05/03/09 Sunday
9:15am R. Cole; R. Smith
9:30am J. Romney & N. Goodenow
05/06/09 Wed.
6:45pm B. Mitchell, J. Henry
7:00pm D. Waters, S. Frickey, D. Ames
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Citrus Chronicle Article
By Nancy Kennedy
By 9 a.m. Saturday, the Family Resource Center building in Hernando was well on its way to getting a much-needed facelift.
About 70 volunteers, from youths and adults from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lecanto to some homeless people from the area, came together as part of “The Helping Hands and Linking Arms Project,” organized by Elder Walter González, who presides over LDS church affairs for the southeastern United States.
The goal of the day of service was to bring LDS church members and community groups together to serve their common communities.
“There’s a total of 550 projects going on today across the southeast, and this is just one of them,” said Douglas Carter, stake president.
Each local congregation is called a ward, with about eight wards in a stake. The local stake encompasses Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.
Carter said approximately 88 stakes (between 600 to 700 wards) were involved in the mass day of service.
Some of the other projects included: food and blood drives; distributing food, blankets and clothing to the homeless; landscaping an old cemetery; park clean up, health fairs and even taking kids with special needs fishing.
“They estimate this day covers 250,000 volunteer hours from 35,000 church members and 17,000 nonmembers,” Carter said.
For 15-year-old Shelby Fulford, it meant painting with her friends from church.
“We have a service project once a month,” she said. “We do things like going to people’s houses to clean behind their refrigerators or clean up the roads around our church.
“We come here (to the Family Resource Center) every Christmas and wrap presents. That’s my favorite,” she said.
For church member Heather McLeod, this day brought back nostalgic memories.
“I grew up here — went to school here for first and second grade,” she said of the Historic Hernando Elementary School where the Family Resource Center shares space with other community organizations and groups.
Currently a teacher at Inverness Primary School and a church member, McLeod said it felt good to be able to do something meaningful for the families who are served by the center.
“One of the main reasons this is being done right now — this side of the building that they’re painting had started to peel,” said Ginger West, director of the resource center. “The day care depends on the building looking nice for their accreditation, so we’ll do anything to keep our day care, because that is an important, important group. It’s the birth to (age) 3 Head Start group, and that allows moms to be able to work so they can support their families so they don’t end up being homeless.”
West said this isn’t the first time she’s benefited from the local LDS church members.
“They’ve always been helpful to us,” she said. “This is just the first time we’ve had so many all at once.”
In the past year, the church has made a concerted effort to become more involved in partnering with other churches and community agencies to better serve the community.
Last Thanksgiving, the church donated $8,500 worth of food from the Bishop’s Storehouse to help the New Church Without Walls and other agencies feed the hungry in Citrus County, plus another $30,000 worth of food at Christmas was distributed to the hungry in Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.
“We’ve tried really hard to involve partner organizations outside the church to foster a community atmosphere and have the community work together,” said Carter. “When we work together in a unified way, we’re able to get a lot more done.”
There were pictures of some of the primary kids that participated. The entire article with the pictures is available at http://www.chronicleonline.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?071+article+News+20090426203527071311
By 9 a.m. Saturday, the Family Resource Center building in Hernando was well on its way to getting a much-needed facelift.
About 70 volunteers, from youths and adults from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lecanto to some homeless people from the area, came together as part of “The Helping Hands and Linking Arms Project,” organized by Elder Walter González, who presides over LDS church affairs for the southeastern United States.
The goal of the day of service was to bring LDS church members and community groups together to serve their common communities.
“There’s a total of 550 projects going on today across the southeast, and this is just one of them,” said Douglas Carter, stake president.
Each local congregation is called a ward, with about eight wards in a stake. The local stake encompasses Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.
Carter said approximately 88 stakes (between 600 to 700 wards) were involved in the mass day of service.
Some of the other projects included: food and blood drives; distributing food, blankets and clothing to the homeless; landscaping an old cemetery; park clean up, health fairs and even taking kids with special needs fishing.
“They estimate this day covers 250,000 volunteer hours from 35,000 church members and 17,000 nonmembers,” Carter said.
For 15-year-old Shelby Fulford, it meant painting with her friends from church.
“We have a service project once a month,” she said. “We do things like going to people’s houses to clean behind their refrigerators or clean up the roads around our church.
“We come here (to the Family Resource Center) every Christmas and wrap presents. That’s my favorite,” she said.
For church member Heather McLeod, this day brought back nostalgic memories.
“I grew up here — went to school here for first and second grade,” she said of the Historic Hernando Elementary School where the Family Resource Center shares space with other community organizations and groups.
Currently a teacher at Inverness Primary School and a church member, McLeod said it felt good to be able to do something meaningful for the families who are served by the center.
“One of the main reasons this is being done right now — this side of the building that they’re painting had started to peel,” said Ginger West, director of the resource center. “The day care depends on the building looking nice for their accreditation, so we’ll do anything to keep our day care, because that is an important, important group. It’s the birth to (age) 3 Head Start group, and that allows moms to be able to work so they can support their families so they don’t end up being homeless.”
West said this isn’t the first time she’s benefited from the local LDS church members.
“They’ve always been helpful to us,” she said. “This is just the first time we’ve had so many all at once.”
In the past year, the church has made a concerted effort to become more involved in partnering with other churches and community agencies to better serve the community.
Last Thanksgiving, the church donated $8,500 worth of food from the Bishop’s Storehouse to help the New Church Without Walls and other agencies feed the hungry in Citrus County, plus another $30,000 worth of food at Christmas was distributed to the hungry in Citrus, Lake and Sumter counties.
“We’ve tried really hard to involve partner organizations outside the church to foster a community atmosphere and have the community work together,” said Carter. “When we work together in a unified way, we’re able to get a lot more done.”
There were pictures of some of the primary kids that participated. The entire article with the pictures is available at http://www.chronicleonline.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?071+article+News+20090426203527071311
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Upcoming Lesson Schedule
May 03 2009 PH/RS Duties and Responsibilities
May 10 2009 Chapter 32: Responding to Persecution with Faith and Courage
May 17 2009 Chapter 33: The Spiritual Gifts of Healing, Tongues, Prophecy, and Discerning of Spirits
May 24 2009 TFOT - The Way - Elder Lawrence E Corbridge
May 31 2009 Combined PH/RS - Bishopric Instruction
May 10 2009 Chapter 32: Responding to Persecution with Faith and Courage
May 17 2009 Chapter 33: The Spiritual Gifts of Healing, Tongues, Prophecy, and Discerning of Spirits
May 24 2009 TFOT - The Way - Elder Lawrence E Corbridge
May 31 2009 Combined PH/RS - Bishopric Instruction
Come Paint your Heart out at our Hernando Day of service!!!
Just remember to silence the music on the IPOD at the bottom if you want to watch a video!!!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Day of Service Pictures
For a video on YOU TUBE: Please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxJIZ66lv4
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Day of Service Updates
****We are going to prepare the lunches for the Day of Service at the Family Resource Center--and NOT the church. The newspaper will be there and members from the stake--so it was decided that we needed to do everything at the Family Resource Center. We want everyone to be a part of this day of service. Lunch duty still begins at 9am (while the painting duty begins at 8am).
Location: Corner of 486 and HWY 41. Right across from the Hernando Post Office.
Here is the information--but scroll down past this information for MORE Announcements!
Family Resource Center of Citrus County Inc
2435 N Florida Ave
Hernando, FL 34442
(352) 344-1001
Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Family+Resource+Center+Hernando+Florida&sll=28.836057,-82.348645&sspn=0.067368,0.154495&ie=UTF8&ll=28.902998,-82.373514&spn=0.016831,0.038624&z=15&iwloc=A
Lunch Duty Sign Up: Debusk, Beaumont, Smith, O'Neal, Fox, Pare
Painting: Treadway, Conkel, Coleman, Elliott
We are hoping for 100+ people--so please come out--even if you haven't signed up.
Remember your food drive stuff! Try to stick to the exact items requested!
Here's what we had at the church tonight: 7 packs of Fruit Juice Boxes; 8 Packs of Fruit Roll Ups; 12 Packs of Granola Bars; and 16 cans of Spaghetti O's!
This is a great start--It's enough to fill one tupperware container! Let's bring some more stuff on Saturday (participation is optional).
I will post more announcements related to Day of Service (if anything comes up) --so check your email this week.
Location: Corner of 486 and HWY 41. Right across from the Hernando Post Office.
Here is the information--but scroll down past this information for MORE Announcements!
Family Resource Center of Citrus County Inc
2435 N Florida Ave
Hernando, FL 34442
(352) 344-1001
Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Family+Resource+Center+Hernando+Florida&sll=28.836057,-82.348645&sspn=0.067368,0.154495&ie=UTF8&ll=28.902998,-82.373514&spn=0.016831,0.038624&z=15&iwloc=A
Lunch Duty Sign Up: Debusk, Beaumont, Smith, O'Neal, Fox, Pare
Painting: Treadway, Conkel, Coleman, Elliott
We are hoping for 100+ people--so please come out--even if you haven't signed up.
Remember your food drive stuff! Try to stick to the exact items requested!
Here's what we had at the church tonight: 7 packs of Fruit Juice Boxes; 8 Packs of Fruit Roll Ups; 12 Packs of Granola Bars; and 16 cans of Spaghetti O's!
This is a great start--It's enough to fill one tupperware container! Let's bring some more stuff on Saturday (participation is optional).
I will post more announcements related to Day of Service (if anything comes up) --so check your email this week.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Day of Service
LDS NEWSROOM: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/hundreds-of-thousands-of-volunteers-to-provide-day-of-service-in-eleven-southern-states
Join the Facebook Day of Service Group: search for Day of Service: Lecanto, FL
or just "Day of Service"
We are trying to get the word out!!!
Join the Facebook Day of Service Group: search for Day of Service: Lecanto, FL
or just "Day of Service"
We are trying to get the word out!!!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Day of Service
Remember to bring your food items (Spagetti O's, Fruit Roll Ups, Fruit Juice Boxes, and Granola Bars!)
If you want to watch the video below of the "prep" day--please silence the "ipod music" at the bottom of the blog (see directions below on the post from 4/12/2009).
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.
We have a Face Book Event posted
SEARCH: Day of Service: Lecanto, Florida
You can RSVP if you want on Facebook!
If you want to watch the video below of the "prep" day--please silence the "ipod music" at the bottom of the blog (see directions below on the post from 4/12/2009).
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday.
We have a Face Book Event posted
SEARCH: Day of Service: Lecanto, Florida
You can RSVP if you want on Facebook!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
If you want to watch the Easter Video
I have the little IPOD of music at the very bottom of this blog . . . to play background music. TO watch the video--you have to silence the IPOD music . . .so here's what you need to do!
1) Scroll to the bottom so that you can see the Pink IPOD
2) There's a dark pink circle (in the bottom 1/2) of the IPOD--it has "buttons" on it for play/pause/FF/Rew. (etc) just like a remote for a TV.
3) I can't see the buttons--on my computer--but they are there
4) Click the bottom part of the circle (Where a 6 would be on a clock)--and that will PAUSE the music.
5) Then scroll back to the top to watch the Easter Video.
OR you can go to LDS.ORG and watch the video!
Brittan
1) Scroll to the bottom so that you can see the Pink IPOD
2) There's a dark pink circle (in the bottom 1/2) of the IPOD--it has "buttons" on it for play/pause/FF/Rew. (etc) just like a remote for a TV.
3) I can't see the buttons--on my computer--but they are there
4) Click the bottom part of the circle (Where a 6 would be on a clock)--and that will PAUSE the music.
5) Then scroll back to the top to watch the Easter Video.
OR you can go to LDS.ORG and watch the video!
Brittan
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sign Up Sheets
There will be several sign up sheets on Sunday!
1) Day of Service--Prepare Lunches at church (starting at 9am); Work at the Resource Center (starting at 8am).
2) If you would like to go to the Cannery on Saturday April 18th! (Morning work session)
Look for these sign up sheets in R/S if you are wanting to sign up for something!
1) Day of Service--Prepare Lunches at church (starting at 9am); Work at the Resource Center (starting at 8am).
2) If you would like to go to the Cannery on Saturday April 18th! (Morning work session)
Look for these sign up sheets in R/S if you are wanting to sign up for something!
NEW MEETING LOCATION
Remember, we are no longer meeting in the chapel for R/S. Starting this Sunday--we will be meeting in the area where Brother Branson has been teaching Sunday School!
April V/T message
Here's a really neat quote from the V/T message . . . if you want to read the entire message--just click on the Little Lamb to the left!
President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994): “Success in righteousness, the power to avoid deception and resist temptation, guidance in our daily lives, healing of the soul—these are but a few of the promises the Lord has given to those who will come to His word. … Certain blessings are to be found only in the scriptures, only in coming to the word of the Lord and holding fast to it. …
“… Recommit yourselves to a study of the scriptures. Immerse yourselves in them daily so you will have the power of the Spirit to attend you in your callings. Read them in your families and teach your children to love and treasure them” (“The Power of the Word,” Ensign, May 1986, 82).
I love the message this quote conveys!
President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994): “Success in righteousness, the power to avoid deception and resist temptation, guidance in our daily lives, healing of the soul—these are but a few of the promises the Lord has given to those who will come to His word. … Certain blessings are to be found only in the scriptures, only in coming to the word of the Lord and holding fast to it. …
“… Recommit yourselves to a study of the scriptures. Immerse yourselves in them daily so you will have the power of the Spirit to attend you in your callings. Read them in your families and teach your children to love and treasure them” (“The Power of the Word,” Ensign, May 1986, 82).
I love the message this quote conveys!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Day of Service is This month
Remember we are doing a food drive for the following 4 items:
1) Spaghetti-O's POP TOP
2) Granola Bars
3) 100% Fruit Juice Boxes
4) Fruit Roll-Ups
Please start bringing these items on Sunday--as we only have a few weeks to collect these goods!
1) Spaghetti-O's POP TOP
2) Granola Bars
3) 100% Fruit Juice Boxes
4) Fruit Roll-Ups
Please start bringing these items on Sunday--as we only have a few weeks to collect these goods!
Temple/Canning Assignments
The Adult Baptism Trip is scheduled for this Friday night. Please plan on coming if you are available! What a great way to bring in the Easter Weekend! (6:30--Orlando Florida Temple)
The Newsletter announced that the April 18th Canning Trip for R/S was canceled! This is true--because the R/S presidency is tied up w/ Trek & Woodbadge! However, there is a Ward Canning assignment at the VERY same time! The Priesthood will be asked to fill this assignment--and the sisters are encouraged to go on this canning assignment too! (They assignment is from 8am-Noon)
The Newsletter announced that the April 18th Canning Trip for R/S was canceled! This is true--because the R/S presidency is tied up w/ Trek & Woodbadge! However, there is a Ward Canning assignment at the VERY same time! The Priesthood will be asked to fill this assignment--and the sisters are encouraged to go on this canning assignment too! (They assignment is from 8am-Noon)
Lesson Schedule
This week is Lesson 30: (Sumlin) "Valiant in the Cause of Christ"
Next week (April 19): 31: (Campbell): God shall be with you forever and ever--The prophet in Liberty Jail
April 26: TFOT (Forseythe): Pray Always--Bednar (October 2008 conference)--linked to the side.
Next week (April 19): 31: (Campbell): God shall be with you forever and ever--The prophet in Liberty Jail
April 26: TFOT (Forseythe): Pray Always--Bednar (October 2008 conference)--linked to the side.
The Newest apostle
The newest apostle was sustained during this last general conference . . . Neil L. Andersen! Many of you may know him because he and his wife lived and served in the Tampa Bay area!
A neat article about his feelings about being called as an Apostle . . .
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/56950/Great-honor-and-responsibility-have-come-to-him.html
FREE Local CPR Class
Talk about a neat thing to do . . .
FREE CPR CLASS AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION Friends and Family CPR Course May 19th, 2009 - Three FREE Sessions Call to reserve your seat! 352-249-4750 10am, 2pm and 5:30pm Nature Coast EMS Administration and Education Building 3876 W Country Hill Drive, Lecanto, Fl 34461 One block off Hwy 44 on Hwy 490 The class is free. The Book is included.
FREE CPR CLASS AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION Friends and Family CPR Course May 19th, 2009 - Three FREE Sessions Call to reserve your seat! 352-249-4750 10am, 2pm and 5:30pm Nature Coast EMS Administration and Education Building 3876 W Country Hill Drive, Lecanto, Fl 34461 One block off Hwy 44 on Hwy 490 The class is free. The Book is included.
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