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Gay has been actively involved in poverty relief and humanitarian aid in developing countries, serving as a co-founder (primarily with his wife, Lynette) of the Brigham Young University Center for Economic Self Reliance. [8] Gay has been a major contributor to this center, now named the Melvin J. Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance. [9]
Latter-day Saints are constantly encouraged by their leaders to avoid debt and practice self-reliance. [29] It lessens their reliance on outside sources, preparing them for the perilous days they believe to be ahead. The church offers self-reliance courses for their members to teach them how to accomplish this.
Latter-day Saint Charities (formerly known as LDS Humanitarian Services) [1] is a branch of the welfare department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The organization's stated mission is to relieve suffering, to foster self-reliance for people of all nationalities and religions, and to provide opportunities for ...
The LDS Church has made similar efforts in the past to provide for the temporal needs of its members. The program is modeled after the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which provided loans to more than 40,000 19th-century Latter-day Saint immigrants looking to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, but lacking the funds to do so.
On April 18, 2012, the church donated five sewing machines, three fishing spears, goggles, fins, snorkels and underwater lights as a humanitarian donation to the Ohwa International Christian Academy in its efforts to teach self-reliance to its students.
In 2018, the LDS Church stated it will continue taking part of national development through its self-reliance program. [12] Between July 2019 and June 2020, partnering with Sightsavers, more than 130,000 people were screened for vision loss, and 924 received sight-restoring surgery.
If you find your-self struggling with same-gender attraction, seek counsel from your parents and bishop. They will help you." [ 12 ] In 2011, the ninth version was released adding to the 2001 paragraph that "lesbian behavior" is also a "serious sin" and that the youth should speak to their parents and bishop if they "are being persuaded to ...
In this venture, the two women displayed what Mark L. Staker, a faculty member of the LDS Church History Department, calls "a strong sense of self-reliance". [8] Sarah Smith bought a parcel of land within the Connecticut Western Reserve, and soon one of Ann's uncles joined them in Ohio. Her father also tried to move west, but was prevented from ...