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Wasatch Chapter Works for Needy By Duane E. Jennings, Wasatch Chapter January, 1997 The Wasatch Chapter of Affirmation has had several members writing to a couple of people in prison and a couple of other members have been sponsoring gay mormons who are in adult halfway houses. Every year for the past three they have had a team walk in the Utah AIDS Foundation walk for life. In 1995 they took second place, and in 1996, they took first place in the Community Service Team category for most money collected in pledges. They have been doing service projects with the Traveler's aid program for the homeless (in 1995 they did Sub-for-Santas for one straight man who had diabetes/heart/liver and other problems, and the non-Mormon HIV+ partner of a gay Mormon who had died of AIDS earlier in that year. This year they have been collecting goods for the battered women and children's center at the YWCA in SLC. They're also involved in other projects including other spiritual/religious groups to reach out to people in need—old and young, male and female, etc. The Utah Gamofite group has also been doing similar work on their own, besides what they have been doing with the Affirmation Chapter. Apparently the scriptural admonition: "If ye have desires to serve, ye are called to the work" has special meaning in this chapter.
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