HUD secretary Carson visits Church’s Welfare Square
Elder Jack N. Gerard, left, and Elder Kent F. Richards, right, visit with HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson in a Deseret Industries Thrift Store located at Welfare Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, during a July 11, 2019, tour.
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HUD secretary Carson visits Church’s Welfare Square
Elder Jack N. Gerard, left, and Elder Kent F. Richards, right, visit with HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson in a Deseret Industries Thrift Store located at Welfare Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, during a July 11, 2019, tour.
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SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson toured The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Welfare Square as part of a brief visit in Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 11.
Elder Jack N. Gerard, a General Authority Seventy, and Elder Kent F. Richards, an emeritus General Authority Seventy, hosted Carson at Welfare Square.
His brief tour included stops at a dairy facility and Deseret Industries, with the hosting leaders explaining the Church’s principles of welfare and self-reliance and the processes of gathering and making available food and new and used goods to help less-fortunate individuals as well as for humanitarian distribution.
The HUD secretary also toured several housing and mixed-use facilities while in Salt Lake City.
