"When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are in the service of your God."
-Mosiah 2:17
"Humanitarian Services of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strengthens families worldwide by providing much-needed assistance to meet basic health needs, increase economic productivity, improve clean water and sanitation, increase food production, and provide emergency response to disasters.
For each activity, people are prepared to provide for themselves long after service is rendered. This service is given without regard to race, religion, or ethnic origin."
If you didn't see the post before this one, this is where this "discussion" is stemming from:
Humanitarian Efforts
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-Mosiah 2:17
"Humanitarian Services of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strengthens families worldwide by providing much-needed assistance to meet basic health needs, increase economic productivity, improve clean water and sanitation, increase food production, and provide emergency response to disasters.
For each activity, people are prepared to provide for themselves long after service is rendered. This service is given without regard to race, religion, or ethnic origin."
If you didn't see the post before this one, this is where this "discussion" is stemming from:
Humanitarian Efforts
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Each of us has the opportunity to help, to reach out, to give a lending hand to not only in nations that really need ~ but to our next door neighbor who needs a friend, who needs some help with their yard or other needs, to the young woman at the grocery check-out who doesn't have enough money to pay for her groceries...
We can walk as Jesus walked as he set the example for us. We can do what we can to help those around us. We can seek out other opportunities to enhance the world, that has been given to us, in so many capacities we can all give.
Currently, our ward is doing many humanitarian projects that are going to 3rd world countries. The one that I have been helping with is painting fabric pieces, that someone else drew a picture on. Then it goes to someone else who sews fabric around it and makes it into a wall hanging. These will be going to various places for the orphanages, for the kids, who don't have any color to look at, for the kids that are going blind because there is no color in their life. It breaks my heart, but at the same time I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to put forth a good cause for these little babies and kids.
In our church, the woman have the opportunity to do Visiting Teaching & the men, Home Teaching. What a great opportunity this for a each ward family, to become friends, to learn and grow in all the areas of your life, what a great example of service to our children, or the opportunity to lift another in their grief, in a trial they may be going through - lifting a burden for someone else. Encouragement in life is a blessing, and when I have ever had visiting teachers and home teachers, they have been a blessing, they have been welcomed in, they have been a guiding light. And for my own opportunity to go do Visiting Teaching as well, blesses me both ways - being visited and visiting. It is what a caring ward family is all about. It isn't just about a duty, or a checklist to visit someone, it is about truly caring for an individual and being their friend, going the extra mile. Here is a YouTube video of what is humorous in the beginning - but in the end shows what a true Visiting Teacher is, what you can do for others.
Home teaching is where the men go to the families, see how they are doing, assess their needs, see what they can do to help and then extend some thoughts from the Ensign (an LDS magazine) , from the scriptures, or their testimony, as well as leaving a blessing (prayer) in their home. How wonderful it is to have home teachers, for the opportunity that my husband has to go home teach others as well.
We can walk as Jesus walked as he set the example for us. We can do what we can to help those around us. We can seek out other opportunities to enhance the world, that has been given to us, in so many capacities we can all give.
Currently, our ward is doing many humanitarian projects that are going to 3rd world countries. The one that I have been helping with is painting fabric pieces, that someone else drew a picture on. Then it goes to someone else who sews fabric around it and makes it into a wall hanging. These will be going to various places for the orphanages, for the kids, who don't have any color to look at, for the kids that are going blind because there is no color in their life. It breaks my heart, but at the same time I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to put forth a good cause for these little babies and kids.
In our church, the woman have the opportunity to do Visiting Teaching & the men, Home Teaching. What a great opportunity this for a each ward family, to become friends, to learn and grow in all the areas of your life, what a great example of service to our children, or the opportunity to lift another in their grief, in a trial they may be going through - lifting a burden for someone else. Encouragement in life is a blessing, and when I have ever had visiting teachers and home teachers, they have been a blessing, they have been welcomed in, they have been a guiding light. And for my own opportunity to go do Visiting Teaching as well, blesses me both ways - being visited and visiting. It is what a caring ward family is all about. It isn't just about a duty, or a checklist to visit someone, it is about truly caring for an individual and being their friend, going the extra mile. Here is a YouTube video of what is humorous in the beginning - but in the end shows what a true Visiting Teacher is, what you can do for others.
Home teaching is where the men go to the families, see how they are doing, assess their needs, see what they can do to help and then extend some thoughts from the Ensign (an LDS magazine) , from the scriptures, or their testimony, as well as leaving a blessing (prayer) in their home. How wonderful it is to have home teachers, for the opportunity that my husband has to go home teach others as well.
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