The church has released a DVD and pamphlet to re-emphasize its long-standing principles of welfare and to bring to the attention of priesthood and Relief Society leaders their responsibility to help bishops seek out and care for the poor.

The "Basic Principles of Welfare and Self-Reliance" DVD and pamphlet were produced earlier this year and feature messages on self-reliance by President Thomas S. Monson, Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve, Presiding Bishop H. David Burton and Sister Julie B. Beck, Relief Society general president.

The DVD and pamphlet were sent to local priesthood leaders in North America and other English-speaking countries along with the booklet "Providing in the Lord's Way, Summary of a Leaders' Guide to Welfare." This booklet is a summary of a former booklet produced in 1990.



All the information is intended to be complementary to the Church Handbook of Instructions, said Bishop Burton, speaking to the Church News about the information.

"Given the worldwide global situation as it relates to self-reliance, we decided it was timely to update and re-emphasize some of the basic principles relating to the care of the poor and the needy," he said.

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