Church Of Jesus Christ

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is hosting a women's conference, to which it is inviting all women in the community, on March 10. Several of the conference classes will be taught by La Cañada residents, including Melanie Ballard (organizational skills); Randy Bayard (shopping opportunities unique to Los Angeles) and Jeanne Broberg (genealogy 101). California Mother of the Year Dorothy DeVore, who is a La Cañada resident, will present a class on building positive relationships with adult children.

CLARK Stacy Bayles and Grant Clark have announced their plans to marry this month in the Los Angeles Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Calvin and Marilyn Bayles of La Crescenta. She graduated from Crescenta Valley High in 1996, attended Brigham Young University, served a mission in Croatia and recently received her bachelor's degree in nursing from BYU. She works in the labor and delivery room in a hospital in Orem, Utah.

La Canada Flintridge resident Robert C. O'Brien, who was nominated last year by President George W. Bush and later confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a United States Public Delegate to the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, will talk about his UN experiences on Thursday, July 13 at 7 p.m. The event, which is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society, will be held in the church's building at 1830...

David Lewis Rosen, the son of Norman and Elisa Rosen of Tujunga, received the rank of Eagle Scout. The former Glendale resident is a member of Troop 394 sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sunland. He has completed 24 merit badges. For his Eagle Scout project, he coordinated a landscaping project at Tierra Del Sol, a private school for the mentally challenged. The project consisted of planting ground cover to prevent erosion and beautification of the grounds.

Gary Moskowitz NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- It's the little things people do that can effect change the most. Local Mormons will discuss the importance of making change through individual effort at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Glendale Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1101 N. Central Ave. A two-day semiannual conference will give Mormons in the Glendale Stake the opportunity to reaffirm their...

KENYON ? BAYLES Brittany Dawn Kenyon of Lancaster and Scot Clark Bayles of La Crescenta have announced their engagement. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Terry and Nickie Kenyon of Lancaster. She is a 2002 graduate of Quartz Hill High School where she was on the soccer and golf teams. After high school, she attended Brigham Young University and served a mission in Argentina for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will begin the nursing program at BYU in January.

The La Crescenta Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has new leadership. Calvin Bayles, long-time resident of La Crescenta, is the congregation's new bishop or head pastor. Bayles works full-time as a trial attorney. Although it is challenging to balance work and family with leading such a large congregation, Bishop Bayles has chosen two excellent counselors to assist him: Brian Ostler and Kendall Hales, also long-time residents of La Crescenta. Hodges is executive secretary to Bishop Bayles, and Jeppsen functions as ward clerk.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will hold its annual Christmas concert with performances by local community members this Sunday, Dec. 10, from 7-8 p.m. at 4550 Raymond Ave. in La Crescenta. The public is invited to attend and "Celebrate Glorious Music of the Season," a free concert that will include sacred and secular pieces. Featured will be choral music by the Foothill Women's Chorus, a group with performers from La Cañada Flintridge, Montrose, Sunland and La Crescenta which sings for local clubs and events, giving two larger concerts each year.

Peru, St. Louis, Mo., and Provo, Utah, are the destinations of four Glendale members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called to serve in missions. Wesley Jones, 19, will spend two years serving in the Peru-Trujillo Mission. Wesley was born in Glendale and is the son of Douglas and Susan Jones. He graduated from Eagle Rock High School and has been attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Christopher Morales, 19, will be serving at the Peru-Lima North Mission.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, November 24 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Alice Williams Reeder, 92, who died November 18 in Glendale. Mrs. Reeder was born in Malad, Idaho, and graduated from Box Elder High School in Brigham City, Utah. Upon her marriage to Homer B. Reeder in 1940, the couple settled in Glendale, where they raised their four children. Mrs. Reeder was an EKG technician at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and served in a variety of capacities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she was a life-long member.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, November 24 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for Alice Williams Reeder, 92, who died November 18 in Glendale. Mrs. Reeder was born in Malad, Idaho, and graduated from Box Elder High School in Brigham City, Utah. Upon her marriage to Homer B. Reeder in 1940, the couple settled in Glendale, where they raised their four children. Mrs. Reeder was an EKG technician at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and served in a variety of capacities in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she was a life-long member.

Blain Fairbanks Anderson, 84, returned to his loving heavenly father on January 31, 2012. Blain, a long- time resident of the Crescenta Valley was born October 16, 1927 in Burbank, California. After serving a church mission in Holland & graduating from the University of Southern California, Blain began a career in real estate. As one of the early real estate developers in La Canada & La Crescenta, Anderson played a major role in the growth of local com-munities. On August 30th, 1951 Blain married Patricia Hales in the Latter Day Saint Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

June Hudson Lynn, 92, of Burbank, California, died on April 12, 2011, at her home surrounded by family.   June was born March 9, 1919 in Blanchester, Ohio to the late William and Florence Hudson.  June grew up with 5 siblings: Helen, Joe, Mary, and the twins, Harold and Gerald.  She shared a loving marriage with Carroll E. Lynn of Burbank, CA who passed away in 1987.   June enjoyed spending time with her family, gardening, playing cards with her girlfriends, the Sunday crossword, and was an active member of the Burbank Emblem Club.  June’s generosity touched the lives of all that knew her.   June is survived by her step-children, Barbara Thacher, Janet Miller, Sharon  and Mike Howard and Don and Karyn Lynn.  June also had 18 step-grandchildren, 41 step-great-grandchildren, and 4 step-great-great-grandchildren who loved her dearly.

The annual Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, sponsored by the Glendale Religious Leader’s Assn., began the holiday season for some 200 followers, filling the pews of the First United Methodist Church of Glendale on Nov. 23. Attendees were asked to bring nonperishable food items that will be donated along with a financial contribution to the emergency shelter of the YWCA of Glendale Domestic Violence Project. The service started with the lighting of the “God is Within Us” candle by 11-year-old acolyte Madison Neill , while father Hugh Neill capably handled the sound board.

LA CRESCENTA WOMAN’S CLUB SUPPORTS PLANTING The La Crescenta Woman’s Club is giving its 28th contribution this month to the U.S. Forest Service for its Penny Pines program. This program funds the planting of seedlings on national park lands, but financial gifts made in the Crescenta Cañada Valley are applied to land in the Angeles National Forest. The La Crescenta Woman’s Club has been sending donations to the forest service since 1961. More than 300 acres have been planted through members’ gifts over the years.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints PTA Beautification Day gets boost The Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School PTA Beautification Day got a much needed boost from Mormon Helping Hands of the La Crescenta Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . The school’s PTA had planned their annual Beautification Day, anticipating about 35 volunteers to do the work. Fortunately, Mormon Helping Hands offered to help the school as its quarterly local service project, adding another 140 sets of “helping hands” to the project.

A small number of Catholic churches in the United States have created monuments to acknowledge — and make amends to — people who were sexually abused by the clergy. These memorials have created controversy over how large or prominent they should be, or whether churches should have them at all. Do you think churches are right to acknowledge the history of sexual-abuse victims, and if so, how should they go about it? The church can never be right before God until we acknowledge before Him the wrongs we have committed and make proper amends to anyone we have wronged.