2023: The A in LGBTQIA

General

Session Description: An asexual person is a person who does not experience sexual attraction. Although this may seem like a simple definition, being asexual can be just as complex and confusing to navigate as same-sex attraction. Nikki, who is asexual and nonbinary,...

2023: Discovering Christ’s Perfecting Power in the Imperfect Space of Gender

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: When it comes to our personal identity, we’re all raised believing that we’re sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. What happens, however, when the cultural lines between sons and daughters blur thanks to gender incongruence or...

2023: Transform Your Ministry: Connecting Through and Understanding Gender Identity

Church Leader

Session Description: Are you having a difficult time understanding what it means to be transgender, non-binary, or intersex? Are gender dysphoria and gender incongruence new terms or experiences that you can’t relate to? The purpose of this breakout session is to...

2023: Called to Serve With Authenticity

Church Leader

Session Description: Having shared his experiences and insights as an openly gay missionary on both the Questions From the Closet and Listen, Learn, & Love podcasts, Shane shares how his leaders, companions, and local church members were essential in his reaching...

2024: Exaltation and the Single Latter-Day Saint

Gender Identity/Trans, Single, SSA Men, SSA Women, Stories, Stories: SSA Men, Stories: SSA Women, Young Single Adult (YSA)

Session Description: Many followers of Christ experience attractions or feelings that seem to complicate their path, often resulting in dissonance and loneliness. As the majority of saints are currently unwed, it’s common to question one’s place in the Plan of...

2024: Together We Help Build Faith in Each Other

SSA Women

Session Description: In this closed session for women with SSA, we will discuss how to increase our faith and relationship with our Heavenly Father, while building friendships and support among our North Star community. Target Demographic:CLOSED DOOR: SSA Women Closed...

2024: Faith to Move—or Climb—Our Mountains

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: Sometimes we need faith in Christ necessary to move mountains—and sometimes we need faith in Christ to climb them. Both require the same thing—power beyond our own. The good news is that God has promised to give that to us as we stay covenant...

2024: Straight People 101

Spouses of SSA Men, Spouses of SSA Women, SSA Men, SSA Women

Session Description: While it’s important for regular members of the Church to extend understanding and compassion to those of us who identify as LGBT or who experience same-sex attraction, we can also learn to do the same. In this session, we will cover some of the...