The Saints News

A Loving Gift For Departed Infants

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When the Relief Society Presidency of the Katy Texas Stake was planning their fall social, held in conjunction with the General Women’s Broadcast of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they turned to the JustServe.org site to find meaningful service opportunities.

Angel Gowns

They selected several projects from the following groups: For the Angel Gowns Foundation organization, they chose to create, from donated wedding gowns, little burial gowns for babies who pass away prior to, or shortly after, birth. For the kids at the Texas Children’s Hospital, they chose to make bright and cheerful pillowcases. And for Books Between Kids, they chose to collect gently-used books, to be given to children in the local area. Seven LDS congregations of women, in the Katy Texas Stake, were asked to find 10 volunteers for each of these service projects so that a total of 70 angel burial gowns, 70 pillowcases, and lots of books could be dropped off at the Women’s Broadcast on September 23rd, and then donated to their various JustServe.org organizations.

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To Serve The Many And The One

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Some people feel that to serve it must be on a grand scale. And in all honesty many lives were touched at Houston’s most recent Klein Stake Youth Conference, and not just for the residents and patrons of Acres Home Community – a large community center located in a challenged neighborhood north of Houston. Klein youth spent hours stripping paint, hanging doors, mowing, edging, weeding, chopping trees, painting, as well as hauling, collecting, and dumping trash. Among other things they fixed up homes, a cemetery, and a private church. It was group service on a very grand scale.

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Selfless Giving: The Universal Communication

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Washing-feetA few weeks ago, after dropping my eldest daughter off at the church for her early-morning Seminary class, I had the strongest feeling to stop at the grocery store to get a couple things I knew I needed, but would not have time to get later on that the day. As I walked out of the store into the parking lot, I was impressed with a nicely dressed woman with hair and make-up done at 6 a.m. when I had just rolled out of bed and thrown on shoes and a jacket over my pajamas! [Read more…]

Mormons Spend Annual Day Of Service At Houston Food Bank

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Mormon volunteers at the Houston Food Bank
Mormon volunteers at the Houston Food Bank

Six forty-five a.m. That was the time my local congregation met at the chapel to carpool to the Houston Food Bank Saturday, October 12th to join the rest of the Katy Stake for our annual Day of Service. Our shift began at 8 a.m. with nearly 500 volunteers ages 12 and up. [Read more…]