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🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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During the Christmas season — marked by celebrations of the birth and life of Jesus Christ — many turn their focus on serving others. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints connects people across the globe to service opportunities with an inspired initiative called JustServe. This episode of the Church News podcast features Heath Bradley, the global manager of JustServe, to talk about service this Christmas season and every day of the year.
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 | One of the things that gets me passionate and gets me excited about the Just Serve initiative is really to understand that as we look at the preparation for the return of our Savior, what are some of the conditions that we see in the scriptures that need to happen? |
0:22.3 | Peace, love, unity. The Just Serve initiative helps community. This is not just those that are |
0:28.9 | members of the church, but the whole human race come together in love, peace, and unity. |
0:35.4 | It breaks down any barriers. It breaks down how people feel. |
0:40.2 | Our differences really aren't differences as we serve hand in hand. I feel like this tool |
0:45.3 | will help the world prepare for the return of our Lord and Savior. |
1:00.2 | I'm Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the church news, and welcome to the church news podcast. |
1:06.7 | 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. As we began this episode of the Church News podcast, I want to wish all of our listeners a Merry Christmas. |
1:19.8 | This is a time of year as we celebrate the birth and life of Jesus Christ that so many of us turn our focus on serving others. |
1:29.3 | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints connects people across the globe to service opportunities with an inspired |
1:34.2 | initiative called Just Serve. This episode of the Church News podcast features Heath Bradley, |
1:40.0 | the global manager of Just Serve to talk about service this Christmas season and every day of the year. |
1:46.4 | Welcome, Heath, to the Church News podcast. |
1:48.7 | Happy to be with you. Thank you so much for having me. |
1:51.5 | Well, and for our listeners who don't know or aren't familiar with JustServe, can you give kind of an overview of what it is and how it works? |
1:59.2 | So JustServe is a platform, a tool, in exchange that essentially takes, on one hand, |
2:04.7 | organizations in the community that need help. |
2:08.0 | So we have organizations that run the spectrum from food pantry, soup kitchens, to organizations |
2:15.1 | that need letters written to veterans and have a service needs, |
2:19.8 | and then we connect volunteers. |
2:22.6 | And so if you want to volunteer, |
2:24.4 | you want to find something that would bring purpose and meaning something extra |
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