On 27 July a group of women and girls from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Albany, New Zealand made quilts for New Zealand Red Cross to deliver to refugees.
According to one of the participants, Rachel Smith, they were responding to an invitation from Latter-day Saint leaders to come together to find ways to help individuals and families who have been forced to leave their home countries.
Latter-day Saint groups around the world, like this one, regularly take part in humanitarian and other community service activities.
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, has often spoken and written on service to others.
In 2009, President Monson said, “As we look heavenward, we inevitably learn of our responsibility to reach outward. To find real happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man.”
Read his entire talk, titled, “The Joy of Service,” here.
