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LDS plans one-stop 'Welfare Complex'

I worked for the Bishop's Storehouse one year. 8 hour day for two weeks of food. God bless the LDS Church.

Um, sorry to burst your bubble, but this is not the "first" complex of this type. A similar "one-stop" facility with all services in one location opened earlier this year in North Las Vegas. It is a wonderful facility and a vast improvement over the previous D.I. location.

Wrong. The same complex opened in Las Vegas last year

there is one in sacramento,california also.

There has been a one-stop welfare complex (employment counseling, welfare, bishop's storehouse, cannery, etc.) in Dallas for close to 20 years.

What about the Distribution/Beehive store that will be in the Layton facility? Is that also in the ones in Vegas/Mesa/Dallas????

I agree with others, better check your facts or explain the difference. Las Vegas has the same, which did open last year or early this year.

Having worked for the church in Vegas I can tell you that all of the facilities mentioned in the other posts are missing something that this Layton facility will have. Dallas does not have a DI among other things. The facility is in North Las Vegas not Las Vegas and that faciity does not have a distribution center (although it is beautiful!). Vegas also acks a humanitarian area like they have in St George. I have spoken with Scott Anderson on a number of occasions and if he says it is the first of its kind then it is. Sorry to burst your bubble : )

Any chance of even just a Deseret Industries making it east of the Mississippi? After all, the majority of Americans live here - and we do have fourteen temples.

And don't just plop one facility somewhere and assume that will do the job.

I agree! Although I'm not in the East but I want a DI in OKLAHOMA!!! I can't stand the Goodwill or the Salvation Army, They are almost always over priced and DI just has a better operation. You go to these places to get a break on the things you need, I would rather give my things away any day than to give it to the Goodwill to sell an an unreasonable price. Well, any how, Please, Please, Please send a DI our way. Oh, and a LDS Book store...we do have a temple now, small but it serves the same glorious purpose!

What is this DI? Sounds wonderful...Could we have one in Saint Louis Mo.? The thrift stores here are really outrageous in prices.. Would like more information...

DI stands for Deseret Industries and it functions like a Salvation Army-type thrift store, but also sends a vast amount of its materials to third-world countries for distribution as charity. It is owned and operated by the LDS church, which is known for its unmatched, effective organizational structure. From what I hear, they are far better priced than other thrift stores, hence thrift stores have trouble competing in the Salt Lake City area.

Boy could we use one over here. We're smaller don't have quite the same need as in the States but there is still a need here, even on a small scale. We do have one LDS book store that serves the entire UK and a tiny Distribution center at each of the 2 Temples. I suppose we're doing ok.

I live in North Carolina and would really enjoy having an LDS Book Store and a Distribution Center in this part of the country.

Although membership isn't as great here as the western states, I feel it would give members here more of a feeling of belonging if we had some DI stores & other facilities here. Perhaps it would be good PR for the church too. We also need a local place to donate items such as Humanitarian Aid supplies like quilts.

Needing a bishop to tell you someone is homeless and staving, is like needing a weatherman to tell you it's raining. Maybe, Christ should have hung out with his finger stuck in his ear, waiting for Joesph Smith to establish a church with bishops to tell him who to heal!

Anonymous, please post your home address so we all know where to send homeless people, the hungry, the unemployed, those needing counseling, unwed mothers seeking adoptive couples, those needing rent paid and finances for utilities, medical expenses, schooling, those seeking humanitarian aid, etc. You obviously provide better care for the poor and needy than the flawed system I currently support. I give the Church WAY too much in financial and time commitments and it looks like my life would be much easier with your plan.

I hope someday DI will come to the Philippines. I think the person from Oregon can help us here.

How about a small "store-front" type place in a seedy, downtown area, that teaches the basic spiritual principles and ordinances of the gospel, as well providing availablilty for family canning and emergency prparedness teaching and opportunities to apply?

Well, we once had a bookstore, they moved to UT, but never have had a DI. I do know that you can take humanitarian efforts to the Bishop's storehouse (in your area) and they will send to UT. But to have the blessings of having such complex, here, would be wonderful and such an example - here in the mission field! We can all make a difference, somehow, just find the need and fullfill it. Remember you can make a difference, all by yourself. I am involved in the Singles program and this is one thing I have learned, I, alone can make a difference but with my brotheres and sisters we can change the world.