The agent stake operating committee helps to arrange and coordinate the donated labor needed by the operation.

Annual welfare assignments. Each year, the welfare operations managers estimate the hours of donated labor and numbers of Church-service missionaries needed to run each welfare operation. The managers then submit these estimates through the agent stake operating committee to the associated Church-service missionary (CSM) coordinating couple. The CSM will equitably allocate the assignments among stakes in the coordinating council(s). Once accepted by the stakes, the approved assignments are returned to the operations manager and agent stake operating committee. The agent stake operating committee helps to coordinate and monitor fulfillment of the assignments.

Sources of donated labor. Donated labor in a welfare operation may come from people called as full-time missionaries, Church-service (part-time) missionaries, or volunteers. Agent stakes are encouraged to support the annual missionary and labor allocation process in areas where that process is being used. Where it is not, agent stakes may draw upon their own membership to full these assignments and may also look to other stakes served by the operation to provide needed labor.

Church-service missionary coordinating couples. Agent stake presidents responsible for Church-service missionary work call Church-service missionary (CSM) coordinating couples to help coordinate Church-service missionary calls for regional family history centers, welfare operations, physical facilities, seminaries and institutes, distribution centers, and others. In those areas where the allocation process has been implemented (currently Utah and North America Southwest areas), the CSM couples also assist in coordinating donated labor assignments.