home teaching

English

Etymology

home + teaching

Noun

home teaching (uncountable)

1. (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^[1], 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

1. present participle and gerund of home teach

References

• “Home Teaching”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎^[2], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2009, retrieved 2009