Hello again, everyone! For the first time in a while, the Church has shared a breaking news development not related to temple events. Through the Church News, the first ever Worldwide Youth Music Festival will be held virtually. The festival is set to be held on Wednesday July 29. An invitation to participate virtually is being extended to youth worldwide, including friends of other faiths. The festival will follow the theme "Hear the Voice of the Lord", in conjunction with President Nelson's invitation to "Hear Him!" Featuring musical performances and testimonies from youth around the world, the event will also include brief remarks from a few Church leaders.
The event, being prerecorded, will be 40 minutes in length, and air at 6:00 PM MDT, through Youtube's "Strive to Be" page, Facebook's Church of Jesus Christ page, and through the Church's official Broadcasts page.The article inviting youth to participate in this event shares quotes from the Young Women General President, Sister Bonnie H. Cordon, and the newly-called Young Men General President, Brother Steven J. Lund. I am grateful to have been able to find out about this development, and to have been able to pass it along here to you all.
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Friday, July 10, 2020
BREAKING NEWS: Churchwide Youth Music Festival to be Held Virtually for the First Time Ever
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Hello again, everyone! The latest edition of "This Week on Social" has been published:
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This week's installment, another brief one, included posts from the following general leaders: Elders David A. Bednar, Gary E. Stevenson, and Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; and Sisters Michelle D. Craig and Becky Craven, who serve respectively as First and Second Counselors in the Young Women General Presidency.
Thanks again, all!
And the Utah Area Presidency has provided a formal recommendation that all Utahns, especially Latter-day Saints, wear masks while out and about in public:
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Thanks again to you all.
Hello again, everyone! Church News editor Sarah Jane Weaver has written a new article focusing on how Relief Society is a "circle of sisters" worldwide:
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And with the 90th anniversary concert for "Music and the Spoken Word" now just one week away, I find it hardly coincidental that the episode that will be rebroadcast this weekend is the one in which the "Spoken Word" focuses on that monumental milestone, given as it was originally on the Sunday closest to when that 90th anniversary milestone was reached:
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2020-07-11/music-and-the-spoken-word-dawning-of-a-brighter-day-188693
Additionally, by this time next Saturdy, ground will have been broken for the Feather River California Temple by Elder Scott D. Whiting, First Counselor in the North America West Area Presidency and one of the assistant executive directors of the Temple Department. My thanks once again to you all.