Fourth Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting The next Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting will be held Saturday February 11, and will bring together thousands of designated priesthood auxiliary leaders around the world for the international broadcast. The meeting will focus on The Family: A Proclamation to the World, and those attending the meeting are encouraged by the First Presidency to study the Proclamation in advance. Last year marked the 10-year anniversary of the Proclamation, first issued on September 23, 1995 and announced by President Gordon B. Hinckley in his first year leading the Church. “It was then and is now a clarion call to protect and strengthen families,” Elder M. Russell Ballard said in last October's general conference. “It warns against many of the very things that have threatened and undermined families during the last decade and calls for the priority and the emphasis families need if they are to survive in an environment that seems ever more toxic to traditional marriage and to parent-child relationships” (“What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest,” Ensign, Nov. 2005, 41). Previous addresses from worldwide leadership training meetings have included instruction on missionary service, serving as a bishop, auxiliary leadership, and the duties of a stake president and patriarch. The first meeting of its kind was held on January 11, 2003 to teach and train on a local level. During the first worldwide leadership meeting, President Hinckley emphasized the importance of uniform training: “We are all one Church, the Church of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. We should be performing our duty uniformly to bless the lives of all for whom we are responsible” (“Missionary Service,” First Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, Jan. 11, 2003, 21).