The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an implementation guide for Sunday class meeting schedule changes that begin on Sept. 6, 2026, giving members and leaders a detailed road map for the shift. The guide lays out how wards will move into a new rhythm of one-hour sacrament meeting, 25-minute Sunday School and 25-minute Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women and Aaronic Priesthood quorum meetings.
It also introduces a new youth curriculum tied to an updated For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices. Church leaders have framed the change as a reset in weekly worship, writing in the guide that it is “more than a schedule change; it is an invitation to joyful, Christ-centered worship—renewing our home-centered, Church-supported pattern and strengthening covenant belonging.”
The practical details matter because the transition will not hit every group in the same way at the same time. Adults and youth will move into the shortened class blocks, but Primary will keep its normal 55-minute schedule. That means families with children and teenagers will be tracking more than one timetable on the same Sunday, at least at first.
The First Presidency announced the changes on March 30, 2026, and the Church’s Priesthood and Family department followed with a letter on Thursday, June 11, to ward and stake leaders saying an implementation guide was available to help members and leaders prepare. The guide is meant to make the weeks before the change more predictable, especially in congregations that will have to line up teachers, leaders and lesson material around the new block structure.
Church members will start seeing the change before Sept. 6. On Sunday, Aug. 30, youth, including Primary children who will turn 12 in 2027, their parents and youth leaders will discuss section 3 of the guide and learn more about the new curriculum and how to use the For the Strength of Youth guide and magazine. Adults will attend a 5th Sunday meeting that day, while Primary follows its normal schedule.
When the new schedule begins on Sept. 6, youth and adults will attend 25-minute Sunday School classes and view the videos Sunday School and The Sabbath and Sacrament Meeting. After those videos, they will discuss sections 1, 2 and 4 of the implementation guide. During the 25-minute Relief Society and elders quorum meetings, adults will watch Relief Society and Elders Quorums and then discuss section 5 of the guide. Youth will begin using the new curriculum that same day.
Primary will again keep its regular schedule, and the Church has said the 55-minute block remains in place for those children. The difference in timing means the change is not a single universal swap across all Sunday programs, but a staggered adjustment with separate instructions for youth, adults and Primary.
The guide is available in a long list of languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Ukrainian. For other languages, members and leaders are told to follow the instructions in the guide and a notice sent to local Church leaders on June 25, 2025, leaving open the question of how some congregations will receive the same level of implementation detail before the September start.
Instructional videos and other resources are due during the first week of August on. That next step will be the clearest test of how quickly local leaders can turn a global schedule change into something wards can actually follow on the first Sunday in September.
