Official Registration of the Vlore Center for Young Adults‏

We just received the email from the Center for Young Adults Area Committee and we have our Vlore Center approved. This is the email from Germany sent to our District President with a copy to Sister Smith and I:

Dear President Kashari and Friends of the Vlore Center for Young Adults,

We are delighted to inform you that the Center for Young Adults Area Committee has approved your application for registration. That means the following things:

· You will receive a supplemental Center operating budget from the Area. Elder Josef Perle will contact you with further information.

· Your Facilities Management supervisor will also receive startup funds through the Area that will allow you to buy some basic things to make your Center more comfortable. Please contact the Facilities Management supervisor for your stake/district who will coordinate the costs to get that process underway.

· The Center only needs to file quarterly reports in the future, not monthly reports. That means we won't see your next report until the end of the current quarter (March, June, September, or December).

· You should prepare goals for most effectively using the Center to increase young single adult attendance at Institute classes as well as number of YSA convert baptisms, re-activations, mission calls extended to YSAs coming to the Center, and YSAs coming to the Center married in the temple.

Please be aware, if for some reason the Center’s performance falls below the qualifications for a new Center, you risk losing Area registration and supplemental funding. That would only happen following communication from our office and reasonable time to bring the Center into compliance with registration criteria.

We commend you for the wonderful efforts of all involved in developing this Center for Young Adults. We look for great things in the missionary and search and rescue areas with your young people ready to make friends and invite.

We encourage you to involve your Advisory Council in planning how to best use your Area supplemental funding. That is a great learning experience for the YSA Council presidency and allows them to have input into where the money goes. Remember, as stake or district president, you are the priesthood leader for the Center and you can happily counsel together as you work your way through the next few months.

We wish you well. We are sure you will continue to bless the lives of others as your Center grows. We are confident that your young people in the Center will mature into fine leaders in the Church as you work with them.

Sincerely,

Sister Janet Shumway, Member,

Center for Young Adults Area Committee