Show ff I I p I VI IHVOM Pag 18— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday August 12 1999 Too worth to tourists early draws gauge Palmyra of faith-base- d programs Continued from Page 17 four books in the church's scriptural canon By Bob Von Sternberg Forced by persecutors to Minneapolis-S- t move away Smith and his followers steadily growing in number stopped in Ohio and progressed on to Missouri and Illinois where Smith was killed by a mob in 1844 The church's main body was then led by Brigham Young to Great Salt Lake in Utah where it flourished For all the buildings in “historic Mormon country” is the Grandin Building in Palmyra where the first 5000 copies of The Book of Mormon were printed And a short distance from the log cabin sits the while frame house where the Smith family lived from 1825 to 1829 It is being remodeled to restore its rudimentary look Later additions like the porch and gable will be removed whitewashed wood walls are replacing plaster and fireplaces are being reinstalled A cooper's shop and a bam will he erected nearby Across the road an undulating path leads into the Sacred Grove dense with black walnut cherry oak maple locust birch Leaves plait the ground like a carpet and trails wood-chi- p meander deep into the woods “It's just awesome in there" says Gina Loveless 21 accompanied by her parents from American Fork Utah "You want to whisper and you think of the moment” “It makes you feel closer to God" interjects her mother VaLcta But among the religious history buffs strolling through the grove was a skep- - faith-base- But even though both Vice President A1 Gore and Texas Gov George W Bush recently made the work of these groups a centerpiece issue of their presidential bids the candidates' enthusiastic embrace amounts to little more than an act of well faith AP photo One of the original 5000 copies of the Book of Mormon right is on display at the Grandin Building in Palmyra NY On the the left is a Bible from the same era Among the rehabilitated buildings in “historic Mormon country” is the Grandin Building where the first 5000 copies of the book were printed tic Robert Hawkins 41 a librarian in Youngstown Ohio who converted to Catholicism at age 13 ‘Tm an absolute papist” he says with a wry grin “When I read the Book of Mormon I don't read ancient literature — what I end up readnovel 1 ing is a know so much but I still don't buy it” The Mormon sites have been drawing visitors for over a century but have become vastly more popular since the 1960s Each July since 1935 the church's beginnings are retold in an epic high-tec- h outdoor religious pageant on Hill 19th-centu- ry Missionaries Cumorah featuring a costumed cast of 600 “Why it's beautiful to us is this is where it all began” says Elder Rand Clark 74 who trained Navy recruits in World War II and didn't get a chance to volunteer for Mormon missionary work before embarking on a career Some 60000 Mormons currently serve as missionaries Although most arc in their late teens and early 20s a small but growing number are coming forward later in life “1 think it's kind of neat that people of our age look around for ways to sene” says Mrs Baird UTAH 7523072 Lynn and Ruth Stokar of Logan recently returned from the Missouri Independence Mission They speak at 11:30 am Sunday In the Logan 29th Ward 792 N 500 East Robby Thompaon son of Ferris and Carolyn O Thompson of Clarkston accepted a call the the England Briston Mission He speaks at 10:50 am Sunday in tha Clarkston 2nd Ward 25 E 100 South He Center Sept enters the Missionary 1 Jeremy Cade Wooden son of Zan and Vicki Longstroth of Mendon recently returned from the Taiwan Kaohsiung Mission He speaks at 9 am Sunday in tha Mendon 3rd Want Jesse Younker son of Doug and Vicki Younker of North Logan has accepted a call to servo in the West IDS Mission Indies English-Speakin- g He will speak Sunday at 10:45 am in the North Logan 5th Ward 2730 N 800 East He enters the Missionary Training Center Aug 25 Anecdotes abound about the effectiveness of religious groups fighting poverty and crime but there's scant hard evidence about just how widespread these efforts are nationwide — much less how effective they are There's a similar dearth of data on whether they do a better or worse job than traditional government programs and whether they're more or less expensive than government programs is anyone's guess "Lots of anecdotes are out d there about programs hut the questions are just now being asked how effective they are" said Kirsten Gronbjcrg a professor of philanthropic studies affiliated with Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy “It's still too early to say much" And presidential candidate and members of Congress aren't alone jumping on the faith-basbandwagon: a recent nationwide faith-hase- ed But beyond the ignorance about the current state of faith-base- d social work recent experience shows that it might be tougher for those groups to live h expectations up to the many have 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