Rochester NY Area

Here’s to the memories of 2020! Wishing you a very happy new year!

Read Luke chapter 2 in the Bible and reflect on the angels promised peace on earth and good will to men at Jesus’s birth. You can read and ponder independently, you can read Luke 2 virtually with friends or family, or you can record a post of yourself reading a verse of scripture and tag a friend to read the next. Invite your friend to tag another friend to read the next verse... Try to get to verse 20! #LightTheWorld

One more collection day tomorrow for the Rochester Stake Youth Drop-Off Toy Drive, collecting toys for CURE Childhood Cancer Association! Thank you for all the donations dropped off and volunteers helping collect today! Consider donating anything that might benefit a family who has a child fighting cancerlast collection day is tomorrow, Sunday December 20th from 1:00-3:00pm at 1400 Westfall Road Parking Lot. Toys... Games Books Gas Gift Cards Grocery Gift Cards Restaurant Gift Cards Etc. #LightTheWorld #curechildhoodcancerassociation #curechildhoodcancer #toycollection #rochesterny #rocjustserve

What a year 2020 has been!

Many volunteers painted a home today to prepare for the arrival of a refugee family. Thank you to everyone who helped out! At times, COVID-19 has made volunteering and serving more challenging but it has also motivated creativity. This masked volunteer group organized themselves into 2-hr shifts to ensure small numbers and distancing in order to help make this house a little more comfortable.... Keep your eyes and hearts open for more ways to safely serve at justserve.org Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services House Painting

Help #LightTheWorld today by finding a way to make time for a child in your life. Read them a story today, whether in person, over the phone, or on social media! #LightTheWorld2020

Thank you for all your efforts to help #LightTheWorld this month! We hope you have felt uplifted as you’ve sought to spread that light. Consider how you can turn the challenge of lighting the world everyday into a New Year’s resolution for 2021

We so love and appreciate our connection with The Salvation Army Rochester, NY who do so much good for our community. Thank you for your valiant efforts this Christmas season and for all volunteers past and present who help spread that light. Consider donating to their cause this Christmas season #LightTheWorld

Today at Brigham Young University I shared a message about important issues of our day, including overcoming racism. Personal attitudes and official practices ...of racism are not consistent with the revealed word of God. We know that God created all mortals and we are all children of God. The challenge of racism is not a new one, but recent events have precipitated the current discussion. The shocking police-produced death of George Floyd in Minnesota last May was surely a trigger for nationwide protests in the United States, whose momentum was carried forward under the message of ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Of course Black lives matter! That is an eternal truth all reasonable people should support. Dear friends, let us all heed President Russell M. Nelson's call to repent, to change, and to improve. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can unite and bring peace to people of all races and nationalities. We who believe in that gospelwhatever our originsmust unite in love of each other and of our Savior, Jesus Christ. President Dallin H. Oaks Read full address here: https://bit.ly/34vQrBi Artwork: used with permission from the artist Amber Eldredge

Christmas is a season of light for a reason. Every ray points us toward the Light of the World, Jesus Christ. That is why we celebrate. He was born for you. Today’s challenge to help #LightTheWorld this Christmas season is to open up your Bible to John 8:12, take a picture, and post it to social media with a message about how you have found that Jesus Christ brings light into your life. We wish you a very Merry Christmas! #LightTheWorld2020

This video shows the very beginnings of food production, including food that arrived in Rochester as part of the #200in2020NY donation initiative --- An amazing process with so many giving hands involved all along the way! Thank you Latter-day Saint Charities for the food provided to those in need.

A wonderful way to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ is to help feed the hungry, just like He did. . This year many people have experienced financial hardships and other setbacks, and odds are, your local food bank is feeling the strain. Today’s challenge is to make a donation to a food bank, if you’re able, or to give a meal directly to someone in your life who could use it. #LightTheWorld . Here are some local Rochester food banks to consider:... Brighton Food Cupboard - A Program of Jewish Family Service . Community Food Cupboard of Rochester . Barakah Muslim Charity . St. Andrew's Food Cupboard Inc. . Greece Ecumenical Food Shelf . South Wedge Food Program . Cameron Community Ministries . Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf . House of Mercy (Rochester, New York) . New York State Community Action Angels . Geneseo/Groveland Emergency Food Pantry . Foodlink . The Salvation Army Rochester, NY

Foodlink is offering food distribution next week! Check out their post for more info and sign up via the link in the description for online registration

Keep these voting deadlines in mind if you are planning to vote by absentee ballot. VOTE!

There’s still time to take advantage of the FREE COVID test and flu shot clinic at one of our city churches! Mayor Warren received a general health screening ...as well as a flu shot yesterday at House of Prayer and Restoration Church as part of this initiative. Testing and flu immunizations are ONLY taking place TODAY, Oct. 16 and TOMORROW, Oct. 17 from noon - 7 p.m. at House of Prayer and Restoration Church located at 545 Hudson Ave. There is no cost to participants. For those who are insured, you're asked to bring your card to submit the claim.

REACH - Rochester Engaging in Action for the Chronically Homeless is looking for volunteers to organize and pack food boxes for local families in need. Times are flexible. Your help would be very appreciated! Check out the project: https://www.justserve.org//f2704df1-734d-4c49-b457-4a057bc... #justserve #rocjustserve #youcandosomething

All are invited!

All are welcome and invited to tune into General Conference- a live online broadcast where faith leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints share messages of hope, peace, love and Christ. Live sessions are available this Saturday and Sunday at 12-2p & 4-6p. Any questions? Feel free to ask!

It takes a community working together, bridging the gap of differences and finding common ground to lift and serve our fellow brothers and sisters. We love you, all our dear friends in the Rochester community! A sincere thank you to each and every one that helped in so many different ways with these massive donation efforts! South Wedge Food Program, Barakah Muslim Charity, Eastern Service Workers Association, Cameron Community Ministries, Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf, ...Three Heads Brewing, House of Mercy, New York State Community Action Angels, Brighton Food Cupboard, Geneseo/Groveland Emergency Food Pantry, Foodlink, Rotary Club of LeRoy, NY, Keeping Our Promise Inc. RAIHN - Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network #200in2020NY #rocjustserve #justserve

As we wrap up the #200in2020NY in the Rochester Area, we want to take a minute to highlight these recipient organizations and the invaluable support they provide the vulnerable within our community. We are grateful for their partnership as together we seek to relieve suffering. The goal of the #200in2020NY initiative is to both honor the 1820 birthplace of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and support our communities. Loving our neighbors is at the core of our... beliefs, and we’re so grateful to have the opportunity to serve our neighbors in New York. This has been a wonderful way to celebrate! This project took many hands united in effort as we redistributed 60,000 pounds of food. Thank you to every volunteer who joined together to provide service by sorting, loading, delivering, unloading and more. We look forward to future collaboration, projects and service with each of these organizations! #rocjustserve #justserve

The Church is donating 200 deliveries to food pantries and charities in New York state in 2020 to celebrate a special 200th anniversary. This years marks the 20...0th anniversary of the first appearance of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in Palmyra, New York, to Joseph Smith, prophet and first president of the Church. Food deliveries began in upstate New York last week, along with deliveries in the New York City area, and will continue for the next several weeks, culminating with the 200th delivery. A total of 800 tons of nonperishable goods will be delivered.