Pres. Dallin H. Oaks (Oct. '22): "Helping the Poor and Distressed"

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 It feels like a number of talks in recent conferences-- those that have highlighted the Church's humanitarian efforts as well as others stressing cooperative/individual service-- have laid the groundwork for this talk in this conference.  Perhaps this is an issue we need to take more seriously as a people.

Activity:

  1. Read the last sentence of par. 23 ("It also shows . . . to do so.")
  2. Discuss the importance of being actively engaged in service through organizations outside of the Church as well as through the Church itself
  3. Ask the class members to take out their phones and download the JustServe app (you might want to project the website up for the class, if you have the technology).  
  4. Walk the class members through the set up
  5. Ask them to look through some of the service opportunities that come up for them in the app.
  6. Ask the class members to share one or two interesting opportunities they saw with a neighbor.

Using the Activity:

The Church as invested heavily in the last decade to create and spread the news about many useful apps and online tools.  Justserve is one of those (there is a website also-- linked above).  

The basis of this activity is that there are a number of opportunities and organizations all around us that we may not be aware of that we would enjoy working with.  Not knowing about them is all that is really keeping us from helping out.  So, this activity is designed to provide our class members with a tool that can help them find one-time service opportunities and/or ongoing service opportunities.  

I hope that this activity is useful for you and your class members.  Thanks for visiting my blog.  

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