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Mormon Helping Hands Assist in Maryland Park Cleanup (Photo Essay)
Approximately 300 Mormon Helping Hands volunteers joined community members and elected officials to clean up Parkville, Maryland's Double Rock Park on 12 May. The photo essay at the link below shows these volunteers in action.
Church Honored in Spain for Blood Drive Promotion
The Spanish Federation of Blood Donors in Spain is honoring The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) for its positive contribution to improve people’s lives through the donation of blood. This is the second time the Church has been awarded the National Merit in Blood Donation for...
LDS Church to participate in San Jose interfaith blood drive, Valley Catholic Online reports
Our take: This article is an informative advance for the Interfaith Community Blood Drive in July. From the Valley Catholic Online: Parishioners across the Diocese of San Jose, Calif., will roll up their sleeves during the month of July to give blood at one of seven parish collection sites during...
Houston judge praises Church
Hurricane season keeps residents and Church members in the Gulf Coast on their toes from June to November each year. While many worked to provide aid for those in need during past hurricanes, much of the relief came from the Church. After Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, the Church delivered 4.9...
LDS volunteers work with other faiths to serve
Service is an integral part of what The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does. Recent news has highlighted several service projects in which LDS members have teamed with members of other faiths to help less-fortunate people.
Mormon volunteers help Mission Viejo bloom
About 350 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) arrived at Oso Viejo Park, behind the Norman P. Murray Center at 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, with shovels in hand wearing the familiar Mormon Helping Hands yellow vests, to participate in the annual Mormon...
Grief leads to service at Mormon Helping Hands project
A total of 277 Mormon Helping Hands volunteers, each sporting a bright yellow vest, worked at the El Toro Cemetery in the Orange County, California city of Lake Forest. The Santa Margarita California Stake members were part of the 70,000 volunteers participating at the event sponsored by The...
Mormon Helping Hands: Fix Up, Clean Up, Build It in California and Hawaii
Thousands of Mormon Helping Hands volunteers painted, collected food, planted trees, cleaned and fixed up the states of California and Hawaii. Mormon Helping Hands are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) anxious to make a difference by being good neighbors in...
LDS volunteers continue to serve
Mormon volunteers join forces with their local community in an effort to show their faith in Jesus Christ and follow his example of service. In Murrieta, Calif., members of a stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were planning to work together with the local Catholic and...
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LDS volunteers serving communities
People in communities across the country are engaging in service projects this spring that will benefit and beautify their communities.
Among the countless volunteers and organizations performing service are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormon Helping Hands Busy Lending a Hand
With the recent tornadoes in the Midwest, in what has been a destructive tornado season so far, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) are giving needed assistance. More than 300 Mormon Helping Hands volunteers from the Church’s Bloomington Indiana Stake (similar to a...
Today in the Bloggernacle: Helping hands in Sacramento and 'Stop It!'
Helping hands: See how this community comes together in Sacramento to get much done in little time at the North Laguna Park last weekend. In “Sacramento Mormon Helping Hands 2012,” watch raking, cementing, painting, cleaning, and other types of hard working that result in a beautiful park cleanup...
Helpings Hands Program Opens Way for Missionary Work, New Stake in Amapa, Brazil
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, 21 people—including both families and individuals—entered the waters of baptism. This is the largest number of people in recent years in the Brazilian states of Para and Amapá, both part of the Brazil Belém Mission, to receive the ordinance of baptism on the same day...
The Church Is Reaching Out and Helping
One year after a horrific earthquake and tsunami, prominent signs standing amid the miles and miles of devastation and destruction in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture send a one-word message of the resiliency of the people: Ganbaru, which means “hold out, stand firm, and hang in there.” It is the same...
