Welfare: Finding employment
Third in a four-part series on church welfare.
"We all want to be able to take care of ourselves and our families," Dennis R. Lifferth, managing director of welfare services for the LDS Church, said in a recent interview. "Unemployment strikes at the very heart of our self-confidence. The longer we are unemployed, the harder it hits."
Lifferth said it was fortunate that the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have encouraged members to have food storage to help weather financial storms. He told about what he called "four supporting pillars" to help those who are unemployed:
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