Sister Sharon Eubank - Compassion Is A Way of Life

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we are excited to welcome Sister Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency and director of Latter-day Saint Charities, as we learn about Alice C. Smith (1913-2006)-- a fascinating former Relief Society general board member, college educator, diplomat and missionary. We'll discuss Smith's relevant 1969 discourse about visiting teaching (or ministering, as it is known today) and hear Sister Eubank share her own thoughts on what Christlike service looks like, how we can minister with greater compassion and direction from the Spirit, and why we need to "replenish" and fill our own souls in order to best serve others. "Each year as the church grows, the need for visiting teachers (ministering sisters) will grow greater. What is their future? They will help combat the loneliness which plagues our world and impersonality of the big cities. They will look after the stranger, the widow, the orphan, the wounded, and distressed, after all sisters with concerned, loving care. ...They will help relieve physical, emotional, and mental suffering. They will aid the sinner and comfort the sorrowing. They will carry a message of gospel love to all our sisters throughout the world. As their warm, tender care spreads its web around the world, they will become a standard to the nations." - Alice C. Smith Full Discourse https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/at-the-pulpit/part-3/chapter-38?lang=eng&highlight=Smith%7CAlice

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0:00.0	50 years ago, Alice Smith, a member of the Relief Society General Board, stood in the Salt Lake
0:07.5	Tabernacle and foresaw the service and relief that millions of visiting teachers, as they
0:12.6	were known then, would provide as the church continued to grow throughout the world.
0:17.3	She promised that women engaged in Christ-like service would become a standard to the nations.
0:22.6	Today, we are thrilled to have Sister Sharon Eubank on the show to discuss the power of ministering
0:28.2	sisters as they're known today and other lessons we can learn from Alice Smith's message that was
0:33.7	given in 1969. Hello, and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the inspiring
0:41.0	stories and teachings of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:46.1	I'm Carly Geiman, and I'm here with Shailin back.
0:49.3	We are your co-hosts.
0:51.0	Thanks so much for joining us today.
0:52.7	We feel incredibly grateful to have on the show with us,
0:54.8	Sister Sharon Eubank of the Relief Society General Presidency. Welcome, Sister Eubank. Thank you. I'm really
0:59.8	glad to be here. Thank you so much for being here. We know you have a lot of assignments and
1:04.3	other important responsibilities, and so we're grateful for the time you're taking to be with us.
1:08.7	Just as a reminder, for those joining us for the first time,
1:11.9	in this season of the Latter-day Saint-Women podcast, we're learning from women featured in the book
1:16.1	at The Pulpit, which is a compilation of short biographies and discourses given by Latter-day
1:21.6	St. Women throughout our history. At the pulpit is a church publication that's available
1:26.1	online and in the gospel library app for free.
1:29.7	And we have had some really wonderful experiences this season of the podcast, sitting down with
1:35.0	both historians and prominent Latter-day Saint Voices to discuss women from our history and the lessons
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