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The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational women's organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois , United States , and has more than 7 million members in over 188 countries and territories. [ 1 ]
The Genesis group provided meetings for Black members of the LDS church; specifically, Relief Society, Primary, Young Men, Young Women and testimony meetings. Members of Genesis were still expected to attend Sunday meetings in their home wards, [ 2 ] which at the time were sacrament meeting , Priesthood meetings, and Sunday School . [ 3 ]
The LDS Church considers humanitarian work to be an essential part of its mission to bless humanity. [citation needed] In 1842, Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, organized the Women's Relief Society, with a primary focus to provide "relief" to suffering members and ultimately to all people.
Under her leadership, the Relief Society was the fastest growing women's organization in the world. [5] The Relief Society, which had 3.9 million members when she became president in 1997, had 4.4 million by 2002. [7] [18] In 1999 she introduced a new mission statement for the Relief
The Relief Society Documents Project is a project by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to publish historical documents regarding the history of the church's organization for women, the Relief Society.
When Relief Society secretary Eliza R. Snow joined the Latter Day Saints in their exodus west in 1846, she carried the Relief Society Book of Records with her. Although they no longer met in an official capacity, women continued to assemble informally; the care and nurture of the needy continued without a formal Relief Society organization. [22]
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot [2] [3] developed by OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is currently based on the GPT-4o large language model (LLM). ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. [4]
During her sophomore year, the family's milkman, Ned Winder, introduced Barbara to his brother, Richard W. Winder, who had recently returned home from an LDS mission. The couple's first date was a hay ride at the Winder family dairy, and two and a half weeks later, Barbara accepted Richard's proposal of marriage. [ 4 ]