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Volunteers Give Gift of Love to Play Centre Children
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with the Linwood Play Centre community yesterday to create an outdoor learning space that will be invaluable in upcoming winter months. |
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Keeping New Zealand Beautiful (Newspaper Story)
31 May 2011
Each year, a dedicated group of church members from the Hutt Valley participate in an event that allows them to give something back to the community, it’s called Mormon Helping Hands. This year, church members in the Hutt Valley teamed up with the Sandy Beath-Croft of the Lower Hutt City Council and dedicated April 2nd to Paint Hutt City Beautiful.
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USS Cleveland Brings Medical Care & LDS Aid to Papua New Guineans (Newspaper Story)
28 May 2011
MEMBERS of the multi-national mission Pacific Partnership 2011 based aboard amphibious transport dock ship USS Cleveland (LPD 7) conducted medical and dental examinations at Haus Clare Crisis Centre for Children on May 21 in Lae, Morobe
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When Thou Art Converted (Newspaper Story)
26 May 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Prior to the Savior's crucifixion he had a conversation with his senior apostle Peter. What the Savior said shocked Peter. Peter knew who the Savior was. In Matthew 16:13-16 Peter had strongly stated:
"Though art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
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Australian Church Member Joins Prince Charles in Online Bible Project (Newspaper Story)
26 May 2011
The King James Bible Trust has been established to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible which was completed in 1611. Throughout 2011, many Events and Projects will be taking place across the UK and around the World to mark the 400 years since the creation of the book that changed the world. This video features a reading by Brother Walters of Deloraine, Tasmania.
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Volunteers Help School, Explain Why (Newspaper Story)
25 May 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - A new video posted on YouTube today features Mormon Helping Hands volunteers painting a classroom block and sprucing up the grounds of Windy Ridge Primary School.
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Deseret News Reports on Rugby League Players and Missions (Newspaper Story)
21 May 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, USA - A decision made by a 19-year-old Mormon is making headlines in Australia these days.
Will Hopoate, a fullback for the Manly-Warrinagh Sea Eagles, recently announced his decision to leave professional rugby at the end of the season to serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In so doing, he is forsaking millions.
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Putting Faith and Family First (Newspaper Story)
18 May 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Debbie Beaumont lives in New Zealand with her husband and two of her daughters. Recently she shared her feelings about life, her family, and what it means to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Rugby: Graham on the Ticket for Chiefs (Newspaper Story)
18 May 2011
Hawke's Bay - born Chiefs rugby lock Romana Graham knows all about missions. Back in 2006 he completed a two-year Mormon Church mission in Western Australia. Two years later he successfully completed a rugby comeback mission after being sidelined for most of 2007 with a ruptured disk injury and for the early part of the 2008 season with a knee injury.
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More than 100 Church Logos Represent Membership Diversity (Newspaper Story)
17 May 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - One way to note the growth in Latter-day Saint membership is with different languages in which the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is known.
The Church translates its written material such as scriptures, teaching manuals and magazines into 166 languages and now has reached a milestone with its official logo by translating it into more than 100 languages.
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Will Hopoate Announces Plans to Serve Mission (Newspaper Story)
13 May 2011
MANLY, Australia - Rising star William Hopoate has knocked back the chance to be an 19-year-old millionaire, with his father John Hopoate revealing his son turned down an offer of $1.5 million to become a Mormon missionary.
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Hungry Student Commuters to Get Free Winter Meals (Newspaper Story)
11 May 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Student commuters from Linwood College are no longer facing the bleak prospect of winter classes on empty stomachs. A new community initiative launching today is making sure that Linwood College students are warm and nourished when they arrive for afternoon studies at Cashmere High School.
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Maori Party MP Thanks LDS Volunteers (Newspaper Story)
11 May 2011
Rahui Katene is welcoming a new initiative by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide free meals to students at Linwood College in Christchurch who travel long distances every day to get to school as a result of the recent earthquake.
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Mei's Mother's Day Talk (Newspaper Story)
9 May 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Eight-year-old Christchurch girl, Mei, spoke about mothers (including her own) in a church service yesterday. Mei and her family are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Donor Heart for David (Newspaper Story)
4 May 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Gift of Life: David Rich,got his long-awaited heart transplant on the day his story featured in the North Shore Times.
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Gift of Love to Christchurch Children (Newspaper Story)
30 April 2011
The mother of Nayan Woods, the four-year-old killed by teenage driver Ashley Austin, was among dozens of volunteers working to improve the Linwood Playcentre yesterday.
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Kiwi Couple Share Keys of a Happy Marriage (Newspaper Story)
29 April 2011
GOLDEN couple Bill and Inez Hindmarsh celebrate their 50-year wedding anniversary today with well-wishes for the royal lovebirds about to be married half a world away.
Mrs Hindmarsh (nee Marsh), from Dannevirke, said the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was “wonderful” and “very romantic”, and wished them a long and happy marriage.
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Students and Missionaries Honour Fallen Soldiers (Newspaper Story)
28 April 2011
PERTH, Australia - High school students and missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ensured that remembrance plaques in Kings Park were "up to scratch" for this year's Anzac Day services, according to a report this week in The West Australian newspaper.
"For the past 25 years, students from Carine Senior High School have had the important task of preparing each of the 1471 plaques," the article states. "They are cleaned and each bears flowers and an Australian flag."
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Elder Ian S. Ardern: 'Go and do' (Newspaper Story)
27 April 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, United States - When conversing about his recent call to the First Quorum of the Seventy, Elder Ian S. Ardern is apt to make an allusion to the prophet Nephi.
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What the Temple Means to Me (Newspaper Story)
23 April 2011
HAMILTON, New Zealand - When James Dunlop was fifteen he saw the twelve bronze oxen that support the Hamilton New Zealand Temple's baptismal font just unpacked from their delivery crates, but not yet assembled. At the time, 53 years ago, he felt deeply his responsibility to find the details about his ancestors that would be needed to perform the ordinances for them.
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Heart Transplant Patient Enduring with Faith (Newspaper Story)
22 April 2011
A young father of five is staying positive as he awaits a heart transplant.
David Rich, 42, had a pacemaker inserted about five years ago because the electrical pulses in his heart were not communicating properly, he says.
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150 Million and Counting: The Book of Mormon Reaches Another Milestone (Newspaper Story)
19 April 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, United States - As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grows, so does the publishing of the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The 150 millionth copy of the Book of Mormon was recently printed, passing another milestone in the book's 181-year history.
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Tears & Smiles From Earthquake Messages (Newspaper Story)
19 April 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand -Four simple words written on pink paper in a small child’s writing were enough to bring one person to tears yesterday, they read “I pray for you”. The card was one of nearly two thousand messages of support sent by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from around New Zealand to Christchurch children and families. A large selection of the cards were displayed in the Latter-day Saint Chapel located in Opawa on the weekend.
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Messages of Support Lift Spirits (Newspaper Story)
18 April 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Four simple words written on pink paper in a small child's writing were enough to bring one Christchurch Latter-day Saint to tears. They read: "I pray for you."
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Michael Otterson on The Book of Mormon Musical (Newspaper Story)
18 April 2011
WASHINGTON, USA - Reviews of “The Book of Mormon” musical have been all over the entertainment media in the past few weeks. According to the reviews, the play sketches the journey of two Mormon missionaries from their sheltered life in Salt Lake City to Uganda, where their training and life experience proves wholly inadequate to the realities
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Churches Team Up to Do Good (Newspaper Story)
15 April 2011
OAKLAND - The Catholic Diocese of Oakland and several congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are collaborating this month on a performance of a new oratorio called "The Lamb of God," which will serve as a prelude to another partnership in July.
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Latter-day Saints Help Plant Wetland in Hawke's Bay (Newspaper Story)
12 April 2011
GOD'S GRAFTERS: More than 100 Mormons worked in the rain at Pakowhai Country Park recently to help establish wetland plantings as part of Mormon Helping Hands.
The programme saw millions of church members around the world partake in community work for one day.
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Club President Thanks Mormon Volunteers (Newspaper Story)
11 April 2011
BRISBANE, Australia - "On the weekend after the flood, when the waters receded, we had hundreds of helpers turn up including 350 Mormons from the Church of Latter-Day Saints. They did an amazing job with the other volunteers and our members. They didn't stop for two days and were some of the most wonderful people I've met."
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Fast Way to Beat Risk of Heart Disease (Newspaper Story)
7 April 2011
REGULARLY going a day without food may reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes. Doctors studied the health and habits of more than 200 residents in the US state of Utah, where many Mormons fast at least a day a month
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'All Black' Rugby Legend Honoured for Faithful Missionary Service (Newspaper Story)
6 April 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - All Black legend Sid Going was honoured on the weekend at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, in the United States. Elder Neil L. Andersen, an apostle in the Church, cited Going's choice to put a promising rugby career on hold to serve a two-year mission for the Church as an example of Christ-centred faith and devotion.
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Church Announces New Temples in Canada, Colorado and Idaho (Newspaper Story)
3 April 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - During his remarks today at the first session of the 181st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church President Thomas S. Monson announced three new temples in Meridian, Idaho; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Latter-day Saint Basketballer Profiled by TVNZ (Newspaper Story)
30 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - New Zealand Breakers basketball player, Gary Wilkinson, is helping his team move into the Australian National Basketball League (A.N.B.L.) play-offs as favourites for the championship. Last night current affairs program 'Close Up' featured the player.
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Volunteers Beautify Communities, Lift Spirits (Newspaper Story)
30 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Thousands of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with school principals, government officials, neighbours and other willing workers on Saturday (26 March), to clean, paint, weed, trim and otherwise improve schools and other community facilities across the nation.
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Missionary Couple Find Joy in Connecting Families (Newspaper Story)
25 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Robert and Jo Munro are senior missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Unlike many missionaries for the Church who travel overseas to serve, the Munro's assignment at the Church's Pacific Area Office in Takapuna allows them to stay at home. They live on Auckland's North Shore, close to children and grandchildren.
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Aussie Missionary Serving Japanese (Newspaper Story)
24 March 2011
DESPITE moments of teariness since Japan's most destructive earthquake rocked her 20-year-old son's flat, Werribee mother Heather Bardzinfki is proud to see him living his dream on a Christian mission.
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Kiwi Youth Send Love to Christchurch Kids (Newspaper Story)
16 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Hundreds of children and youth from across the country are sending letters, poems, cards, pictures and other messages of love and support to young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Christchurch following last month's devastating earthquake.
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Latter-day Saint Women Celebrate Anniversary (Newspaper Story)
16 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will mark the 169th anniversary of one of the world's oldest and largest women's organizations, the Relief Society, tomorrow.
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TV3 (New Zealand) Report on Missionaries in Japan (Newspaper Story)
16 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Mormon church officials say as many as 200 missionaries working in the Sendai and Tokyo regions of Japan are being moved farther away from a nuclear power plant where elevated radiation levels have been detected
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All Is Safely Gathered In (Newspaper Story)
14 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - The following letter was written by The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in relation to preparing for adversity, should that arise:
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Japan Earthquake Update as at 15 March 2011 (Newspaper Story)
14 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - "All missionaries in Japan are safe and accounted for," according to Steve Stebbings, Pacific Area Welfare Manager for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Pacific Saints Strengthened by Elder Andersen (Newspaper Story)
13 March 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Church members and missionaries were instructed, uplifted, and edified - and friends of the Church were greeted - as Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles fulfilled assignments in Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and French Polynesia.
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Church's Missionaries in Japan All Safe and Accounted For (Newspaper Story)
13 March 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Church leaders confirmed this morning that all missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in Japan are safe and accounted for. The Church had been working diligently to make contact with missionaries in Sendai despite difficulty with communication systems and traveling in and around the city
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Church Donates Wheelchairs to Hospital (Newspaper Story)
12 March 2011
APIA, Samoa - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - under its humanitarian aid programme - donated on Monday 50 new wheel chairs to the Government of Samoa through its Ministry of Health.
The wheel chairs were made in Vietnam and shipped from there in a forty-foot container.
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Christchurch Mormons Use Internet to Connect, Communicate and Inspire (Newspaper Story)
12 March 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Christchurch are using Facebook and email to share information with each other as well as to inspire those who need a lift.
Online photos, links to videos, articles and messages are keeping Canterbury Latter-day Saints connected and helping them identify who needs help and how to lend a hand.
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Missionaries and Villagers Paint School (Newspaper Story)
12 March 2011
APIA, Samoa - After donating 345 desks and chairs to Satupa'itea last month, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has offered more help. It has painted Satupaitea Primary School's two-winged building. The work was carried out by 26 missionaries of the Church's Savai'i North, South, and Central Zones and by priesthood holders of its Mosula Ward.
Image from the Samoa Observer
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What makes Jeremiah Barnes Tick? (Newspaper Story)
12 March 2011
APIA, Samoa - Dixie State's Samoan guard Jeremiah Barnes will do whatever it takes to win on the basketball court.
He's aggressive, fearless and, at times, out of control. But when the buzzer sounds, Barnes will be one of the first people to shake hands with his opponent, before turning his attention to doing good deeds in the community and reading the bible.
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Missionary from Fiji Welcomed by Brisbane Congregation (Newspaper Story)
11 March 2011
BRISBANE, Australia - A GLOBE-TROTTING missionary has joined the team at a newly-rebuilt Runcorn church.
Elder Nemani Delaibatiki hails from Fiji but lived in New Zealand prior to his assignment to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Clifton Road.
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Brigham Young University's Honour Code and Compassion (Newspaper Story)
11 March 2011
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - The suspension of Brigham Young University basketball player Brandon Davies has caused a torrent of news coverage debating the merits of the University's honour code. The majority of news reports have been favourable toward BYU’s decision to adhere to its standards, despite the impact to a "dream basketball season."
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Original Records to be Put Online (Newspaper Story)
4 March 2011
HOBART, Australia - “About 168,000 original records will be available online under a new partnership between the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) and FamilySearch,” according to a statement issued yesterday by Lin Thorp, Tasmania’s Minister for Education and Skills.
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Latter-day Saints Safe and Well in Christchurch (Newspaper Story)
4 March 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - 34 families from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Christchurch have been displaced from their homes due to last week’s (22 February) 6.3 magnitude earthquake, according to Area Welfare Services Manager for the Church Steve Stebbings.
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Mormon Missionaries Assist in Christchurch Earthquake Cleanup (Newspaper Story)
3 March 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Elder Kevin Spampinato and Elder Joel Lekias, missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have changed their suits and ties for t-shirts, shorts and gumboots so they can help in the cleanup after last week’s devastating earthquake.
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Christchurch Couple Reflect on Personal Impact of Earthquake (Newspaper Story)
3 March 2011
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Christchurch couple Jared and Stephanie Ormsby were going about their regular business last Tuesday just before 1pm (22 February) when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked their city and shook up their lives.
In this new video on YouTube, the couple share what happened when the quake struck and how they are not only coping but looking to the future with hope.
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