Tagged with "Church Welfare"
Church dedicates new Bishops' Central Storehouse
Elder Douglas F. Higham of the Seventy presided at the dedication of a new Bishops' Central Storehouse in Mira Loma, Calif. Located in Southern California, the new 98,000-square-foot facility will supply bishops' storehouses throughout California, Nevada and Hawaii and, in times of emergency, stand...
Meet the Preppers... and the Mormons (Part 1)
MR says: A feature on a member who runs a Bishop's Storehouse. In this week's cover story about survivalists, I speak with a man who identifies himself only as "Bowreeguard," who hails from hard-granite New Hampshire and says that prepping was a way of life for his family when he was growing up. The...
LDS Church pilot program for construction in Congo
Here in Kinshasa the church is doing a new pilot program for developing nations. It's the first one of its kind and is probably the last big thing done by Bishop Burton before he was released. He was very anxious about the lack of employment in the Congo and this was the idea that they came up with...
Building hope: How the LDS Church is helping thousands fleeing war and drought
MR says: I love hearing stories about the Church Welfare System. Read this - it's good. Not far from Somalia on a barren, windswept plain, a girl named Amina gathers firewood in the fading light of late afternoon. She is slightly built, with a long, delicate neck and thin, bony arms. The cheap Casio watch...
Salt Lake City storehouse at top of Mormon food chain
At the new Utah Bishops’ Central Storehouse, pallets loaded with food wait to be ferried to locales near and far, their destinations handwritten in black marker on plastic wrap covers: Lindon, Ely, Mesa, San Diego, St. George. Richard Humphries, storehouse manager, stops a golf cart next to one...
Mormons across globe reach out to those in need
During the era of the economic upheaval known as the Great Depression, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) announced the formation of an innovative welfare program. In a 1936 Churchwide address, the “primary purpose [of the program] was to set up a system … where...
Mormon volunteerism highlighted in new study
MR says: The Church created another really cool infographic. Click on the forwarding link to see the whole picture. As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) continues to receive heightened media attention, a new study focuses on the generous charitable donations and volunteerism of active...
Latter-day Saints in New Zealand Help Collect Books for Fijian Students
Representatives of the Church in New Zealand recently delivered nearly 43,000 books to Fiji’s Ministry of Education for distribution to students living in rural areas and outer islands—some of whom have grown up without reading or owning a book. The effort was a response to a call from...
Mormon Media Observer: Two articles for which to be grateful
In my opinion, thanks should go to Naomi Schaefer Riley, a vital writer whose work is frequently published in the Wall Street Journal. During the 2007-2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, she wrote one of the most favorable articles about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that...
Wall Street Journal writer discusses Mormon welfare system
If presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to find a welfare system that "lets almost no one fall through the cracks while at the same time ensuring that its beneficiaries don't become lifelong dependents, he could look to his own church." That's the opinion of former Wall Street Journal...
Reader Voices: LDS Church's welfare plan was pattern in a 1930s Virginia community
One of the best things about living in a historic house is learning about the generations of its former inhabitants. Our Virginia home, part of which dates to the Colonial era, is rich in history; but we've learned of a connection with the Welfare Program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
President Uchtdorf dedicates new Bishops’ Central Storehouse
MR says: “God is in His heavens, but He asks that we, His disciples on earth, serve as His hands.” —President Dieter F. Uchtdorf President Dieter F. Uchtdorf dedicated a new 570,000-square-foot Bishops’ Central Storehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on Thursday, January 26, 2012. Bishop H. David...
Deseret Industries volunteer finds thousands of dollars stuffed in a shoe
MR says: What a good guy for turning in the money. A volunteer at Deseret Industries made a surprising discovery while organizing the shoe section in the store. He found several thousand dollars stuffed in a shoe. Steffen Bronson works at times sorting through donated items and other times he's going...
Serving others at bishops' storehouse in Georgia
On Jan. 16, youth in the Atlanta, Ga., area were off from school and adults were off work in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day. Many Latter-day Saints chose to spend the day serving at the bishops' storehouse in Tucker. There were more volunteers than work to be done, so more work had to be...
Mormon church is large landowner in Florida
MR says: The LDS Church owns huge ranches and farms in Florida (did you know that?). Florida's Mormon population is small, but The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a large footprint in the state. Through several corporate subsidiaries, the Mormon church is Florida's sixth-largest private...
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