Church leaders meet with 'Muslim Aid' International Relief Organisation
News Release — 20 January 2013National Church leaders, Elder Clifford T Herbertson and Rowland and Barbara Elvidge, met with key leaders of Muslim Aid, an international relief and development organisation at their international headquarters in London.
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Shadow Justice Secretary attends Wandsworth Concert
News Release — 19 January 2013Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Wandsworth, London, area recently celebrated the holiday season with a concert that featured the attendance of local government dignitaries. The Right Honourable Sadiq Khan, Shadow Justice Secretary and MP for Tooting, London, and Councillor Adrian Knowles, Mayor of Wandsworth, were special invited guests with the 150 members and friends who attended this musical tribute.
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Rebekah donates hair to charity
News Release — 18 January 2013Rebekah MacDonald, aged 5 years, of the Dunfermline congregation in Dundee Scotland , always dreamed of having Rapunzel hair, but recently chose to have 15 inches of her hair cut off for charity. Her hair was donated to 'The Little Princess Trust', an organisation that provides real-hair wigs, at no cost to children, who suffer hair loss due to illnesses such as cancer.
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Coventry Concert provides toys for local children
News Release — 18 January 2013Hundreds of members of the Coventry area gathered to celebrate this years’ Christmas season at an annual carol concert in a very special way. The event, now in its eleventh year, was organized to not only mark the start of the Christmas period but to collect toys that could be distributed by the Rotary Club of Coventry Phoenix and Coventry Social Services as gifts to children in the local area who may otherwise go without.
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Original show 'Redemption' in Celebration of 30th anniversary
News Release — 11 January 2013The congregations of the Poole, Dorset area of the Church celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2012. To mark this occasion, local Church leaders proposed that a special show be produced to utilise all the talent of the members into one substantial production. This show, ‘Redemption’, raised £2700 through ticket sales and donations for the Royal British Legion’s annual Poppy Appeal in November. The Church supported this appeal nationally for the first time this year involving congregations all around the UK in collecting, supporting and raising funds through organized events for the RBL.
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Harrogate Homeless receive Donations from Mormon Women
News Release — 8 January 2013The Harrogate Homeless Project was the grateful recipient of donations by the women of the Harrogate congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lynn Purser, the Women’s leader of the Relief Society Organisation, one of the oldest and largest women’s organizations in the world, with a membership of 4.5 million, presented 50 bags of donated items, which included toiletries and other essential items. These bags were given to the charity to hand onto the homeless who are sleeping rough on the streets of Harrogate.
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Live Nativity raises Funds for Hereford MS Centre
News Release — 4 January 2013£500 was raised for the Hereford MS Therapy Centre from members of the Hereford congregation, singing carols and providing a Nativity display with real animals - a live Nativity.
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Young Girls Donate craft kits to Local Hospital
News Release — 30 December 2012Teenage girls of the Kettering congregation aged between 12 - 18 years put together 80 different handmade craft kits for children at the local Kettering General Hospital. The kits enable children patients to participate in activities whilst receiving treatment on the children's ward and included fly catchers, mobiles, puzzles, puppets etc.
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Mayor of Kettering attends Popular Christmas Concert
News Release — 23 December 2012The Mayor of Kettering, Councillor James Hakewill, and his wife the Mayoress, attended the Kettering congregation’s annual Christmas Concert with an audience of around 200. The enthusiastic mixed age choir of around 35 members in the East Midlands area performed an evening of spiritual and festive songs for the Christmas season.
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Christmas Boxes for Samaritan's Purse
News Release — 17 December 2012Over a period of four months the women of the Wandsworth area, South London, demonstrated their commitment to serving others by purchasing a range of items to be donated to children abroad. This service project was undertaken in aid of Samaritan’s Purse, the charity that runs Operation Christmas Child.
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