The journey of a single peach, which passed through the hands of thousands of Mormon volunteers to the mouths of a hurricane-torn family, contains a simple lesson for all of us -- that through small and simple acts of service the church can collectively accomplish something large.

The story started last year at a church welfare farm in North Ogden, Utah, where local members cared for peach trees. In late summer, volunteers picked a bumper crop of peaches.

The peaches were delivered to a church cannery in Lindon, Utah, where they were cleaned and processed by additional volunteers.



Then bearing the "Deseret" label, the canned peaches were transported to Welfare Square in Salt Lake City where still more volunteers placed them in family food boxes. Those boxes were then loaded -- again by volunteer church members -- onto a truck and driven to Texas.

Latter-day Saint volunteers there unloaded the truck and carried some of the food boxes into the home of a needy family in the greater Houston, Texas, area; they were still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Ike that devastated their community.


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This story is provided by the LDS Church News, an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is produced weekly by the Deseret News.