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Show L h! i ' !r w - t -.. . -S x. - ." -X .-F $ - T"r -.J-f ' ? ... - .. .-. j - - a -- r : 3 -- - : ;l. X t ... ... - - J iiMHiit!ii;:i-: - ,-,V vm- ;7Wi!S!i??,1 t - 'y-w; . . -f''r- j X - . - --TV L - '-" L L ' Jfy . - X tf,-HH- . - - fa ijwt mmm am w Lfr y w,,, wrtfays- w "f T " - : - V 1 - ' ' - " 1 - - - .V i - - , , o- - H - .- v I i I - . . m -' - " -" b v tut -' ilj L .. d .rr'. j'X. n '' . Z !v.i,0.i jt." - r, .' .Vl.' 'J.h-H. 'I-Vd. . J' j j IV.lOt 'n. ' IWlJltlUBfct rnu-- - - - - . - - -- BK. Church equalizes costs for single missionaries Missionary contributions will be made to the bishop and remitted through the Church Finance Department to respective mission presidents. Each mission president will then distribute necessary funds to cover individual service-related expenses. In all cases the mission president retains complete discretion discre-tion to use the money in accordance with his understanding of the needs of the mission. Some 44,000 full-time missionaries, mis-sionaries, approximately 70 percent of them from the United States and Canada, now represent the church, assigned to 256 missions worldwide. Churches in the Davis County area are gearing up for the Christmas holiday season with concerts, con-certs, and choirs celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Several of these type of events will take place at the historic Bountiful LDS Tabernacle, located in downtown Bountiful. Citing ' ' a great and growing disparity in the cost of missions in various areas of the world," the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acted to equalize contributions required to maintain a missionary. "We express our sincere appreciation ap-preciation to all who contribute generously in time and money to missionary service, ' ' the First Presidency said. "This service, given in response to a divine commandment, com-mandment, has, from the earliest days of the church, involved individual in-dividual and family sacrifice. "Such sacrifice, on the part of families and others, has been willingly will-ingly made in the past and must continue to be the basis of our worldwide missionary program." Effective Jan. 1, 1991, the amount required to cover the service-related expenses of a single missionary called from the United States or Canada will be $350 U.S., or $400 Canadian monthly, regardless of where the missionary serves. The First Presidency made the announcement in a letter mailed to church officers throughout the United States and Canada. Some missions presently cost as little as $100 per month per single missionary and others as much as $750, placing a highly disproportionate dispropor-tionate burden on some families and wards, the First Presidency said. The change will not apply to missionary mis-sionary couples. Under the new procedure, the ward bishop will be responsible to see that funds are available to meet the requirements of missionaries called and sent from his ward. Funds will come, as in the past, from three sources: contributions which the individual missionary may make; contributions by parents, families and friends; and contributions by ward members generally who will be urged to contribute con-tribute to the ward missionary fund as well as to the general missionary fund. |