Kick Off Devotional

DON'T FORGET THE KICK OFF DEVOTIONAL ON SUNDAY...6:00PM IN THE CHAPEL AT THE STAKE CENTER, SO SUNDAY DRESS. IT WON'T BE YOUR TYPICAL DEVOTIONAL.

Perpetual Funds...

What is the difference between the Perpetual Emigration Fund and the Perpetual Education Fund we have today? If you don't know, take some time to find out...

Do these programs strengthen your testimony of our Prophets and that the Lord directs this church?

Perpetual Funds...

The Perpetual Emigration fund...

"Missionary work in Great Britain was so successful that by 1850 there were 30,747 Church members in Britain compared to only 11,380 in Utah. While most of those Saint wanted to gather to Zion, many were too poor to pay for their passage, barely subsisting from week to week. By 1856, only 5 percent of those who wanted to emigrate had been able to do so."

Brigham Young said the purpose of the Perpetual Emigration Fund was "to deliver the honest poor, the pauper...from the thraldom of ages, from localities where poverty is a crime, ...where every avenue to rise in the scale of being to any degree of respectable joyous existence forever closed."

"Through this fund, the poor were advanced part of the money they needed for the journey to Utah. After arriving, they were expected to repay the fund in cash, commodities, or labor. The replenished fund could then be used to help others."

("The Price We Paid" - Andrew D. Olsen)