[2] Before 1983, Veazey was an executive minister to the Fremont, California, congregation and was in charge of a missionary development project funded by the World Church for San Francisco Bay Stake.

Veazey also served the church as a young adult two-year contractual minister to Pacific Northwest Region, in the Portland Metropole; director of youth camps and seminars; field associate for the Young Adult and Campus Ministries Office; presiding elder in McKenzie, Tennessee; and counselor to the pastor in Paris, Tennessee.

He cited the Hymns of the Saints as a source for this document, which clarifies the theology of scripture, the mission of the church, and other ecclesiastical matters in Community of Christ.

On April 14, 2010, Community of Christ voted to affirm the counsel as scripture, and it was added to the Doctrine and Covenants as section 164.

On January 18, 2024, following several meetings to consider two to three candidates each from a list shared anonymously by the church,[5] the Council of Twelve designated Stassi D. Cramm, a member of the First Presidency, as the next prophet-president-designate.