Mormon Helping Hands

[Anonymous]

Here’s an award winning CNN video about Mormon Helping Hands helping clean up the muck after Hurricane Sandy:

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From the vivid imagery to the emotional interviews with residents affected by Sandy, Brown’s video takes you to a place that lost it all. The arc of the story goes from the despair people face to the hope they feel when volunteers come to save the day

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-881281

– zdan, CNN iReport producer

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A few years ago, after Hurricane Katrina, I participated in a similar effort spending weekends helping muck out folk’s homes in New Orleans. It was a powerfully moving experience for both the participants and the beneficiaries. I would highly encourage everyone who has the chance participate in similar events. :clap:

[Anonymous]

Although some complain about the PR spin on helping hands, I love the principle. This, more than anything else, is what the Lord told us to ‘be’ in Matt 25.

[Anonymous]

I seem to recall hearing that Helping Hands was a reaction by the church around a threat to it’s charitable status

Anyone hear of such a thing?

[Anonymous]

Nope, and I personally think it’s untrue.

[Anonymous]

mackay11 wrote:

Although some complain about the PR spin on helping hands, I love the principle. This, more than anything else, is what the Lord told us to ‘be’ in Matt 25.

What I complain about is the parts of the old YM manual (based on the NT) that stressed doing good deeds in secret to the point that they didn’t want to recognise youth that had raised a sum of money for a charitable cause. This just seems to fly in the face of so much that we do in the church from PR to the Boy Scout program – that it seems capricious to decide that some good deeds should be recognized and honored and some others should be kept secret. If you want to keep your stuff secret – fine, but don’t be telling me that I am suddenly prideful for wanting my kid’s accomplishments to be honored.

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