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Tall Man, Short Hair
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Date: January 26, 2015 03:56AM
Outreaches like this offer both proselytizing and PR opportunities for the church. Sometimes they can kill two birds with these outreaches.
The Presbyterians took note of some local LDS missionaries doing public service in their community, and they republished a nice write up from Peggy Fletcher Stack. The Mormons sure come off like just another denomination. The article makes the unbelieveable claim that, "The LDS San Jose Mission already had discontinued tracting. Mission leaders got the word three years ago from church headquarters in Salt Lake City: Find something else for these eager, young full-time missionaries to do.":
http://www.pcusa.org/news/2014/2/12/mormon-missionaries-find-work-meaning-community-se/Your outreach will probably find itself mentioned in your local paper highlighting the magnanimous outreach of the saints. That article will be preserved forever as proof of TSCC's generosity on pages just like this one:
http://www.ldstoday.com/home/search.php?search=homeless&searchOrder=oldestEdited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/2015 04:02AM by Tall Man, Short Hair.