The hours and hours of planning and preparation for our big orientation meeting with all ward volunteer coordinators came to fruition tonight with over 160 coming to the VC for our presentation. Theirs is the big job of organizing 70 to 100 volunteers for each shift. There will be three shifts per day: 7:30 - 12:00; 11:30 - 4:00; 3:30 to 8:30. Each stake has two or three days to cover. Our job is to coordinate all the ushers, tour guides and sister missionaries (about 50 per shift). Yours truly took the lead in developing the PowerPoint presentation for the training, along with creating a number of Roster forms. In addition to the VC sister missionaries helping introduce each tour group and helping in the reception tent, we are recruiting 45+ former sister missionaries who are now BYUH students to supplement the full-time sisters. The pictures show some of the attendees and Dean Ellis, chairman of the Usher Committee. Dean is married to Lisa Bahen, both from our generation in Escondido. Dean also serves as a bishop of a student ward at BYUH. He does a great job leading our committee.
