High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sunday School is an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). All members of the church and any interested nonmembers, age 12 and older, are encouraged to participate in Sunday School. Historical records indicate that some form of Sunday School was held by Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. However, the meetings were ad hoc and no formal organization endured the Mormon from Nauvoo. The first formal Sunday School in the LDS Church was held on December 9, 1849 in Salt Lake City under the direction of Richard Ballantyne, a former Sunday School teacher in the Relief Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Lacking a suitable building to hold the meeting in, Ballantyne invited his students into his own home; approximately thirty Latter-day Saint children between the ages of 8 and 13 attended. The local congregation that Ballantyne belonged to—the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward—quickly adopted Ballantyne's Sunday School program and integrated it with regular Sunday meetings.

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