General conference special hosted by Mary Richards: How JustServe is blessing the world, one project at a time
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🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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For more than a year, Church News staff writer Mary Richards has written about JustServe.org, a free online platform that connects volunteers with service opportunities in their communities. In this general conference special edition of the Church News podcast, produced in connection with KSLNews Radio, Mary Richards talks with numerous guests about JustServe: Isabelle Harris, a high school senior from Heber, Utah, who started a JustServe Club at her school; Doraleen Taulanga, who uses JustServe in her calling with young adults in her Samoan speaking ward in Woods Cross, Utah; Wendy Tibbitts and her son, Joshua Tibbitts, who use JustServe to find service opportunities as a family; and Amy Dott Harmer, executive director at the Utah Refugee Connection, who uses JustServe to connect businesses and individuals looking to serve the refugee community.
The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.
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| 0:00.0 | There are so many beautiful opportunities out there. |
| 0:11.3 | So I don't think you should ever discount the skills, time, resources you have, and figure |
| 0:17.8 | out a way to make a difference with what you have, whether it's time, whether |
| 0:22.8 | it's resources, whether it's you're a magician, whatever it is, find a way to get engaged |
| 0:28.1 | and just serve as a beautiful resource for people that want to get engaged in the community. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the Church News, welcome to the Church News podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 0:52.5 | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints connects people across the globe to service opportunities with an inspired initiative called Just Serve. |
| 1:01.4 | Just Serve is a platform or a tool, an exchange that helps community organizations connect with volunteers and helps anyone who wants to serve connect with opportunities. |
| 1:12.7 | In this General Conference special edition of the Church News podcast, produced in connection with KSL News Radio, guest host Church News reporter Mary Richards, along with JustServe administrators and volunteers, share their experiences and the influence of JustServe. |
| 1:32.6 | By 2022, JustServe facilitated almost 131,000 volunteer projects around the world, writing letters, making blankets, collecting clothing, assembling hygiene kits, |
| 1:45.7 | delivering food, planting gardens, cleaning up neighborhoods. These service efforts began one by one |
| 1:51.8 | and snowballed into great blessings. Heath Bradley, the global manager of JustServe, spoke on the |
| 1:58.3 | church news podcast about what Just Serve is and how it works. |
| 2:02.1 | So Just Serve is a platform, a tool in exchange that essentially takes, on one hand, |
| 2:07.6 | organizations in the community that need help. So we have organizations that run the spectrum |
| 2:13.6 | from food pantry, soup kitchens, to organizations that need letters written to veterans |
| 2:19.6 | and have a service needs, and then we connect volunteers. And so if you want to volunteer, |
| 2:27.3 | you want to find something that would bring purpose and meaning something extra that you |
| 2:31.3 | can do this holiday season or during the year, something to teach your family how to build this habit of service. |
| 2:36.9 | You go on to Just Serve, onto the website or an app, you register, and then you can actually search out what is important to you. |
| 2:46.1 | I think that's really important to know that you can customize. |
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