Post 46f: Beginning way back on Tuesday, January 8th I Gave Each of you Regular Readers of My Blog Along With, Hopefully, a Number of New Readers of my Blog too; the Opportunity of Really Knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about Keeping God's Commandments and Teaching Those We Love to Be Blessed and to Experience Feeling the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ Through Living in Accordance With His Gospel in Their Own Personal Lives. Then I Presented beginning Last Tuesday, February 5th, a Special Subject For That Week a Program which I, as a young Full-time Employee of LDS Family Services in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Early 1970s Was Allowed and Actually Encouraged to Develop by My LDS Family Services Supervisors and to simultaneously become Involved as a Full-time Graduate School of Social Work Student While Continuing as a Full-Time Employee of LDS Family Services! However, and I did not get into this subject with you previously; although I had been officially accepted as a fully qualified Graduate School of Social Work Student by Fresno State University when I was interviewed by the acceptance committee of the new San Jose State University School of Social Work Program they turned out to be very critical of my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and they insisted that my church looked down negatively upon both American Indians and Mexican-American people. That committee then reported to San Jose State University that they would not accept me as a graduate student in their new school of social work that was just being set up at that university because my undergraduate qualifications were not sufficient. I was fully aware they just didn't want a "Mormon" in their graduate school of Social Work because I knew that according to Fresno State University I was fully qualified. graduate student of Social Work, however, I couldn't attend Fresno State University because it was too distant from the work assignment LDS Family Services needed me in. I then wrote a letter to State Senator John R.Harmer who along with his wife and several children had served as a foster family to one of my American Indian foster children. I told him that I had been rejected by the acceptance committee of the Graduate School of Social Work of San Jose State University because I was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as was he and his family. To make the outcome of this as brief as possible, it turned out that State Senator Harmer, was a very close associate of the Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan (who later became President of the United States of America) and therefore was able to persuade the president of San Jose State University to overturn the rejection decision regarding me by their new graduate school of social work. Although acceptance of me by the faculty of the San Jose State Graduate School of Social work who were for the most part Mexican Americans themselves was not at first provided willingly, they gradually came to accept me as a part of their program and after working closely with that faculty for two full years of schooling I earned my Masters Degree of Social Work Diploma! As mentioned in last week's Post 46-e's introduction I was able to bring about two programs through my graduate school work for possible use by LDS Family Services, one of which was that which eventually became the "Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." You will Learn More About that Program Soon in This Blog Post.

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TODAY'S THEME

Our Lord Jesus Christ -by Heinrich Hofmann

Before you once again begin to delve into the workings of the marvelous Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after reading about my challenges in being admitted to graduate school at California State University San Jose because I was a "Mormon", I invite you to learn what one 43 year old American banker in Spokane Washington (U.S.A.) did to show his concern for the safety of a flock of new born baby ducks who needed urgent help.

That help was something only a caring human being could offer in saving those baby ducks from sudden death they would have doubtless suffered had he not been there to catch each one of them, one by one, as their mother quacked them down to her causing each of them to plummet from their birth perch dangerously high for baby ducks who were not yet able to fly, from that ledge high on a city building down to the sidewalk.

Then that mother and her flock were personally led by that banker safely down the middle of a street which had fortunately just been prepared  for a soon upcoming parade; over to a nearby river where they each jumped in and swam away following closely after their loving mother!

Even Baby Ducks are Worth Saving!

The Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints http://www.mormonchannel.org/addiction-recovery-program  If an Advertisement for the Yellow Moxie Program comes on your screen, please simply click on the x you'll find on their mostly yellow advertisement if it does!

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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

J. Neil Birch

Post 46e: For the Past Three Weeks I Have Given Each of you Regular Readers of My Blog Along With, Hopefully, a Number of New Readers of my Blog, the Opportunity of Really Knowing What the Gospel of Jesus Christ is All About and How We Can Help Those We Love to Be Blessed and to Experience Feeling the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ Through Living in Accordance With His Gospel by in Our Own Personal Lives. Now I Present a Special Subject For This Coming Week and Possibly for Additional Weeks Depending on the Number of People Who End Up Viewing this New Blog Post I am Just Beginning. I Am Deeply Grateful that as a Young Full-time Employee of LDS Family Services in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Early 1970s I Was Allowed and Actually Encouraged by My Supervisors to Become Involved Simultaneously as a Full-time Graduate School of Social Work Student While Continuing as a Full-Time Employee of LDS Family Services; I Chose to be Assigned by my Graduate School of Social Work Program at San Jose State University Leaders to Work With a Non-LDS Mexican - American Group of Recovering Alcoholics to Learn Personally From those Who had Become Very Dear to Me After Associating Closely with Those Good People for one Year, What the Alcoholics Anonymous Program Was All About. With that Start I Eventually Was Guided by the Lord and with the Approval and Guidance of my Agency Director and Those Leaders above Him, to Begin a Pilot Program Which Eventually Led, With the Personal Involvement of Many Recovering LDS Addicts, the Beginnings of Something Which Eventually Became The "Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Immediately After Finishing that Graduate School Program and Upon Obtaining my Master of Social Work Degree from San Jose State University in San Jose, California, I was Assigned to be the First Agency Director of the New Kansas City Missouri Agency Located in the Mid Western Portion of the U.S.A. Not Long After Having Moved There I Received a Letter From an LDS Woman Who Had Been Involved in the Beginning Phases of the Church's Now Official Program: The Addiction Recovery Program. I was pleased, Surprised and Humbled by reading in Her Letter Her Expression of Gratitude for What I Had Been Blessed to Do Through My Graduate School Assignment and my Tying that Into What I Was Doing in My Employment With LDS Family Services, Which Along With the Dedicated Involvement of Many Others Became the Very Special LDS Addiction Recovery Program of the Church. With Deep Gratitude to the Lord Jesus Christ I'm Grateful for that Great Experience I Had in Being Personally Involved in the Very Beginnings of that Special Program. I'm deeply grateful that Through that Special Program Hundreds of Thousands of Suffering LDS Individuals are Now Being Assisted in Overcoming Their Previous Addictions of All Kinds! May the Lord Continue Blessing Each of Them and Each of You!; John Neil Birch, Sr.

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Dear Readers of this Blog, please note that Google advertisements may appear in this blog post or to the right of my posts. They were not solicited by me and I do not profit from them. I did request particularly that Google not place them within scriptures which I often use in my blog posts. It appears they have honored that request of mine. Thank you Google! (I hope they continue to honor my request!)

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TODAY'S THEME

Our Lord Jesus Christ -by Heinrich Hofmann

The Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintshttp://www.mormonchannel.org/addiction-recovery-program (Do not choose Yellow Moxie program!) Please Go to the addiction recovery step of the twelve available you wish to learn about this week. You are welcome to visit as many different steps as you desire. You can continue to visit as many different steps as you desire each week you choose to return to this particular post. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can ask their ward bishops where these Addiction Recovery Meetings are being held. If you are not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you may desire to locate any LDS bishop you can find and ask for his assistance in helping you locate a Recovery Meeting which is closest to where you can be. He will be willing to help you find one.

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DISCLAIMER

This website is not owned by or affiliated with the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the Mormon or LDS Church). The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the position of the Church.

____________

"Have You Really Read the Book of Mormon?" Legal /Statement.Thank you for visiting. The author retains intellectual property and creative licensing rights. Permission to use or reprint must be given in writing. © Est.2008 Neil Birch Legal /Statement.

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TO OPEN NEIL BIRCH'S BLOG INDEX: To Either Read the Full Index Item Which Refers To This Blog Post, (Or To Search The Index For Any Other BlogPost You Desire To Access): After You Have Read All of This Paragraph, Please Scroll Back Up and Click on The Following:  Introducing the Addiction Recovery Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -Post 46e

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I deeply appreciate your readership and hope you found very beneficial, that which was presented to you in this blog post.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

J. Neil Birch