could morning and welcome to mosaic. humanitarian service is the theme this morning. it was albert einstein that said if you want to find a purpose in life, and in life he need to know how to serve. so today we have a colleague and friend of mine dr. marilyn right that's come to say a word about service. welcome. now what does it mean to service. and it most people have an

understanding of the ways that they volunteer in that they seek to lift others up the could be anything from helping at a soup kitchen or helping the homeless for donating money toward its her charitable organization that you really believe in. think there is an attitude of charity that goes with serving and then it kind of issue on to your behavior. i think humanitarian service is another synonym for social justice. it tends to focus on the social needs and our communities and around the world that everyone is i think becoming more and more conscious of. your big project now is the blood drive. now what got too involved?

last year it sort of came out of print for two clergymen the bishop the oakland diocese here and one of the mormon leaders and the oakland area and they were kind of in the huddle meeting trying to figure out what that we could have a wealth a small army of people that want to serve. /to the high ticket of the meeting that perhaps giving blood would be a very inappropriate form of service. so i was involved in from the very beginning in organizing an interfaith based project so it wasn't just catholics and mormons and was reaching out to all the interfaith council is in the area and at least the bay area and they teamed up with the

american red cross says the vehicle of receiving that blood. there is the deficits of blood here in the bay area. i'm in the process of moving to fairfield in the city rather last week or so at this here and this was not the intent the red cross told us it was the largest faith based blood drop that they'd ever had and arguably the american red cross history suggests even across the country. and that wasn't the intent but what we're doing this year since was a huge success. everyone just was doing such a great job. it was all during the month of july which is of the hardest times to find donors. vacations everyone taking off and there's not regular blood drives offered so we as the faith community said this is no

problem weaken to this and will take the most difficult month and see what we can do. we end up having an amazing turn out it was inspiring to see people normally afraid of needles arm but that they really were loving being a part of something bigger. this year it's about four times the size or at the base of the monterey diocese that a moderate. so we have right to date we have 80 + drive second organized in of fair rate differs number of churches and faiths and everyone is gearing up for july. and encouraging people to wear red ties and sox this is what they gave me last year for of the blood sweat and tears that went into organizing. " to talk more about that

in fairfield, i move there. police joined us with dr. marilyn right involved in service and interfaith committee that have metra through inches great work.

welcome back we have an additional guest with us are glad to welcome run a clean. now both of you are latter-day saints in that time if to the interfaith community that's tell us little about your face and involvement that has inspired me to be involved in the community in interfaith gathering is.

the police say that i've been a member of the church for 27 years and i joined as an adult and the thing that impressed me the most about how we practice is our focus of family values and our focus on living within your means and other aspects of how we practice and for makes previous experience at the deep-seated feeling that would be of great use to tickets to the community. the church believes him being a part of the fabric of the commute in which is located and i felt as an african-american i could serve my community well and oakland if i would give the of the interfaith efforts that would promote some of the values

that we hold. for example living within your means. about abstinence from drugs and alcohol we call that our values regarding open to our bodies. and always been measured and reason and purposeful and how you're living your life and a controlling all aspects of your life to the extent the toucan because there's much within our control. house rain this morning and article written on the front page of last sunday's new york times about mitt romney and not focusing on him as a candidate but him as a practicing member of our church.

and the things that they brought out for how he was teaching sunday school. have heat and assessed that the principles that in the crossbow, in the bible, in the book of mormon, our principles we need to apply in our daily lives. he was challenging those in his class as to how to apply those principles. i think that goes a long way toward the measure of bus as members of our church. that we attempt to practice what we steady and learn from the gospel. let's look more than a minute but i was wondering when i read also was that he put a lot of emphasis on helping the poor and the needy. in reference to what he's

saying there is a peculiarity in tryst almost an obsession right now and what mormons are all about and what makes them tick out of the presidential candidacy. and i think to understand the latter-day saints you really have to you can understand a lot of them by simply observing, if you observe latter-day saints to see they're very engaged in the community and in service and within their own faith community as well. and they think that to understand what makes cesspits motivated, part of it is cultural that is mormon and some of it this theology. and for some people they love separating the two. to us it's really one in the same because our lives are organized daily and the principles that i really hold a deep.

ron mentioned family and its huge with you and you have what 18 connected we talked about this was happily single for the majority of my life until almost four years ago who was teaching at pepperdine university at a private practicing psychology in southern california. just a rain gauge in the world. and then out of a bet and made with a girlfriend many years ago that have never turn down someone that she the analyst some and i should meet mr. right came along. i was marin simpson and low and behold a must be dense because i literally needed a misdirect to show up but there he was and there was absolutely no question and that was a huge prayer felt decision that this was the person that have a is to be with.

and up the left everything in out in the bay area and went from been some go to the mother of six grown children and 18 grandchildren so i think to look pretty good for being a grandmother of eight team. and another one of the shows will the to shop and talk about that. you mentioned your in psychology and your attorney ron so the to practice practice contracts. negotiate information technology for contracts. in just a word about family, i have long believed that part of a major issue that we have in our communities if you noticed just the crime for example that

one of the real strengths of controlling happens in our neighborhood starts with in the home. i grew up in kansas city kansas i had to answer to any adult who had that happened to be home during the day knowing they would watch out for when i was doing for was acting correctly. and reported to grandparents and if i was really at of bounds to discipline me on the spot in that neighborhood responsibility is something that seems to have broken down and we just don't have it. let's come back to that because family is key to not only the mormons and the latter- day saints but for an entire community so please join us in the next segment.

at welcome back. we left off talking about family with ron and i was the connected to humanitarian service. and i think that when you start talking about family what we're really meaning to save his that the example set by the mother and father with than home and to the traditional nuclear family are instrumental in what you've learned as they grow. and what they see you do is what it will also carry forward. and that's why as a partner role in being leaders is to demonstrate things like public service reaching out to others

because that's also very important part of the fiber cartridge and how we practice. her youth put it to use of something that they learned and it's expected of them and even eastern with their young men and women who go off in search missions as most people know they look around with the badges of. i think that a secure a victim example is to confined if giving of oneself to service and the building of our church and our practice and reaching out to others. and very impressed with their commitments and an opportunity to breach their an interfaith service last thanksgiving two years ago. your theme was rejoiced in the way that even the life is quite heavy and very challenging

at times there are reasons when you have faith that gives hope and less up and inspires. to give a clear message that every latter-day saints was willing to say amen i appreciate both of you coming to my serviced this past sunday and you were welcome been received and even got a hand. i think with a thin talking about the more inclusive and do think people are finding out more on what mormon is and it is an exception you want. one thing i think our faith is loaned to other people's us and action with us is that they've maybe don't have enough of an understanding of who we are. because we have been intensely

engaged committee of faith though we are so busy in the one thing to finish to understand about latter-day saints is that they're very busy because there's no paid clergy and our faith so we have water considered calling its and very committed to. it's part of the ethic of serving. then there is additional take jobs that we have to earn a living and pay the bills and taxes and then there's also such an ethic that description of the base enacted 25 the scriptures of and as close to the idea of let you light shine the foreman

that the may see you could work some glorify your father which is in heaven. so there is a commitment to been getting back to god in our mind through how we treat and serve those around us. so there's a very full schedule for most latter-day saints usually leery are late to the services. our surprise to reap three hours and church on sundays is that standard? absolutely. that has changed it was a three hour block winner was going to church but in a separated get out to three separate meetings and hour of each we have the main sacraments service for catholics of my need communion with the taken a sacramento new covenants and then there is a relief society in the men and women cannot have their own services and the children have

their own sunday school service and then there is a sunday school where the princess altogether. there's different allocation of our worst of worship services on sunday. to convert were you able to adjust to that? let me say that it was abrupt. because not only the fact that took the most that took the most just and in my own personal life was the fact a year expected to give of yourself to this service to serve others and to serve the lord. to use christ and his life as an example of how you approach your worship within church in the being compassionate toward others and instructing others and called upon to to serve in a

calling and that means you have to give of yourself to others. one of my colleagues right now addition to being a public affairs and be with you this morning is that i am a special assistant to the bishop and there are several people that i deliver food to recreate tomorrow i will have the pleasure and privilege of driving to our storehouse and picking up food orders this people and it's nothing that it makes you feel better than doing that. nothing makes you feel better than doing that. with its instils and your whole mormon community that you serve in kiev and support of a family. welcome back to the next segment to look at the book your broccoli.

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of the resources for the latter-day saints mormons believe in what? this many resources it's considered one of the but once it does come at thinking maryland for preen the resources to an excellent resource that we could look at. this is a friend of mind of wouldn't say that it was the standard minimum reference is more for the general population estimates so much curiosity about mormons. i lot of what we enjoy is to just put a face for many people here about mormons but they may

not have had to match interaction or if it did the probe but didn't ask much about their religious faith so this is a tremendous book based on lot of research polling throughout america views that a typical person might have of mormons. and to correct misperceptions because there's a lot of them. all the resources go to salt lake city isn't that correct new offerings and then goes out to the other sources than needed. support the church distributes tibullus the

inequities that may exist between economic was in the trenches and the turning part of its members. i know that there is a popular term redistribution of wealth so a lot of people might assume that latter-day saints people assume that we are extremely conservative and perhaps very conservative. end on the hold lot of days inns is as a culture her very moderate and not only political stance of very generous generous and giving it as traditionally might be seen as more of the social wing of the political america. and all are fast offering sway fast once a month to the fast for two meals and make a donation in addition to 10 percent of tidings that would go towards those that need.

so that money her typing if you're considered dumb player than are least anderson different crease and as we were talking before about it's kind of a private offering that is given not the passing of the plate. he mentioned mitt romney the u.s. to have harry reid and morris back of my time you have the broad spectrum am and to understand a theology doesn't tell us which wing of the political spectrum have a stake to being committed to civic engagement and the communities. it's great to have it on the program and the time flies.

i want to thank from joining us i will see you at the blood drive in fairfield in july. thanks for joining us think you have a really good view i misquoted earlier had said albert and said it was albert splicer that set a few of the purpose of life learn to surf.