Becoming Christ’s Hands
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image via LDS.org. This has been a year of change for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Visiting Teaching and Home...
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Here Comes the Flu: How to Stay Prepared and Stop the Spread
There has been a slow start to flu season this year but the holidays have proven to be a breeding ground and now many are ill. At this time the greatest concentration of large outbreaks is the east...
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Teaching Children Financial Self-Reliance
When we help children to understand that there is happiness in providing for ourselves through work and prudent budgeting, they prepare to succeed in a world that rewards consumption and excess....
View ArticleBuilding Your Food Storage: What are You Waiting For?
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Authors Note: The article Teaching Children Financial Self-Reliance created so much attention and was shared so many times, thank you, that I...
View ArticleGovernment Study Confirms What Prophets Have Been Telling Us All Along
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE There is a change in the wind. Yes, at workplaces, on the web, and in the media, people are talking about food storage. People from all walks...
View ArticleTips for Emergency Preparedness on a Tight Budget
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I am currently facilitating a Financial Self-Reliance class at church. Recording all my expenditures and income has reminded me of a few...
View ArticlePreparing Your Family for the Flood Waters that Bring a Spike in Food Prices
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cover image: Looking over the valley along the Missouri river in Nebraska during the March flood of 2019. Now may be a good time to focus on...
View ArticleCoronavirus Scams: Be Aware
Scams continue and are getting more insidious as time goes on. Be informed and protect your family by knowing what to watch for. The government WILL NOT ask you for your bank account number, credit...
View ArticleCOVID Confessions of Meridian Authors
I love to learn from others, and I thought you might too. I have asked columnists here at Meridian Magazine to share with us their experiences during the stay-at-home orders. I will address some of...
View ArticleUsing Your Food Storage: Tortilla Soup
You may have stocked up on food storage with the onslaught of this pandemic, working to be prepared for quarantine. But if you are like us, you now have a food storage of freeze-dried food but not a...
View Article120 Hour kits and Coronavirus
Your first question may be what is a 120-hour kit. It is the new and improved 72-hour kit. Experience with disasters the last decade has shown planning to care for your own needs for just 72 hours is...
View ArticleProtecting Yourself During Civil Unrest
The following was originally published on Meridian in April of 2018. In light of recent events, it seemed relevant to publish it again. We have the choice to prepare for the worst, or to pretend that...
View ArticleWhat We Have Learned – Let Us Not Forget
Pandemics are unwelcome visitors, but they can teach us much about our own goals and priorities. Hopefully, we have learned the importance and joy of real, quality time with family. Hopefully we have...
View ArticlePandemic: What Have We Learned About Ourselves and God’s Purpose?
Some may ask how could God let this pandemic happen? Why would he allow the burning of cities and the destruction of our history?I believe we should be asking, what are we meant to be learning? How...
View ArticleA Heart-to-Heart About Food Storage
The year 2020 has been a wake-up call for all of us whether we had been diligently working on preparing or, like the people of Whoville in the movie Horton Hears a Who, believing “nothing ever happens...
View ArticleYou May Be Sabotaging Your Food Storage
When a calamity involves the whole community—this year the whole world—no one is going to ride in and rescue us. Government, church leaders, prophets, and emergency response organizations have all...
View ArticleTake the 30-Day Preparedness Challenge
Authors note: I want to thank all of you who have been sharing the Totally Ready Facebook posts and my articles here at Meridian. We now have several fire departments sharing our Evacuation Checklists,...
View ArticleYou’ve Lost Your Home: Now What?
At the moment there are fires in several states and a hurricane threatening the gulf states. It is hard to believe the extent of the destruction from the fires and the hurricane that hit a few weeks...
View ArticleHow to Assemble a Night Flight Kit
Authors note: You may be aware of the fires in the west. This week I spoke with the Stake Relief Society president in Medford, Oregon. The towns of Talent and Phoenix have been decimated. Over fifty...
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