Author name: Scott Gordon

When Mormon hands helped to keep Lagos clean

If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been  a breeding place for mosquitoes. This is besides  some discarded items at the back of Ayinke ward that left the hospital looking unkempt. Thankfully this unhealthy eyesore has disappeared since a three-hour sanitation exercise

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Randall Silas – New Bishop in Hattiesburg MS

Silas 1st African-American to hold position (in Hattiesburg MS) Hattiesburg American August 29, 2009 Randall Silas is the new bishop of a Hattiesburg congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… …Silas said he hopes his new position will encourage other blacks to explore the Mormon church, but “I would hope that no

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President Monson Visits President Obama, Presents Family History

On July 20, 2009 when President Thomas S. Monson met with President Barack Obama, it marked only the fourteenth time when an LDS Church president had a meeting in the White House with the President. See … http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721president.html Family History presented …  http://www.ldsmag.com/churchupdate/090721prophet.html

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Electa Briggs Williams – Pioneer from VT to NY to MI to IL & West

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090607/NEWS01/906070372/0/FEATURES12 … At the age of 18, Electa followed her father to western New York, where he had remarried. Within a year, she married an older man who died before her their first child was born. Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was one of several religious leaders competing for converts in New York at this time,

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LDS Trumpeter from Atlanta to Philadelphia to Kenya

Please see www.StanfordThompson.com to follow the career of a wonderful LDS Trumpeter. Stanford Thompson is an Eagle Scout from Decatur, Georgia who comes from a talented and faithful musical family. He was the featured soloist with the Atlanta Symphony at Ebenezer Baptist Church for the Black Arts Festival on July 24, 2005 (coincidentally on Mormon Pioneer Day). He continues to be a

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Marvin Perkins Answers Questions for Times and Seasons

Marc Bohn, May 20, 2009 Marvin Perkins has graciously agreed to answer a few questions from Times & Seasons. Brother Perkins is a Latter-day Saint music producer who is currently the Public Affairs Co-chair for the Genesis Group and who has worked to nurture understanding between African Americans and Latter-day Saints … Part 1 http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/05/12-questions-for-marvin-perkins-part-one/

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