Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, for the third annual JustServe night at the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball game on Thursday, April 9.
People participated in tailgate service projects before the game and 150 full-time missionaries in the Missouri Independence Mission sang the United States national anthem.
A JustServe award was presented to local nonprofit Kansas City Heroes, which uses JustServe volunteers as it supports people who are working to secure more permanent housing and health. In the service projects before the game, volunteers—including young Church service missionaries, local members, and friends—put bags together for Kansas City Heroes to distribute.
The JustServe platform is a free website and app provided by the Church that posts volunteer needs of organizations. More than 5,000 JustServe users are registered in Kansas City alone.
Elder G. Michael Ortiz, Area Seventy in the United States Central Area, threw the ceremonial first pitch before the game against the Chicago White Sox.
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