Humanitarian Services – First Presidency Appeals to Church Members to Help People in Haiti
•The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides relief and development projects for humanitarian purposes in countries all over the world. Projects operate without regard to the nationality or religion of the recipients.
•Humanitarian service may include emergency response to natural disasters, such as an earthquake or a tsunami, or man-made disasters, such as the effects of war and famine. It may also be part of a longer-term effort to meet serious and more entrenched human needs, such as the need to alleviate disease.
•Within hours of a disaster, the LDS Church works with local government officials to determine what supplies and food are needed. Materials are then immediately sent to the area.
•After urgent needs are met, the LDS Church looks for additional ways to help with the long-term needs of the community. The LDS Church’s approach is to help people become self-reliant by teaching skills and providing resources for a self-sustained life.
•Donations, principally from LDS Church members but also from people around the world, are used to make relief projects possible. One hundred percent of the donations given to the LDS Church’s humanitarian services are used for relief efforts. The LDS Church absorbs its own overhead costs.
•The humanitarian services arm of the LDS Church sponsors five ongoing global projects to help people become more self-reliant. Initiatives include neonatal resuscitation training, clean water projects, wheelchair distribution, vision treatment and measles vaccinations
First Presidency Appeals to Church Members to Help People in Haiti –
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints appeals to the worldwide membership of the Church to help relieve the suffering in Haiti.
Despite Challenges, LDS Church Aid is reaching the needy. More is on the way.
The devastating earthquake in Haiti has shattered millions of lives, but the relief efforts and outpouring of support by organizations and individuals worldwide offer hope. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been working diligently since the disaster to provide aid to the people of Haiti through its humanitarian aid program. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of relief supplies have arrived already, and more are being shipped.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Islamic Relief USA have partnered to send urgently needed food and medical supplies to aid those impacted by the earthquake in Haiti. Shipments of relief aid from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have arrived in Haiti, including a large shipment of 85,000 pounds of supplies from Miami. That shipment included emergency resources such as food, blankets, tents and tarps. Latter-day Saint missionaries assisted in unloading the supplies. LDS doctors set up a temporary medical center in a Church meetinghouse in Port-au-Prince. The meetinghouse is largely undamaged by the quake.
Efforts are underway to determine further humanitarian response in coordination with government and disaster relief organizations. Donations for relief efforts can be made at http://give.lds.org/emergencyresponse.
Temples and Temple Dedications:
Two temple dedications are among the many highlights for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during 2009. In March, President Thomas S. Monson, world leader of the 13.5 million-member church, dedicated the Draper Utah Temple. In August he dedicated the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple, the 130th temple of the Church and the 13th temple in Utah. Prior to the dedications, nearly 1.3 million people toured the temples during eight weeks of open houses.
– A new temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to be built in Payson, Utah.
The new temple will help meet the needs of a growing Church membership in the area and will ease the heavy use of the Provo temple, which is one of the busiest in the Church. The Payson temple will bring to 15 the number of operating and announced temples in Utah.
Dedication and Open House Dates Announced for the Cebu City Philippines Temple
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced a public open house prior to the dedication of the Cebu City Philippines Temple. The public will be invited to visit the temple beginning on Thursday, 21 May 2010, and continuing through Saturday, 5 June 2010, excluding Sundays.
The Perpetual Education Fund
The Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has helped over 40,000 men and women throughout the world receive education, training and employment opportunities to better their lives and the lives of their families.
The Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) was established in 2001 to help young men and women get a good education and become self-reliant after serving a mission for the Church. It is a revolving resource in which money is loaned to an individual to help pay for advanced education or training.
Latter-day Saint Youth Given New Church Website
Teenage members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have some helpful new resources available to them as they strive to live the standards of their faith. The LDS Church has created youth.lds.org, a new Web site that uses multimedia and social networking to provide young Latter-day Saints with answers to their questions about faith and morality in today’s world.
www.lds.org
Submitted By;
Karen Aspen
