We hope you and your families have selected your first service project. If the Humanitarian committee can provide any information please let us know.
In addition, if you come across a great, simple opportunity that your family enjoys, please share it with us. Send to staceymarietate@verizon.net for posting or enter the info into the comments section of this blog.
Following is a post from one of our favorite bloggers that seems so appropriate as we look for opportunity to serve.
I read this awhile back and then read it again last night. It is a story related by Bonnie D. Parkin, former general Relief Society President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints."My daughter-in-law’s mother, Susan, was a wonderful seamstress. President Kimball lived in their ward. One Sunday, Susan noticed that he had a new suit. Her father had recently returned from a trip to New York and had brought her some exquisite silk fabric. Susan thought that fabric would make a handsome tie to go with President Kimball’s new suit. So on Monday she made the tie. She wrapped it in tissue paper and walked up the block to President Kimball’s home.On her way to the front door, she suddenly stopped and thought, “Who am I to make a tie for the prophet? He probably has plenty of them.” Deciding she had made a mistake, she turned to leave.Just then Sister Kimball opened the front door and said, “Oh, Susan!”Stumbling all over herself, Susan said, “I saw President Kimball in his new suit on Sunday. Dad just brought me some silk from New York . . . and so I made him a tie.”Before Susan could continue, Sister Kimball stopped her, took hold of her shoulders, and said: “Susan, never suppress a generous thought.”Susan didn’t have an assignment to make that tie. She wasn’t hired to do so. Despite feeling a bit hesitant, she did it because it felt right. Susan had a quiet sense of mission to serve others. I was also the beneficiary of such service. Her service went beyond any calling because it lasted throughout her life. Never suppressing a generous thought became a part of her personal ministry.""Never suppress a generous thought."
We had a great time last night kicking off the Seal Beach Ward Family Service Challenge. We held a treasure hunt where the families were exposed to many of the different service projects and programs. Over 30 Seal Beach Ward families signed up (or they children signed them up) to participate in the Family Service Challenge--which is-- to plan and complete one family service project each month for the next six months.
Tonight we kick off our 6 month Family Service Challenge. We can't wait to see the fun, creative and giving ways our Seal Beach Ward families choose to serve.
