counselors serve under the direction of the First Presidency to administer the temporal affairs of the Church.

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format that is used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society : The women's organization of the Church, organized by Joseph Smith in 1842, dedicated to "the exercise of all benevolent purposes." The Relief Society provides Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service opportunities.

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance : A ceremony performed by the priesthood for a specific purpose. Examples are baptism/confirmation, ordination to the priesthood, and temple sealings. Some are saving ordinances and must be received by members in order to be saved, such as baptism/confirmation. Others may not necessarily be saving ordinances, such as a child blessing.

;Ordination : The bestowal of the priesthood and/or a priesthood office. For example, when a male member is ordained to the office of elder, he receives the Melchizedek Priesthood and is ordained to the office of elder within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Later in life, if he is ordained to the office of high priest, he does not receive the Melchizedek Priesthood again, but is ordained to the office of high priest within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Both examples are considered ordinations.

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office : A position in the priesthood (such as priest, elder, and high priest) that has attached to it certain duties, responsibilities, and rights.

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member : A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a person eight years old or older who has been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church.

;Membership : The state of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as evidenced by records kept at Church headquarters and in the local unit's MLS. Records are also created for children of members of the Church who are under eight years old; however, these children are not considered members until eight years old, when they are baptized and confirmed.

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch : Patriarch is an office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, and not a calling. A patriarch is recommended by the stake president, sustained in stake conference or stake priesthood meeting, and ordained by the First Presidency or one of the Twelve Apostles or (with written permission from the Twelve) the stake president. Patriarchs give personal blessings to members of the stake (see Patriarchal Blessing).

;Patriarchal Blessing : A blessing given to a member by the patriarch of his or her stake. After the member obtains a recommendation from the bishop, he or she is given a blessing in which the patriarch may give the member's lineage, list weaknesses and strengths, pronounce advice from the Lord concerning the member's future, and any other direction or guidance.

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive : A term not officially used in the Church any more. See '''Less Active'''.

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active : Participating in Church on an irregular basis, which may vary from coming to a few things a year to never coming at all. Members who attend meetings less than once a month are considered less active.

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors.

;Endowment : Instruction received in the temple pertaining to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors. Under the bishopric’s direction, the elders quorum president presides over the missionary work in the ward.

;Endowment

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software that is no longer used.

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two counselors. Under the bishopric’s direction, the elders quorum president presides over the missionary work in the ward.

;Endowment

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President : The elders quorum in a ward is presided over by an elders quorum president and two councilors. Under the bishopric’s direction, the elders quorum president presides over the missionary work in the ward.

;Endowment

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

[[Category:Help]]

Glossary

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Document
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President

;Endowment

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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== A ==
;Active : Participating on a regular basis, such as attending meetings, observing the principles of the gospel, and accepting Church callings; Under current Church policy, those who attend meetings at least once a month.

; AD - Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. AD (also known as EAD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.

; AF - Ancestral File
: A database containing family history information contributed by members of the Church and others from 1979 to 1999. The file contains millions of names linked in family groups and pedigrees. Ancestral File data may be accessed on FamilySearch.org.

;Agent Bishop : The Bishop responsible for a meetinghouse when that building has multiple wards.

; AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
: AJAX is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications. It exchanges small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change.

; API - Application Programming Interface
: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer library provides to support requests to be made of it by a computer program.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface Wikipedia Definition]

;Area : A geographical administrative region of many stakes and missions, usually including hundreds of thousands of members. Areas often cover many nations and are presided over by either a General Authority or an Area Authority Seventy.

;Area Presidency : A Presidency of general or regional leaders who preside over an area of the Church.

;Area President : A general or regional leader, a General Authority or Area Authority Seventy, who presides over an area of the Church.

; ASA
: Church-managed Cisco ASA 5505 firewall used for meetinghouse Internet connections.

; ASCII
: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard definition employing characters that can be read without conversion.

; ASE - Application Service Engineer

; ASP - Active Server Pages
: ASP is Microsoft's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Programming ASP Web sites is made easier by various built-in objects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Server_Pages Wikipedia Definition]

;Auxiliary Organizations : Organizations in a ward that do not include the priesthood quorums. These organizations include the Relief Society, Primary, Young Women, Young Men, and Sunday School.

== B ==
; B2B - Business-to-Business
: Business-to-business (or B2B for short) is a marketing strategy that involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses (as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, such as consumers or public administration).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2B Wikipedia Definition]

; B2C - Business-to-Consumer
: B2C (also business-to-customer) describes activities of commercial organization serving the end consumer with products and services.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2C Wikipedia Definition]

; B2E - Business-to-Employee
: B2E uses an intrabusiness network that allows companies to provide products and services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate business.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2E Wikipedia Definition]

;Baptism : The initiatory saving ordinance performed on those who have joined the Church or who have reached the age of eight, characterized by immersing the person completely in water. Baptisms therefore need to be recorded on Membership records.

; BEZ - Back End Zone
: All servers in the Provo Data Center have a "Front Door" and a "Back Door" interface. The "Back Door" interface is BEZ. BEZ is a flat network with all servers in the same IP subnet. Access to BEZ gives you access to all zones.

; BI - Business Intelligence
: BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and anlyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence Wikipedia Definition]

;Bishop : A priesthood leader responsible for the spiritual and temporal welfare of a ward. Bishops preside over most ward functions and activities, interview members of their wards for worthiness, call members of their ward to callings within the ward and oversee efforts to provide for ward members unable to provide for themselves.

;Block Schedule : A schedule of Sunday meetings that takes place in a three-hour period. The block schedule contains the sacrament meeting and Melchizedek Priesthood, Aaronic Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Women, Primary, and Sunday school meetings. See ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book I'' for timing and sequence of meetings.

; Blog - Web Log
: A blog is a Web site where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Wikipedia Definition]

; BO - BusinessObjects
: Enterprise software that is used for business intelligence.

; Born in the Covenant (BIC) : A child who is born in the covenant does not have to be sealed to the parents. A child whose parents were sealed to one another in the temple before the child was born is BIC. A child born after the mother's sealing to her husband is canceled is not BIC. A child born after one of the parents is excommunicated is not BIC.

;Branch : The smallest organized unit of the Church. A congregation not large enough to be made into a ward, or not in an area with enough members to make a stake.

;Branch Clerk : A priesthood leader responsible for the administrative functions of a branch; generally managing the membership and financial records of a branch.

;Branch President : The priesthood holder called and set apart to lead a branch.

;Bulletin : (a k a Ward Bulletin or Sacrament Meeting Program) The printed listing of planned prayers, talks and other sacrament meeting elements passed out at the beginning of each Sacrament Meeting in most LDS congregations.

== C ==
;CAB : Church Administration Building

;Calling : An office or assignment in the Church; An invitation to accept an office or assignment in the Church.

; CCN - Church Communications Network
: The Church's global network.

;[[CDOL]] : Church Directory of Organizations and Leaders

; CES - Church Educational System : The '''Church Educational System (CES)''' serves as the umbrella for all education programs of the Church, including Church-owned universities and colleges, institutes of religion, and seminary programs worldwide.

;CFAR : A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping in North America.

;CHI : Church Handbook of Instructions

;CHQ : Church Headquarters

;Church Handbook of Instructions : The policy manual the Church provides to Bishops and Stake Presidents

;Clerk : A priesthood holder responsible for tracking financial and membership information and maintaining the associated records.

;Clerk's Office : The room in an LDS meetinghouse or stake center that is used by the Clerks. The room where a unit's financial and membership transactions are made and the associated records are kept.

;COB : Church Office Building

;Confirmation : An ordinance performed after baptism whereby a person becomes a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This ordinance is performed under the direction of the bishop. One or more Melchizedek Priesthood holders place their hands on the person’s head and confirm them as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and use the wording “Receive the Holy Ghost.” May also pronounce a blessing as inspired by the Holy Ghost. Confirmation for eight-year-old [[members of record]] is performed at the baptism. Confirmation for converts is performed at a sacrament meeting on a Sunday following the baptism.

;Convert
: An individual nine years of age or older who is baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, or an eight-year-old whose parents are not members or are being baptized at the same time. Individuals under the age of eighteen must have the permission of both parents before being baptized.

; COTS - Commercial Off-the-Shelf
: COTS is a term for software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house development projects.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf Wikipedia Definition]

;Court : ''Obsolete''. See Disciplinary Council

; CRM - Customer Relationship Management
: CRM is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the catpure, storage, and analysis of customer information.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management Wikipedia Definition]

;CUBS - Church Unit Banking System
: Introduced in 2010, a worldwide back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping. Over time, all regions will transition from CFAR or LURBS to CUBS.

;CUFS : [[Church Unit Financial Statement]] (Bank Statement)

== D ==
;Disciplinary Council : A council of local leaders and other priesthood holders held to review the inappropriate behavior of a Church member and to decide on appropriate consequences. Councils may also be reconvened after a period of time to see if a member has repented sufficiently to be restored to full fellowship. See chapter 10 of ''Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics'' for details.

;District : A district is a smaller version of a stake, organized as the parent unit of branches instead of wards. A district may be organized when there are enough branches in an area to allow easy communication and convenient travel to district meetings. A district president presides over the district and reports to the mission presidency.

;District Clerk : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a district.

;District President : The district president presides over the district and is assisted by two counselors. The district president reports to and receives direction from the mission president.

; DIZ - Development Integration Zone

== E ==
; EAD - Enterprise Active Directory
: Active Directory is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments (also known as AD) stores information and settings relating to an organization in a central, organized, accessible database.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory Wikipedia Definition]

; EFD - Exploration Findings Decoument
: This document is used to identify possible solutions for a specific project.

;Elders Quorum : A quorum in the Church is a combination of a class, a fraternity of brethren, and a service organization. An elders quorum is a group of brethren in a ward consisting of up to 96 elders. After this number is reached, the quorum may be divided under direction of the stake president.

;Elders Quorum President

;Endowment

;Equalised Contribution : Refers to the support from the General Missionary Fund that results in each missionary serving from a specific country contributing the same amount irrespective of where in the world they serve.

;ERC : Employment Resource Center

; ERS - [http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,1962-1,00.html Employment Resource Services]

; EUP - End-User Productivity

== F ==
;Family History Center : A Family History Center is a branch facility of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contains staff to help patrons identify their ancestors through the use of computer programs and microfilms and microfiche that may be ordered from the Family History Library.

;Fast Offering : Fast offerings are funds freely given monthly by members of the Church to help the needy. As a general guideline members fast for two meals and contribute the cash equivalent of the cost of the two meals to the Church. The use of fast offerings is at the discretion of the bishop under the direction of the stake president.

; FCH - Family and Church History Department

;FHC : Family History Center

; FHL - [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp Family History Library]

;[[Financial Clerk]] : Person responsible for financial matters in the unit.

;FIS : Old DOS-based local unit financial software

;FM Group : Facilities Management Group

; FWIW - For What It's Worth

== G ==
;General Handbook of Instructions : ''Obsolete''. See Church Handbook of Instructions

;[[Geo code]] : A code used to group members into geographic areas, usually to analyze how a unit might be divided.

;GHI : General Handbook of Instructions. ''Obsolete''. See CHI

; GIDS - Global Identity Services
: Project to create LDS Sign-in.

; GIS - Geographic Information System
: A geographic information system (GIS) is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing, and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis Wikipedia Definition]

; GSD - Global Service Desk
: The GSD helps you resolve your computer-related questions and problems.

== H ==
;High Priests Group : The stake president presides over the stake quorum of high priests, made up of all the high priests in the stake. The quorum is divided at the ward level into individual high priests groups.

;High Priests Group Leader : The high priest group in a ward is presided over by a high priest group leader and two assistants. Under the bishopric’s direction, the high priests group leader coordinates temple and family history work in the ward.

;[[Annual History|Historical Specialist]] : Clerk responsible for preparing the [[Annual_History|annual historical reports]].

;Home Teacher : Home teachers are priesthood brethren who are assigned families at the ward level to visit monthly, to help and to strengthen. They are assigned by priesthood leaders.

;Home Teaching : Home teaching is the responsibility of all Melchizedek Priesthood holders and of those who are teachers and priests in the Aaronic Priesthood. As part of their responsibility to watch over the members of the Church, home teachers visit their assigned families at least once each month to teach and strengthen them.

== I ==
; ICS - Information and Communications Systems Department

; IGI - International Genealogical Index
: A list of names of deceased persons for whom temple ordinances have been performed. The most current version is available on the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Web site.

;Inactive

;Inactivity

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary]] : A form that contains most of the information on a [[Membership Records|Membership Record]] that can appropriately be given to a member.

;Investigator

;[[Individual Ordinance Summary|IOS]] : Individual Ordinance Summary

; IP - Internet Protocol
: An Internet protocol is a unique address that devices use to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet protocol standard (IP).
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address Wikipedia Definition]

== J ==
; JSMB - [http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/location/0,10634,1872-1-1-1,00.html Joseph Smith Memorial Building]

== K ==
; KB - KnowledgeBase
: A database of articles that help employees resolve issues.

== L ==
;Less Active

;[[Priesthood Line of Authority|Line of Authority]] : The chain of ordinations for a priesthood holder showing who ordained him to his current office, who ordained the ordainer, and so on back to Jesus Christ.

;LUAAT : Local Unit Area Auditor Trainer

;[[Budget Allowance|LUBA]] : Local Unit Budget Allowance

;LURBS : Local Unit Receipting, Reporting, and Banking System - A back office system used by administration offices for financial record-keeping outside of North America. It provides various reports for local units, including a [[Ward/Branch Monthly Financial Report|monthly financial report]].

;[[LUWS]] - [http://www.lds.org/units/ Local Unit Web Site]
: Official Church Web sites that are accessible by members, at the branch, ward, and stake level that contains information about those units. Local unit Web sites contain information about specific units.

== M ==
;Member

;Membership

;[[Membership Clerk]] : Person responsible for maintaining membership records on the members of a unit.

;[[Membership Records|Membership Record]]

;MIS : Old DOS-based local unit membership software

;[[MLS]] - Member and Leader Services (membership and financial software)
: MLS software is for use by unit leaders, clerks, auxiliary and quorum leaders, and secretaries at both the ward and stake levels. MLS is designed to make Church record-keeping easier and more efficient.

;MRN : Membership Record Number

;[[Administration office|MSR]] : Membership and Statistical Records Department - the Church department that is commonly known to clerks as the [[administration office]].

== N ==
;[[NQI]] : Non-quality item - a financial transaction that is not complete after 2 months.

; NOB - North Office Building
: The building that is directly north of the Church Office Building and was previously called the Data Center.

== O ==
;Office

;Ordinance

;Ordination

== P ==
; PAF - Personal Ancestral File
: A Church-produced computer software program that enables people to compile and organize their genealogy on their personal computers. PAF can help members identify ancestors and prepare their names for temple work.

;Patriarch

;Patriarchal Blessing

; PC - Personal Computer

; PDD - Project Definition Document

;PEC : Priesthood Executive Committee

;PEF : Perpetual Education Fund

;Perpetual Education Fund

;Personal Priesthood Interview : ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Physical Facilities Representative : A local priesthood holder responsible for the physical status of a meetinghouse.

;PI : Priesthood Interview

; PIX
: Church-managed Cisco PIX firewall used primarily for FHC Internet connections.

;PLT : Priesthood Leadership Travel

;PPI : Personal Priesthood Interview. ''Obsolete''. See Priesthood Interview

;Presiding Bishop

; PRF - Pedigree Resource File
: A file of lineage-linked data submitted by both members and nonmembers through the [http://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch</a> Web site. The master index is available online and the entire file is available on CD. The Pedigree Resource File is the successor to the Ancestral File.

;Priesthood Executive Committee

;Priesthood Interview : A private stewardship meeting between a priesthood leader and a person who reports to him

== Q ==
;[[Quarterly Report]] : A report of member attendance and other key statistics submitted by wards to the stake and the Church each quarter

== R ==
;Recommend

;Record

;Record Keeping

;Relief Society

;RS : Relief Society

; RSS - Really Simple Syndication
: RSS is a Web-feed format tha tis used to publish frequently updated digital content to consumers who use RSS aggregators to notify them of updates.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS Wikipedia Definition]

== S ==
; SAV - Symantec Anti-Virus

; SDK - Software Development Kit
: SDK is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, and more.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit Wikipedia Definition]

; SEO - Search Engine Optimization

; SERP - Search Engine Results Page

;Set Apart

;SFS : Stake Financial Summary (monthly summary report on all units)

; SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Wikipedia Definition]

; SORT
: An internal conference hosted by ICS for technical Church employees.

; SRD - Solutions Requirement Document
: The SRD is used to identify the business requirements and business case for a proposed technology project.

; SSH - Secure Shell
: SSH is a communication system that uses public-key cryptography to establish a secure connection between remote computers.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh Wikipedia Definition]

;Stake

;[[Stake Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a stake.

;Stake President : The stake president presides over the stake and is assisted by two counselors. The stake president reports to and receives direction from the presidency of the Seventy or from the Area President.

;[[Stake Technology Specialist]] : Person responsible for the technology assets of the stake and each ward in the stake.

;[[Statistical Clerk]] : Person responsible for collecting and preparing the [[Quarterly Report]].

== T ==
;Temple

;Temple Ordinances

;Temple Recommend

;Temporal

;Tithing

;Tithing Settlement

== U ==
;Unit : A congregation or other function in the Church that is responsible for its budget. Wards, Stakes, Branches, Districts, Family History Centers, etc., are all examples of Units.

== V ==
;Visiting Teacher

;Visiting Teaching

; VoIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
: The technology that allows voice communication (such as telephone) over a network instead of through traditional phone lines. The Church has deployed VoIP in several locations indlucing BYU, the North Office Building, the Triad Center, and Ghana.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip Wikipedia Definition]

; VPN - Virtual Private Network
: VPN is a private communications network often used within a company, or by several companies or organization, to communication confidentially over a publicly accessible network.
: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn Wikipedia Definition]

== W ==
;Ward

;Ward Budget

;[[Ward Clerk]] : Person responsible for all clerical activities in a ward.

;Ward Council

;Ward Welfare Committee

;Welfare

;Welfare Services

== Y ==
;Young Men

;Young Single Adults

;Young Women

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