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"No poor among them" is the aspiration. How to accomplish it is the question.
Original post:
https://twitter.com/magattew/status/1669366004831354880
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https://twitter-thread.com/t/1669366004831354880
She also posted this:
There are lots of stories about people accumulating and then using wealth to do good in the world. In most cases, wealth is generated by doing good in the first place. An invention creates wealth by making life easier, more productive, more efficient, etc.
Here's a good example.
Welfare and Self-Reliance Services Department Vision
We strive to follow Jesus Christ by embracing the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors.
We do this as we
▪ minister to temporal needs.
▪ build spiritual and temporal self-reliance.
▪ bless both givers and receivers.
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O yes, Saints of ancient days, are these things new to you? “NO,” they reply, “but just exactly what we used to have among us; and you who have read the New Testament know it is so.” If this, then, is “Mormonism,” it is nothing new, but simply that which should have been in the world in order to constitute true Christianity.
Now suppose, after all these have been established, the people organize on them; and that in the enjoyment and cultivation of them, this people unite in their efforts, both temporally and spiritually, to build up themselves as a people, and each other as individuals, in righteousness upon the earth; and the Spirit of the Lord God into which they were all baptized, should make them very great in union—in union of effort, in counsel, in operation, in fellowship, in temporal things in a great measure, and in spiritual things, by which they are all of one heart and mind to a great degree, and growing in it every day—is this something new, because it is “Mormonism?” Or is this the very doctrine which was inculcated in days of old by the Apostles of Jesus Christ?
It was the main object for which the Holy Spirit was given, that they might all grow up in union, in fellowship, in cooperation, in holiness in the Lord. No man who has read the New Testament, will say this is new, when we say that the great object of the Gospel is, that we may all become one in Christ Jesus—one in knowledge, and in the love and practice of the peaceable things of God. Is it anything new? No. Well, it is a part of what the world calls “Mormonism;” and I would to God it was more perfected among this people than it is.
(1850s1853, PPP Mormonism ¶29–31 • JD 1:303)
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BYU-Pathway is expanding worldwide. This exceptional article by Tad Walch discusses the impact on Africa.
https://www.deseret.com/2023/8/24/23826563/byu-pathway-worldwide-africa
Excerpt:
Those involved with the program believe it’s impacting not just the program’s sponsoring faith institution in Africa but is reshaping what higher education might look like in African society writ large. On the continent today, only about 8-9 percent of the population has access to a college education. As one source puts it, there simply “aren’t enough seats.” With low supply comes pent-up demand. That demand accounts for BYU-Pathway’s explosive growth there.
Among Latter-day Saints who choose to serve two-year missions, in some pockets of Africa nearly 50 percent are currently enrolling in BYU-Pathway when they return home. Today, enrollment in online certificate and degree programs through BYU-Pathway and its partners is approaching 20,000 students. The program launched on the continent in 2017 and already Africans comprise roughly 27 percent of BYU-Pathway’s global student body.
“Our compound annual growth rate has averaged 78 percent a year in Africa,” BYU-Pathway President Brian Ashton says. “This is persistent, unparalleled enrollment growth. Within the next five years, we think that we’ll get to about 44,000 students in Africa.”
