This tool walks the bishopric through the same exercise the prophets have asked of every gathering of Saints: to see clearly what God is building, to receive it together in council, and to carry it back to the people with one voice.
It is not meant to be filled out quickly. Read each section. Pray over each section. Some screens may take a single evening. Others may take a month of councils. Your work is saved automatically as you go, on this device.
There are four parts: Foundational Purpose, the Painted Picture of May 2029, the Vision Energizer, and a 90-day rollout plan. A review and print view will be available at the end.
Used to label your saved draft files. Stored only on this device.
Save your progress any time. When your draft is complete, the Send to Bishop button is on the final review screen.
Why has the Lord gathered this people, here, now? Before drafting a vision, the bishopric must agree on the deeper purpose. Answer these in council, with scriptures open, without hurry.
Why has the Lord drawn these particular families to Rocky Ridge?
Write what the Spirit has confirmed, even if it has not yet been said out loud.
If a faithful Saint asked, "What are you trying to become here?" — what is the plain answer?
What kind of men, women, fathers, mothers, youth, and children are we trying to send out of this place?
A consecrated brother at Rocky Ridge — what does he actually look like, sound like, do?
A consecrated sister at Rocky Ridge — what does she actually look like, sound like, do?
Our youth at eighteen — what should they have read, served, learned, and become?
Our children — what do we want raised in our streets and fields?
What has the Lord placed in our hands that He has not placed in anyone else's?
What problems are we trying to solve — spiritually, relationally, economically, culturally?
Name them plainly. Where is private worship thin? Where is contention smoldering? Where is wealth hoarded or poverty hidden? What patterns of Babylon have we not yet repented of?
What is at stake if we do not build this intentionally?
In our generation. In our children's. In the land, the water, the priesthood order.
"It is May 2029, and the Rocky Ridge United Order has become..." Walk through twelve categories. A short model is given for each. Rewrite it in the bishopric's own voice. Be specific. A vision that cannot name what a Tuesday morning looks like is not yet a vision.
The next twelve screens each address one category. Take them at the bishopric's pace. Drafts are saved as you go.
The Painted Picture is the vision. The Energizer is the rhythm that keeps it alive — in monthly councils, in stewardship interviews, in the conversations the bishopric has with heads of households.
This section helps the bishopric distill the picture into a short, repeatable form, and choose the questions you will actually ask.
A version short enough to share on a porch, in a sacrament talk, or at the start of a council. No jargon. No slides. The kind of thing a Saint will remember a week later.
Write the spoken version of the vision.
Two or three short paragraphs. Plain language. Begin with "We are trying to build..."
Distill the picture into 5–7 phrases the bishopric can carry in memory. Each pillar should be a short phrase, then a one-line description.
Starter pillars below — rewrite freely. Leave a pillar blank to drop it.
These will close every monthly bishopric council. They should be specific enough that the bishopric cannot answer them without naming families.
Are there other questions specific to Rocky Ridge the bishopric wants to add?
Asked in reverence, not interrogation. These replace surface check-ins with the conversations a bishopric ought to be having.
What will we ask the youth, when we sit with them?
Default questions: What is the Lord teaching you right now? What are you preparing for? Where do you see Zion becoming real here? Where do you see us falling short?
The bishopric watches for these quietly. When two or more appear together, the council fasts and counsels before acting.
What other signs of drift, particular to Rocky Ridge, will the bishopric watch for?
Every monthly council closes with five minutes of reflection — no editing — answering four questions. If the council cannot name these four, the council is not yet finished.
→ One thing we saw that shows the vision is becoming real.
→ One thing we saw that shows the vision is drifting.
→ One name the Lord has put on our minds this month.
→ One thing we will not put off another month.
And every council names four next steps before adjourning:
The goal of the first 90 days is not to publish the vision. The goal is for the bishopric to become the vision before asking anyone else to receive it.
Who will lead the bishopric through each week? Set names and dates.
Which leaders and families will be invited first?
What will be said to the people, and when?
Read it together. Mark what needs revision. Print or save as PDF for the council binder.
"The Lord does not ask the bishopric to build Zion in 90 days. He asks them to be faithful in a small place, with a few families, in a known season."
— A closing word from the working document