home teaching

English

Etymology

home + teaching

Noun

home teaching (uncountable)

(Mormonism) The responsibility of the priesthood in which a pair of priesthood holders visit another member's family to teach them LDS doctrine and see how they are doing.
- 1994 May, Robert D. Armstrong, “My Very Senior Companion”, in New Era‎, retrieved April 26, 2009, page 46:
  When it came time for me to be ordained a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood, I told the bishop I would accept a home teaching assignment.

Synonyms

block teaching
ward teaching

Translations

a priesthood responsibility

Finnish: kotiopetus (fi)
Spanish: orientación familiar f

Verb

home teaching

present participle and gerund of home teach

References

“Home Teaching”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2009, retrieved April 26, 2009

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