During a historic 16-day tour of Africa on Aug. 16-31, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve dedicated Cameroon and Rwanda for the preaching of the gospel. In so doing, he became the first known apostle to ever set foot in either nation. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/gallery/57850/Dedication-blesses-two-African-nations.html
If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been a breeding place for mosquitoes. This is besides some discarded items at the back of Ayinke ward that left the hospital looking unkempt. Thankfully this unhealthy eyesore has disappeared since a three-hour sanitation exercise …
Silas 1st African-American to hold position (in Hattiesburg MS) Hattiesburg American August 29, 2009 Randall Silas is the new bishop of a Hattiesburg congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… …Silas said he hopes his new position will encourage other blacks to explore the Mormon church, but “I would hope that no …
On July 20, 2009 when President Thomas S. Monson met with President Barack Obama, it marked only the fourteenth time when an LDS Church president had a meeting in the White House with the President. See … http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721president.html Family History presented … http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721prophet.html
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090607/NEWS01/906070372/0/FEATURES12 … At the age of 18, Electa followed her father to western New York, where he had remarried. Within a year, she married an older man who died before her their first child was born. Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was one of several religious leaders competing for converts in New York at this time, …
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Every land has its pioneers, and there is no more remarkable story than Ghana’s Joseph W.B. Johnson who had formed ten congregations of believers long before the missionaries arrived. By Maurine Jensen Proctor http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721ghana.html
Our modern pioneers, forging the way in their own countries, are building the kingdom without wagons or handcarts. Join us on a poignant visit to a fledging ward in Ghana. A Photographic Essay by Scot Facer Proctor http://www.ldsmag.com/photoessay/090723nungua.html
Please see www.StanfordThompson.com to follow the career of a wonderful LDS Trumpeter. Stanford Thompson is an Eagle Scout from Decatur, Georgia who comes from a talented and faithful musical family. He was the featured soloist with the Atlanta Symphony at Ebenezer Baptist Church for the Black Arts Festival on July 24, 2005 (coincidentally on Mormon Pioneer Day). He continues to be a …
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“… Elder Amesimeku is from Ghana, Africa and has been serving in northeastern Georgia for about a year. Elder Halcomb arrived seven months ago from Gilbert, Arizona. …” http://www.gwinnettcitizen.com/0709/LDS_missionaries.html
Marc Bohn, May 20, 2009 Marvin Perkins has graciously agreed to answer a few questions from Times & Seasons. Brother Perkins is a Latter-day Saint music producer who is currently the Public Affairs Co-chair for the Genesis Group and who has worked to nurture understanding between African Americans and Latter-day Saints … Part 1 http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/05/12-questions-for-marvin-perkins-part-one/ …
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