Greetings on this Sunday morning.
Oh, how we miss seeing you in person on a regular basis at church. As a stake presidency we have been treasuring a new approach to conducting counseling and temple recommend interviews via video phone calls. Through these opportunities to “see” the saints we experience your strong faith and testimony, and your love of God and neighbor. The strength of the saints through this challenging time is something we will long remember.
There are so many comments in social media about what a memorable year this is. Some are over-the-top hyperbole. Some of the memes and comments are quite funny. Although humor can be a useful coping mechanism, let us never lose sight of seriousness of the issues we have been experiencing – literally life and death issues. The future is so much brighter if we unite in love as families, neighbors, as a church, and as a nation. The goodness of our country is only equal to the sum of the goodness of its people. On this Flag Day, let us each commit to be a positive contributing factor in the equation.
Our stake message for today is delivered by brother Greg McKeown of the Woodland Hills Ward. We believe that this timely message will motivate each of us to do a little better in working toward the oneness that Jesus desires for his followers (see John 17:23). We have also included a newsroom clip about president Nelson’s speech at the NAACP conference last July. We believe it will inspire you both as to the content, and the timing.
Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/Uwkv9g1uh5Y
Always yours,
The New Canoga Park Stake Presidency
Presidents Grasteit, Benning, and Payne
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