Church youth to gather for community service projects

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 26, 2025.

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Youth between the ages of 3 and 11, as well as their family and friends, who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Medicine Hat will gather Saturday to make crafts, toys and food to be donated to charity.

During the annual Medicine Hat Stake Primary Service Project local youth plan to support animals at the SCPA, women and children at the Women’s Shelter Society and clients at the Root Cellar, as well as making toys for children in refugee camps around the world.

To help fill hungry bellies in the city, the children will decorate the boxes of donated child-friendly cereal with funny jokes, and adding friendship bracelets.

The cereal will be donated to children at the women’s shelter, as well as individual hot chocolate packets. Extra cereal will be donated to the Root Cellar.

The kids will also make fleece blankets for cats and dogs at the local SPCA, as well as enrichment toys filled with hay for rabbits and guinea pigs.

To help bring a little joy to children living in refugee camps throughout the world, kids will also make and paint small wooden cars to be donated to the Dolls of Hope project, which focuses primarily on accepting handmade dolls, bears and matchbox/Hot Wheels or handmade wooden cars.

Organizer Kathy Hill says it’s important to teach the youth about charity at a young age.

“I think it’s so important,” said Hill. “You start when they’re young to start looking outside themselves, to start thinking about other people.”

The two-hour service project runs Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, however organizers will be on site before and after the event for a short time accepting child-friendly cereal donations from the public. The Medicine Hat Alberta Stake is located at 7 Sierra Blvd.

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