Top Ten Family Volunteer Tips
- Help build affordable housing for those in need
- Volunteer at a local pet shelter
- Surf the net for other opportunities
- Beautify a local park
- Spend quality time with the elderly
- Look in your attic or basement for old fans and AC units to donate
- Clean out your closets and donate your clothing
- Volunteer to help out at a local race
- Host a bake sale and donate proceeds to charity
- Donate cleaning supplies to a homeless shelter
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Adopting an Attitude of Unconditional Love
by Jordan Marie Williams
Latter-day Saint families are often known for their large rosters, but the Wilson family of Tucson, Arizona could possibly take the cake. In 1985 Karen Wilson became a nurse and started working with disabled children. Since then, she and her husband Larry have become foster parents of twenty-seven handicapped children (in addition to their three biological children), eventually adopting them over the years. Currently, twenty people live in the Wilson’s three-bedroom home. Read more >
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Funds for Flooded Families
Ordinarily, the Virgin and Santa Clara rivers in southern Utah are quite narrow, but due to tremendous rains and a melting snow pack in mid-January, these rivers gained devastating proportions, washing away entire homes and vast plots of land. Read more >
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Finding Hope for the Iraqi People
To many, the war in Iraq seems like it’s in another world, but to brave men and women who serve there, the reality is ever-present. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bramwell, a resident of Provo, Utah and a member of the Marine Corps reserves, is one such serviceman who spent several months in Iraq last year. Read more >
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Helping in Your Own Back Yard
Every year, the three wards of St. David, Arizona join together to celebrate the Relief Society’s birthday. This year the St. David Ward Relief Society president Susan Pollock was in charge of coming up with an activity for the three wards. Read more >
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National Recognition for an Extraordinary Mom
In April 2000, William Forrest, then Bishop of the Estate Groves ward in Mesa, Arizona, died in a car accident at age 47, leaving behind his wife and their seven children. Debbie Forrest said of their life together, "My husband and I had a wonderful, loving, synergistic marriage. Our values and goals were clear: our greatest desire was to raise children who were spiritually strong, capable, and contributing individuals. I believe that the strength that we have forged together as a family has survived his passing." Read more >
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Young in Spirit
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they begin to slow down and retire. For 101-year-old Mary Alice Hansen, that time hasn’t come. Read more >
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Offering Mobility and Freedom
"One thing that’s brought me joy is stepping out of myself and helping other people," said Julie Anne Springman, a BYU student from Danville, California, who not too long ago partnered with the Wheel Chair Foundation to raise funds to buy and deliver 280 wheelchairs to Lima, Peru. "It makes me happy and it makes life great." Read more >
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Making It In Business
by Bridget Rees
How does an LDS kid from Salt Lake City, without a college degree, go from an auto parts peddler to millionaire entrepreneur? According to Larry Miller, with a lot of hard work and a willingness to say it like it is. Read more >
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Project Uplift Renovates Lives
In Richmond, Virginia, abused and frightened women look to a YWCA shelter for refuge and escape. They lie down on old, worn mattresses, and look up at cracked paint peeling off the walls and ceiling. Read more >
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Giving the Gift of Sight
by Marcia Armstrong
For Troy Macdonald, a trip to Chile last August felt just like coming home. The twenty-nine-year-old general manager of LensCrafters in Idaho Falls traveled to the city of Antofagasta, at the base of the Andes Mountains, to distribute donated eyeglasses for the Give the Gift of Sight program. Troy was one of three hundred people to apply for the program through LensCrafters’s parent company, Luxottica. Read more >
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Music Straight from the Heart
For most members, their many callings can be counted up on fingers and toes (some people may even need to use their neighbor’s fingers and toes to help them count). Although Alta Osborn of Fairview, Utah, needs all her fingers for her calling, she only needs one finger to count up how she’s been diligently serving for over seventy-five years! Read more >
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A Present for a Prophet
On June 23, 2004, President Gordon B. Hinckley turned ninety-four years old. This same day he was among thirteen honorees receiving the nation’s most distinguished award for civil service, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "That’s a wonderful birthday present, isn’t it?" President Hinckley told reporters. Read more >
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Answering Prayers for a Brighter Future
"The Perpetual Education Fund is a blessing to our youth—For many of our young people it represents the fulfillment of their dreams, it helps them to enlarge their vision, to—achieve their potential in life." Read more >
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