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Show Grace CALENDAR Brown Theatre in the old J.C Penney building on Main Street in Springville. (Smothers said that the church has carried major renovations to the building and plans to purchase it in Continued from Dl based Christian church affiliated with Tentmakers Bible Mission. Smothers said that Grace Bible, which he founded 10 years ago, is preparing to become a fully indechurch next year.) pendent, After a year or so, however, the clothing swap ministry had become spiritually stagnant, Snyder, 33, wanted to have it be more meaningful, but couldn't figure out how. She presented the problem to Smothers, who suggested that the excess clothing, along with a large amount of food that was available from a member of the congregation, be given away free to needy persons in the community. "We're at a place where we're functioning just fine in and of ourselves,'' said Smothers. The next logical step, he said, was to become a source of help for people in the community. That was the beginning of SaturdayGrace, which kicked off in October. The first Saturday was a slow one: a woman showed up and took a coat, a few other clothing items and a box of food. That was it. "I was very discouraged," Snyder said, "because we had put all of this work in and then 2008.) Donna Fisher, a 4 old mother of three who's been working to publicize Saturday Grace, said that the congregation keeps the clothing sorted into items for men, women, girls, boys and infants. "On Saturday, we open the doors," she said. "Whoever shows up is who have died If you include something written by someone other than yourself, make sure the copyright is not still in force andor that you have permission to share the information. After all, what you have may be part of the 75 percent of genealogical information I need and vice versa. Uploading documents of every kind to Footnote.com is encouraged. Marriage certificates, wills, naturalization records, military records, Bible records, any kind of document is welcome there. If you have Mormon Welsh ancestry, check for your names. You can submit additional information to Ron Dennis at welshmormon yahoo.com. Take a minute to peruse the books, journals and writings related to the Welsh Saints. Look at the pictures and imagine your ancestors' pictures there, submitted by you. Check the links for even more information. If you have Welsh ancestry with the surname Evans, you may also www.welsh-mormonhistory.o- Let the Sunshine in! Payson. Info: 465-247; CHRONIC FATIGUE: Support group meets 7 p.m. second Wednesday, City Council chambers, 50 S. www.audubon.6rg. Main St, Springville. SUNDAY 7-- 9 489-112, THURSDAY GROUP: Discussion group meets METAPHYSICAL p.m. Sundays. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS: Unravel the debt dilemma, 7 p.m. Thursdays, American Fork. Peace and Prosperity group. 770-3- 1 39. www.debtorsanony-mous.or- g. 225-456- MONDAY clothing?" y TOPS: TOPs support group meets 9:45 a.m. Wednesdays at Flying J Travel Plaza, 840 N. Main, BIRO COUNT: Join Utah County birders for annual Christmas Bird Count, Dec 22, Provo. 224-611- DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING: Basic digital photography and scrapbooking techniques taught 8 p.m. Thursdays, 1 86 W. Center St, Orem. These are two week classes. $50. 224-471- DETOX: DrSPatricia Henrie teaches detox psycoeduca-tion- al ongoing group sessions, for eight weeks. $355. 787-985- 5:30-- 7 p.m. Mondays ALL PRO DAD: Dads learn to be better dads and husbands and bond with their children, 6:30 a.m. every second Thursday, LDS Church, 1450 S. 800 East, Orem. Meet for breakfast, bond with kids. $1 $2. 7654334.www.allprodad.com. WEDNESDAY ELDER QUEST: Lone Peak High School Chamber Choir sings at the Elder Quest luncheon, 12:30 p.m. Dec 12, Northampton House, 1 98 W. 300 North, Wal-Mar- Continued from Dl CLASS: Drs. John and Janet Garrett (LMTs) dasses to all agesabilities 8:30-9:3- 0 teach Tai-Ca.m. Wednesdays, Mapleton City Center, 125 W. 400 North, Mapleton. Free. 836-282- f www.familysearch.org. 240-495- 0. open-hande- 423-107- TAJ-C- FAMILYSEARCH: New FamilySearch Indexing program offered 9:30 a.m.-3:4- 5 p.m. Dec 15, Family History Library, Temple Square, Salt Lake City. FreeSOl ) It's important to Grace Bible that Saturday Grace be completely with no strings attached. "We want a ministry that's said Smothers. "Here's some food, here's some clothing." Smothers said that the church mostly wants to act as the "hands and feet" of Jesus. There's another motivation, however, that he thinks is important. "You treat other people as you want to be treated," he said. "If I'm down and out, how awesome would it be to go get free food and $13dirm. DISCOVERY READING: Hear stories about animals and nature read by professional storyteller, 1 1 a.m. Wednesdays, Monte L Bean Museum. Free. CANDLEMAKING: Remember simpler holiday seasons and make candles and punched-ti- n lanterns, 1 0 a.m. Dec 1 5, Camp Floyd State Park, Fairfield. Play Civil Ward period children's games and enjoy museum and Stagecoach Inn. $2. (801) 768-893- welcome." want to check the databases plus the Elizabeth Evans biography on Itsallrelatives.us which will soon be linked to this site. Should you have a biography, journal, autobiography, reminiscence, etc., of a member of The Church of Jesus Saints Christ of Latter-dawho was a contemporary of Joseph Smith Jr., please consider donating a copy to American Fork. SATURDAY Everyone involved is aware that there might not be enough donations of clothing or food to keep pace with demand. Much of the food needed to get the program off the ground was contributed by church members. nothing happened." "We have been fortunate enough to have The church posted fliers around Springville, a lot of people donate from their own cupplaced an ad on KEYY, the local Christian radio station that can be heard at AM 1450, and boards," Khan said. . Khan said that local retail stores, including encouraged members to spread the word. The t, have already pitched in. Ream's and extra effort had a noticeable effect. In NovemShe's hoping to get other food stores on board, ber, Saturday Grace got swarmed. and said that Saturday Grace has also made "We ran out of food at noon," Snyder said. "We were able to help out more than 100 arrangements to distribute food for the Utah Food Bank. For the rest, the congregation is people." And the congregation still intends to help relying on donations from people in Utah Valley or surrounding communities who have people who didn't get food in November. Lola excess food or clothing. Khan, a retiree who moved with her husband And also on assistance from a higher source. to Utah Valley from Chicago a couple of years Springville resident Genia Bertelsen, 34, is ago, manages the food collection and distribution and said that people who didn't get food in a mother of three who helps distribute food at November were given a voucher to redeem in Saturday Grace. If Saturday Grace were "up to people," she December. said, "then obviously things would go wrong Khan, 53, said that anyone who has a vouchand people would be disappointed. When it's er will be sure to get food: "We already have those boxes set aside for them." something that God is doing, then as long as Between third Saturdays, clothing is stored we continue to seek him, and listen to him, then he will do whatever he wants to do in bins at Grace Bible Church, which inhabits the space formerly occupied by the Little through this ministry." Kerr Saturday, December ft 2007 HERALD DAILY D2 FYI CLASS: Age 11- 15 year olds learn child care, home safety, ages and stages, First Aid9 a.m.-- 3 p.m. Dec. Mountain Valley Chapter, American Red Cross, 865 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo. $50. 373-858- 0. Refuge, info desk, bookstore, education programs, open houses. (435) 734-643httpbearriver. fws.gov. EMERITI ALUMNI: httptfredcrossutorg. CPRFIRST AID: Certified course covers childinfant CPR, choking, Firstjfeid, injury prevention and tips, p.m. Dec 17-1- 8 then Jan. 8, 10, Mountain Valley Chapter, American Red Cross, 865 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo. $45. are preserved, you can help get more records to others even if you have absolutely no genealogical or historical experience. You can volunteer for any of the following activi- httpJredcrossutorg. 373-858- WHITE RHINO: Third largest species is southern white rhino; see it 10 a.m.-- 9 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m.-- 5 p.m. Sat through Jan. 31, Monte L Bean Museum, BYU campus. Free. ties: Volunteers to index the mountain of records held by the Genealogical Society of Utah are sorely needed. Anyone can volunteer at www. FAMILY HISTORY: Need 10,000 volunteers to read English and Spanish to index Mexican, Argentine and other Latin American records for Internet Register familysearchindexing. org. NATURALIST: Host nature programs, children's art hikes and more, Sundance Nature Center. 223-404- Listen to children read at a week or an hour a day. Sponsored by Retired and Senior Volunteer Program for age t5 and over. 229-382- SENIORS: MUSEUM ACTIVITIES: Museum of Peoples and Cultures, 700 N. 100 East BYU campus, Provo. FHE and Mutual groups may tour museum: 422-002mpcbyu.edu. faniifysearchindexing.org. Right now people with Spanthe creators of ish language skills are urgentthe site at BOAPBOAP.org. ly needed for the 1900 Mexican census. And those with Additional sites are in the works at mormonstudies. family history experience can byu.edu where donations are volunteer to be arbitrators. Because every record inwelcome, particularly Irish Mormon records and Bridger dexed for FamilySearch is indexed twice with any differValley, Wyo., records. Those with Basque ancestry ences resolved by an arbiter, should note that a partnerthe results are 98 percent accurate a phenomenal pership between the University of Nevada and BYU is creatcentage. Other database companies farm their indexing out ing a database of Basques in to China, the Philippines and the United States from 1850 onward. Keep this in mind, so Bangladesh to do only once. So volunteer to keep the acyou can donate materials. If you have not found an ap- curacy at 98 percent. Anyone can volunteer, at any age, of propriate place to share your documents after checking any religious persuasioa Other services you can out the above sites, Ancestry, com and WorldVitalRecords. provide that will eventually ' land information on the Intercom, please email me to net include assisting with the make arrangements for their 2010 census, volunteering at preservation. There is now historical societies of all kinds no reason why Aunt Fanny's and writing your own family or Uncle George's or histories. boxes of If all of us share the gematerials and disks should be thrown away. Their important nealogical information on our documents can be put on a computers with others, we Web-sit- e to benefit alL (Some and they, may just find 75 percent of the data we need. of many Kerr records were rescued from the garbage can I LaRae Free Kerr can be when a relative died; don't reached at Itsallrelatives let it happen to you. Get your data on the Web!) sfcn.org and at Itsallrelatives.us. If all your family records CALM: Support group for those leav- local school, an hour gmail.com. AMERICAN FORK LIBRARY: Offers lecture series, preschool programs, "Mom and Me activities and the "Teen Thing." Movie night is 6:30 p.m. the first Monday each month. 763-307- emerrellmountainland.org. at Missionary Training Center of the LDS Church include hosting, providing practice in lessons, tutoring in reading, parkinglug-gagctessistanand more. Service needed 2-hours per week. Dec. 11, 14, 18. Orem Public 1 0. Free. for YOUTH: Utah Department of Workforce Services has higher HELP education funding available for . WORKSHOP: Writer's workStudio of Utah has shop beginning Jan. 8, Noah's, 644 N. 200 West Lindon. www. WRITERS thewritersstudio.org. 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