President Gordon B. Hinckley's Challenge and Promise

President Gordon B. Hinckley said in a

worldwide leadership training meeting:

“I am convinced there is no other organization anywhere to match the Relief Society of this Church.

If they will be UNITED and speak with ONE VOICE,

Their STRENGTH will be INCALCULABLE!”

10 January 2004, 20

Relief Society - A Restoration of an Ancient Form

RELIEF SOCIETY

“A Restoration of an Ancient Pattern”


Although the name may be modern date,

the institution is of ANCIENT ORIGIN.

We were told by our martyred prophet

that the same organization EXISTED

in the church ANCIENTLY.”

Eliza R. Snow

(Published in: “Daughters in My Kingdom”)

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Purpose of Relief Society

Women’s Conference, cosponsored by the Relief Society organization, was held on April 28 and 29 on the campus of Brigham Young University

Sister Julie Beck

General Relief Society President

Relief Society Has a Specific Purpose

“Why do we have a Relief Society president on the general and the local level?” Sister Beck said. “So we can have an organization. And we have an organization because we have a purpose. And when we have a purpose, there is an expected work and outcome.

Relief Society isn’t just a feel-good, get-together, let’s-enjoy-each-other, do-anything-anytime-anyplace-for-any-reason” organization, she said. “This is part of the Lord’s work.

Because the purposes of the Relief Society—to increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and help those in need (see Church Handbook 2: Administering the Church, 9.1.1)—have been determined by the Lord, the outcome is that “we will improve women individually and as a whole,” Sister Beck said. “… We’re not entertainers. This is the Lord’s business of salvation. That’s the business we’re in. We teach like the Savior taught, and we teach, and we teach. And we build the Lord’s kingdom.

We’re not about causes or advocacy groups,” she said. “We have an advocate. The Savior Jesus Christ is our Advocate with the Father, and we stand by Him, doing His great work for His great cause.”

Relief Society, she explained, helps women be organized under priesthood direction to move the Lord’s work forward. “We’re here to provide relief and rise above life and live more fully the gospel,” she said. “Relief Society is not a passé or worn-out organization. It is in its ascendency. It’s growing and developing and becoming world-class. ... We will increasingly provide an example to the world of how the Lord’s people should be organized and live.”

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