You are invited to a Special Fireside

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mercer Island ward

4001 Island Crest Way, Mercer Island, WA

Sunday January 29, 2012 at 7pm

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Jewish Convert
LDS Author and Inspirational Speaker

The inspiring Testimony of a Jew

For details, please contact tjburke@gmail.com

Marlena is a Jewish convert. She owes her life to the Savior and obeys the personal revelation she receives, which is to speak to Latter-day Saints and others about those of the Jewish faith and culture, promoting interfaith understanding and Christian fellowship. You will also learn about:

  • What brought Marlena to deeply desire personal guidance through five months of secluded study, prayer and fasting.
  • Marlena’s conversion story.
  • Why the Mormons need the Jewish people.
  • What we must do now.

You will increase your appreciation of the Restoration and reinforce your faith in Christ. You will gain greater understanding of non-LDS traditions and learn ways to open communication and share with your Jewish friends.

As a caretaker years ago, I met many people approaching death. Each and all of them remembered best the care and interest others took in their lives. The full benefit of having friends near, regardless of race, religion or social circumstances, helps to conquer loneliness. It makes living a full experience.

We are all family. Knowing more about each other and developing respect for all whom we meet and deal and to whom we are related is an important key to following Heavenly Father’s admonition to “love one another”.  My firesides and classes are essentially given to help in the social bonding of one to another, so there may be peace, respect, compassion and eventually, unity between all of humankind.     Marlena Tanya Muchnick

The Testimony of a Jew

"Is it crazy to say that the conversion of a Jewish soul is the culmination of the wanderings of ancient Jews who followed Abraham and Moses out of hellish Egypt? My own family's ancestors lived as hunted animals in the wartime ghettos of Europe. They came looking for freedom but ended being herded like cattle across Germany in the killing boxcars. They endured bravely the stuffy, overloaded boats that bore them on the last leg of their Diaspora and brought them to a waiting America so that they might worship in freedom.

They came here also for me, that I, too, might worship in freedom. I carried with me their darkness, their unrelieved yearning for the light the full Gospel brings.

My future would now be filled with the bright light of Christ and the further assurance that I was finally in his Church. In the sacred moments of baptism by one having true authority, then the laying on of hands for the reception of the gift of the Holy Ghost, it was made known to me that I had learned the ways of God at Jesus' feet! As a new Christian I would be required to follow him in all things as one of the many thousands of missionaries of the Restoration,"