BYU Education Week administrator Bruce Payne on celebrating a century of spiritual and academic learning

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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With more than 16,000 participants, 900 classes and hundreds of volunteers, BYU Education Week celebrated its 100th anniversary in Provo, Utah, from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19. Beginning as Leadership Week in 1922, BYU Education Week continues to offer presentations and classes that seek to teach, strengthen, lift, motivate and encourage.

This year’s classes focused on the 2022 theme: “100 Years of Instruction and Learning: ‘Of Things Both in Heaven and in the Earth.’” Bruce Payne has worked in support of Education Week for 29 years — 24 as the program administrator — and joins this episode of the Church News podcast to talk about the history of Education Week. He offers his insight into planning, facilitating and learning from this century-old program. The podcast also highlights excerpts from the Education Week devotional address by Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.

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0:00.0	What I found running this program is that those who are coming with the spirit, those who are teaching are teaching with the spirit.
0:18.3	And when you get the two together, the dynamic is just amazing.
0:23.6	They're all interested. They're all receptive to the spirit. When that happens, it's just
0:30.6	people come away refreshed and feel like they have got instruction that is going to help them and bless them in their life.
0:43.6	I'm Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the church news.
0:46.5	Welcome to the church news podcast.
0:48.6	We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus
0:53.4	Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:59.1	With thousands of participants, 220 presenters, 500 volunteers, and hundreds of BYU
1:06.0	Education Week celebrated its 100th anniversary in Provo, Utah last week.
1:13.1	Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from around the world
1:16.6	converged on the BYU campus for the annual conference,
1:20.4	celebrating this year's theme,
1:22.5	a hundred years of instruction and learning of things both in heaven and in the earth.
1:27.8	Pivotal to the program's success for the past 29 years, 24 years as program administrator,
1:34.1	is Bruce Payne.
1:35.5	He joins this episode of the Church News podcast to offer his unique insight into the planning,
1:40.7	facilitating, and learning from this unique gathering of minds and souls. Welcome,
1:45.7	Bruce, to the Church News podcast. Thank you. I appreciate you having me join in. Well, this is
1:52.2	the 100th anniversary of Education Week. Can you share some of the highlights and the legacy of this
1:57.7	annual conference? Sure. The program started in January of 1922.
2:03.6	It was initially scheduled in the wintertime,
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