Non Profits inundated after call to serve refugees

[pam]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39145934&nid=1284&title=nonprofits-inundated-after-lds-church-urges-women-to-serve-refugees

SALT LAKE CITY — No sooner had the Relief Society general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged LDS women worldwide to serve refugees, phones starting ringing off the hook at local nonprofit agencies that assist refugees.

"It was pretty much to the minute," Catherine Barnhart, executive director of theEnglish Skills Learning Center, said Friday.

The center provides English instruction and offers other classes to help refugees and immigrants succeed in their new lives in the United States by obtaining citizenship, learning financial management skills or parenting techniques. Most of the classes are taught by trained volunteers.

[Guest]

It's somehow very encouraging to me that the members of the Church would be so quick to listen and respond. 

[Blackmarch]

I was cheering when I heard this.