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  • Missionary work a responsibility of every member

    Fifty years ago as he closed the April 1959 general conference, President David O. McKay twice pronounced the phrase "every member a missionary." That simple, four-word statement immediately thrust missionary work into the consciousness of the general Church membership and has since thrived over the past half-century as an oft-repeated reminder.
    Published: Saturday, April 4, 2009

  • Organ tutorial online

    A BYU online organ tutorial course can benefit Church members with piano skills who have been called by priesthood leaders to serve as unit organists.
    Published: Saturday, March 14, 2009

  • Corporate change

    Looking out the window behind his desk in his fifth-floor Eagle Gate Building office, new Deseret Management Corp. president and chief executive officer Mark H. Willes can't help but come face-to-face with a reminder of his new employer, as "THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS" title across the fa?de of the facing Church Administration Building on the opposite side of Salt Lake City's South Temple Street dominates his view.
    Published: Saturday, March 14, 2009

  • Picked for the piano, Primary youth perform

    Sitting in the back of a chapel one Sunday last November, Janice Kapp Perry intently watched the Primary sacrament meeting program presented in the Freedom 3rd (Spanish) Ward, Provo Utah South Stake. Rather than the melodies and lyrics, the visiting LDS songwriter focused on the five individuals quietly taking turns accompanying the Hispanic children as they sang the program's eight hymns and Primary songs, including one of Sister Perry's own compositions, "I Love to See the Temple."
    Published: Friday, March 13, 2009

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Elder Anderson turns a century; lauded as 'a true model to follow'

Published: Saturday, Nov. 25, 1989

In commemoration of his 100th birthday, Elder Joseph Anderson was honored at a reception Nov. 17 by the General Authorities of the Church, who praised him as a man who has been "true blue to the...