Ardeth Kapp speaks at education conference
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BUENA VISTA, VA.
"Membership in this Church is a call to servant-leadership, and our service can be small but powerful when magnified by the Spirit," said Ardeth G. Kapp, former Young Women general president and lecturer, speaking at the 9th annual Education Conference at the LDS-oriented Southern Virginia University.
"Who we are is for us to discover, and we discover it faster through our own service," she said.
The conference was based on "Leader-Servants in the Footsteps of the Master," and also focused on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith.
Sister Kapp was joined at the conference by Matthew Richardson, associate dean of BYU's Religious Education, who said, "It is not a leader who serves, but a servant who leads. A servant-leader is more about being than doing, but it is wonderful circle — doing leads to becoming and becoming leads back to doing. . . . The scriptures are powerful legacy stories of faith. They are stories of refinement, and, as disciples of Christ, we are being refined."
About 250 people from the mid-Atlantic region attended the conference held June 10-11. Among the other presenters were Gary and Joy Lundberg, family advocates; Del Parson, artist; Jeffrey Marsh, professor of ancient scriptures at BYU; and Gracia N. Jones, great-great-granddaughter of Joseph and Emma Smith.
