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Serving others — especially within one's own community —
continues to be a hallmark of Relief Society. In photo at right, Susan
Cline, Relief Society president in the Providence Rhode Island Stake,
right, and then-ward media specialist Elizabeth Edwards, left, presents
quilts to Ana Wulfkuhle of Hospice Care of Rhode Island. Sister Edwards,
now a member of the stake Relief Society presidency, is a hospice
volunteer. She learned that the Phillip Hulitar Inpatient Center, for
terminally ill patients who can no longer be cared for at home, was only
last year able to afford a more homelike atmosphere, such as nice bedsheets
and night-wear. Stake Relief Society sisters made 11 quilts for the 10-bed
center and presented them Aug. 15 of this year. On each quilt was stitched
the words, "Lovingly made by your sisters of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints." The event was publicized on a local television station,
in several local newspapers, and also in a newsletter printed by the
center's controlling business entity. The newsletter goes to tens of
thousands, Sister Edwards explained.
In photo left, Bonnie Jean Petersen of the Salt Lake Olympus Stake crochets bandages for leprosy patients as part of a stake Relief Society service day in March. The materials were donated to the Church's Humanitarian Service Center in Salt Lake City.
Stake Relief Society President Elaine Finlinson later said: "The concern and charity that we as women feel naturally, when put together with two or 20 or 200 other Relief Society sisters, makes such a strong bond. Then when you combine it with the spirit of love for others and the Lord, the strength is something you can almost tangibly feel. Then we become instruments in the hands of the Lord to fulfill the needs of others."
