Panaca 2nd Ward Community Service Night
July 6, 2011
Time: 5-9 pm
Meet at the Church parking lot!
Bring hoes, shovels, rakes, gloves, water bottles, weed eaters.
We were asked in our last general conference to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Church Welfare Program by participating in service throughout the year....as we have tried to come up with areas for our ward members and sisters to serve in, we decided that there were many around town in need of help in their yards, and chose to try a mid-week evening instead of a weekend when many are gone. We hope you can make it, but if you cannot, don't feel bad, we are working on more opportunities for service to come!!
Let us serve with open hearts, and remember what we have been counselled:
Seventy-five years ago a system devoted to the spiritual and temporal salvation of mankind rose from humble beginnings. Since that time it has ennobled and blessed the lives of tens of millions of people throughout the world. The prophetic welfare plan is not merely an interesting footnote in the history of the Church. The principles upon which it is based define who we are as a people. It is the essence of who we are as individual disciples of our Savior and Exemplar, Jesus the Christ.
The work of caring for one another and being “kind to the poor” is a sanctifying work, commanded of the Father and divinely designed to bless, refine, and exalt His children. May we follow the Savior’s counsel to the certain lawyer in the parable of the good Samaritan: “Go, and do thou likewise.”
--Presiding Bishop H. David Burton
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