Latter-day Saints all around the world can now see and hear Enrichment Series presentations created for employees of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
About once a month at the Church Office Building in downtown Salt Lake City, the human resources department coordinates a noontime enrichment presentation as a development opportunity for employees and service missionaries. The lectures usually last around 50 minutes. Topics range from decidedly Mormon themes (such as the new Church History Museum; the life of Brigham Young) to broader areas of interest (such as the firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor; the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth).
At the Website feeds.lds.org/enrichmentseries downloads of recent Enrichment Series meetings are available in both audio (mp3) and video (mp4) formats.
According to Marion Peery, an assistant in the learning and development side of Church Human Resources, the Enrichment Series has been ongoing for several years, with presentations generally occurring every month except June, July and December. She said that it's only been for the past year or two, though, that podcasting of the presentations has been available for Church employees on the Church intranet and, much more recently, anybody with an Internet connection.
"Having the podcasts on the Internet is great; that's been our goal, for everybody to have access to them," Sister Peery said. "We [originally] moved to the next level of communication, the podcast, because so many of the employees are not able to come into the building and see our programs.
A presentation by Shaun Stahle of the Church News and Dell Van Orden, former Church News editor, about the making of the Deseret News Church Almanac is scheduled for Nov. 20. Past lectures include the following:
