050 Zion-Building Through Poverty-Elimination

Church History Matters

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Zion has been defined as God’s people being of one heart and one mind, dwelling together in righteousness, and having no poor among them. Since Joseph Smith’s day Latter-day Saints have made continuous efforts toward this Zion ideal, including not only assisting the poor and needy, but going even further to help them eliminate poverty from their lives by becoming self reliant. In this episode of Church History Matters we want to trace the fascinating story of our current Church system for helping the poor—beginning at its origins where it was serendipitously born of necessity in the mind of a Stake President amidst the Great Depression, to its current multi-pronged offerings where, though most of it goes unseen, it quietly blesses countless lives. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott from Church History Matters.
0:02.8	As we near the completion of this series,
0:04.8	we want to hear your questions about church finances.
0:07.9	In two weeks, we will be pleased to have
0:09.7	as our special guest to help us respond to your questions, Dr. Elizabeth Kewen, the lead historian at the Joseph Smith
0:16.2	papers for the Financial Records series.
0:19.3	Her research, among other things, has focused on the financial records of Joseph Smith,
0:24.0	including his bankruptcy proceedings, as well as NavaU controversies in general.
0:28.0	Dr. Kuin is well equipped to handle any question you might have
0:32.0	about all things financial in the Joseph Smith
0:34.7	era.
0:35.7	So please submit your thoughtful questions any time before February 22, 2024 to podcasts at
0:42.2	scripturecentral.org. Let us know your name. 2024 to podcasts at scripture central
0:43.1	dot org let us know your name
0:45.2	where you're from and try to keep each question as concise as possible when you
0:48.7	email them in that helps out a lot
0:51.1	okay now on to the episode.
0:55.0	Ayein has been defined as God's people being of one heart and one mind,
1:03.6	dwelling together in righteousness,
1:05.7	and having no poor among them.
1:08.4	Since Joseph Smith's Day,
1:09.9	Latter-day Saints have made continuous efforts
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