Tagged with "Natural Disaster"
Emergency Lighting
Light sources are essential for any emergency preparedness plan . It is crucial to be able to see what you are doing and where you are going in an emergency. Children and individuals with special needs especially need light not just to see, but also to feel safe. It is nearly impossible to cook...
LDS Church Welfare's aims and purposes
An acquaintance recently recounted the story of a friend who spent a terror-filled evening on May 22 with her child in the bathtub in their home in Joplin, Mo., during the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1947. While the house around them was literally torn to shreds, they...
'Helping Hands' reach Joplin community
More than 550 Church members, clad in "Mormon Helping Hands" T-shirts, converged upon Joplin, Mo., May 28 — reaching out to the 27 Latter-day Saint families and others in the community whose homes were completely destroyed by a horrific tornado. In total, the group — comprised of members of...
LDS members in Joplin try to rebuild church, homes
The LDS bishop stood with the church at his feet — a place of peace left in pieces. Dave Richins surveyed the damage, pointing out where the stage once was and how the biggest beam in the building that was such a pain to get into the building was now resting in the parking lot. To the tornado...
Faith sustains LDS following tornado
After a devastating tornado swept away most of Joplin, Mo., resident members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are finding things to be grateful for. Carmen McIntyre Borup, mother of seven and a resident of Joplin, said she was driving home from a high school graduation ceremony...
Group rides out Joplin tornado inside LDS church building
Three days after an F5 tornado swept parts of Joplin, Mo., to ruins, residents there remain in shock and disbelief. One group rode out Sunday's devastating tornado in a Latter-day Saint stake center. Amazingly, all eight walked out alive. Janice Falls and Lee Allphin are two of those...
Washington Post: Where is God (and the Mormon church) in a natural disaster?
MR says: The author, Michael Otterson, is Head of Public Affairs for the Church. Years ago, in the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan made an offhand comment that for some reason has stuck in my mind for 30 years. He was visiting a cannery operated for the benefit of the needy and run mostly by volunteers. After...
Photos: Demolished LDS stake center in Joplin, Mo.
One woman from Joplin, Mo. recenlty posted photos of a demolished LDS stake center on her Facebook page. To view the photo gallery, click here . (You have to be logged into your Facebook account to view the gallery.) You can also read about it in "Mormon meetinghouse demolished by Joplin...
Midwest hit by deadly tornadoes, missionaries safe
A string of tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday. The hardest hit area was the city of Joplin, Missouri where the death toll is expected to rise. As many as one quarter of Joplin’s buildings have suffered significant damage including the Joplin stake center, which was destroyed. All...
2,500 Mormon Helping Hands offer relief to tornado victims
About 2,500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered for two days to help tornado ravaged victims from Tuscaloosa to Chattanooga last weekend. Volunteers donated more than 45,000 man-hours of work and filled more than 1,000 cleanup work orders. Emergency Management...
Church aid continues to help Japan disaster victims
"I have never seen anything like this!" These were the words of Elder Claudio R.M. Costa of the Presidency of the Seventy as he stood and looked at the destruction of the village of Onagawa on the northeast coast of Japan. He and Sister Margareth Costa traveled to the small town on May 9 as...
Fire in Alberta, Canada displaces members, missionaries
A forest fire has destroyed at least a third of the town of Slave Lake in northern Alberta, Canada. News reports indicate the gusting winds have calmed somewhat. The town’s 7,000 residents, including members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have been evacuated to...
Relief efforts by Christchurch New Zealand Stake
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched the new community initiative, "Lunches for Linwood," on May 10 to help feed high school students from Linwood College whose school has been shut down due to damages from the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the Canterbury region in New...
Tornado damage extensive: More than 3,000 volunteers get to work
MR says: Great photo gallery of the service. Over the past decade Ron Harmon, president of the Birmingham Alabama Stake, has traveled throughout the Southeastern United States on a half dozen occasions to join with fellow Mormon Helping Hands volunteers following weather disasters in the region. On the...
Mission president gives Alabama tornado relief update
MR says: This blog has dozens of great pictures of the relief effort. Jeni and I took Elder Bluth to the Bessemer Stake Center for an early morning Sacrament Meeting for the volunteer works who have been helping this past weekend on Sunday morning (May 8). Nearly 2000 Latter-day Saint volunteers arrived in...
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