85 years ago today - Apr 7, 1936

The First Presidency announces the Church Security Plan, renamed the Church Welfare Program in 1938. This began four years earlier as a local innovation by stake president Harold B. Lee in the Salt Lake Pioneer Stake.

[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]

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