To me that’s the key in “ministering” instead of “administering”.

Unfortunately there are a lot of voices that focus on the lack of administrative weight of one group or another.

Adris, thanks for prompting such a terrific discussion. I think we’ll continue this at home…

Faithfully recording the minutes in Beehive Presidency Meeting.
Making a bulletin board/poster to share with other ward members the things your class has been doing.
Bearing your testimony.
Arranging with other class members a visit with a less active girl, including a personal invitation to an activity in the near future.
Sitting with the organist’s kids during sacrament meeting (because organist’s husband is in the bishopric).
Preparing a FHE lesson based on a conference talk.
Learning how to prepare and then giving a talk.
Comforting those that mourn.
Cleaning the toys in nursery.
Taking Red Cross Babysitter Training/First Aid course.
Participate in band/orchestra at school. Learn to play Primary songs in addition to the band music.
Play with enthusiasm and good sportsmanship on the ward volleyball team.

The first is how cautious we ought to be about what voices we listen to — even when I think I’ve been careful, I see that my thinking has been adversely conditioned by so many online discussions that assume that because we have few administrative roles in the church, girls and women have no real roles.

The second is that I needed a reminder — which both Paul and Coffinberry give eloquently — that routine acts can be acts of service, and I should be more conscious of those acts, both done and observed.

I think the value of the lesson and any others like it is to help recast our thinking onto how our daily tasks and mundane efforts are nothing less than building up the Kingdom of God.

I was just thinking that among the pioneers heading west, it seems like everything was in service to the group, even ‘behaving oneself’. Maybe I’m romanticizing it (and you’d know better than I), but that’s what it seems to me.