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The Richmond Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held its third-annual Day to Serve event Sept. 21, completing several service projects to benefit organizations in the region.
About 350 members of the church and others from Henrico and surrounding counties participated in the event, during which participants:
• served a total of 70 man hours, cutting up plastic bags and crocheting them into mats for the homeless (a service planned by Boy Scout Hyrum Ashby as his Eagle Scout project);
• people donated blood through the Red Cross;
• made about 200 paracord bracelets to be sent in care packages through Operation Gratitude;
• assembled 10 nightstands and dressers for the furniture bank at CARITAS;
• made 125 cards for patients' families staying at the Reinhart House;
• assembled 60 waiting room kits for VCU Health;
• decorated cards with inspirational sayings to put around tissue packets for patients at Massey Cancer Center;
• helped sew 60 superhero capes for children staying at nearby hospitals;
• cut out 400 posterboard butterflies that the Children’s Museum of Richmond will use for school field trips.
Families were encouraged to participate together.
“Service is so important, but it’s hard to get my family out to serve; we just get so busy," said Jenny Heaton, who brought her family. "So, I’m grateful for people who organized this activity.”
Most attendees brought food to be distributed to those in need by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond.
The Carol Adams Foundation provided Child ID kits for 50 children that were at the event with their families, a process that helps recover the children if they ever go missing.
“Thank you for your service," state Senator Siobahan Dunnavant (R-Henrico) said. "I love what you are doing here, reaching out and helping the community in so many ways.”
