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Charitable Giving Opportunity: New York Cares
Thanks to the generosity of so many people like you, we’ve already distributed more than 37,500 letters this year - but Sandy has increased the need and urgency for letters, and there are still hundreds of wishes left to be granted! We want to make sure that every child who wrote a letter gets a gift. Please register now to help out children, teens, seniors, and families who were already in need before Sandy hit, and remain in need now.
If you want to help people like the parents in Newtown, and people like them, consider donating to Survivors of Homicide.
If you want to help people like the parents in Newtown, consider donating to Bereaved Parents of the USA
The United Way of Western Connecticut has a fund to help support the families of the victims of the Newtown shooting. This is where you should focus your donations.
United Way extends our most sincere condolences and prayers to all those families affected by the devastating events in Newtown/Sandy Hook, Connecticut. While the eyes of the world may be on Newtown/Sandy Hook, to several staff, volunteers and contributors, Newtown is home. We will stand with the community and everyone affected directly and indirectly by this tragic event as we face the days and weeks ahead.
United Way of Western Connecticut is committed to providing support and resources where and when they become identified and needed. As people from our area and beyond respond to this heartbreaking tragedy, they are turning to United Way looking for ways to help. In response, United Way of Western Connecticut in partnership with Newtown Savings Bank has created the ‘Sandy Hook School Support Fund’ that will be able to provide support services to the families and community that has been affected.
Check donations may be mailed to:
Sandy Hook School Support Fund
c/o Newtown Savings Bank
39 Main Street, Newtown CT 06470
Or may be dropped off at any Newtown Savings Bank branch location
For questions about your check donation or donations within local Newtown Savings Bank branches, please call 800-461-0672.
To speak to someone at United Way, please call:
David Deschenes, Director of Brand Management
United Way of Western Connecticut
Office: (203) 792-5330 x239
Isabel Almeida, Executive Vice President of Marketing
United Way of Western Connecticut
Office: (203) 792-5330 x106
To donate by Credit Card, please complete the form below. Thank you for your support.
Many of the local service agencies are asking people to donate to the United Way link referred to above, including Newtown Connecticut Youth & Family Services (which is providing emergency counseling all day this whole week, including Sunday,) and the American Red Cross of Connecticut.
If you’re warm, cozy and safe now, consider the fact that others are not.
To help, donate to the Red Cross or look into LDS Humanitarian Services.
The Good Samaritan: Forgotten Symbols
This parable’s content is clearly practical and dramatic in its obvious meaning, but a time-honored Christian tradition also saw the parable as an impressive allegory of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. This early Christian understanding of the good Samaritan is depicted in a famous eleventh-century cathedral in Chartres, France. One of its beautiful stained-glass windows portrays the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden at the top of the window, and, in parallel, the parable of the good Samaritan at the bottom. This illustrates “a symbolic interpretation of Christ’s parable that was popular in the Middle Ages.” 2Seeing this window led me to wonder: what does the Fall of Adam and Eve have to do with the parable of the good Samaritan?
The words we use say a lot about who we are
Do what you do, but do it for God.
I have a challenge for all y’all. Don’t be hating, I have Southern relatives.
Anyway. I want to challenge everyone to do what you’re good at - what you do for fun, what you do to relax, what you do just because you always do it - but do it for inherently churchy reasons.
Like, if you take photos as a way to relax and express yourself, take photos of stuff they’re asking for at Create.LDS.org and submit them.
If you’re a wizard at making videos, same deal.
If you like sharing your life story, head on over to Mormon.org and create a profile.
If you enjoy drawing anime characters, do anime versions of Nephi and his family, or David in the lions’ den, or Solomon’s temple, or your local temple.
If, like me, you get a bizarre kick out of giving other people advice, look for questions people have in the tumblrstake, Mormon, and faith tags - and answer their questions.
If you’re a tad obsessive (also like me,) spend time tagging photos and indexing in the Vineyard.
If (again, like me, because it’s a lot easier to come up with ideas for yourself) you are a techie, sign up to do beta testing and other projects on the Tech.LDS.org site.
And so on. Come up with something you do, but do it for God and for the building up of His kingdom.
Basically, I’m saying, try to - just a little bit, as an experiment - live the law of consecration. To learn more (abstractly) about this principle, check out this article from Elder Steven D. Oveson, Personal Consecration.
But I think the best way to learn about it is to actually try it.
Listen to Stories from General Conference - Giving
(via caaamarambio)
Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen?
Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one lesson—
That the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness.
That they may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man.
Behold, ere he is aware, he is left unto himself, to kick against the pricks, to persecute the saints, and to fight against God.
We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.
Hence many are called, but few are chosen.
No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;
By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile—
Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;
That he may know that thy faithfulness is stronger than the cords of death.
Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.
The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever.
