What can a small group of women accomplish in an hour and a half? Big Ocean’s Salt Lake Valley Cottage discovered the answer during their August cottage meeting. Putting words into action, Big Ocean’s Salt Lake Valley Cottage took the opportunity to help solve world problems by doing a simple service project. Those who came for the…
DetailsDuring their family reunion last month, sixty young-adult refugees from Burma joined Ann Takasaki’s extended family for an evening of food, friendship, and shared experience. She explained, “I wanted these young refugees to understand that their story was similar to ours, and that they have a great future in store.” Ann, a native of Utah…
Details“Big Ocean Women is about being powerful as women and using the power to make others’ lives better,” said featured Big Ocean Woman, Lisa Bjornberg. Below you can see Lisa as part of the Big Ocean leadership team at the UN, where they stood for faith, family, and motherhood in international policy. As a very young child,…
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Message from the Board, July 2016 Greetings fellow Big Ocean compatriots! In honor of our first official newsletter, I wish you a warm welcome from all of us in Big Ocean leadership. We have been working tirelessly behind the scenes organizing a robust structure that will give us all a broader, more unified voice as…
DetailsWritten by Mara I first met Amanda in the kitchen of my neighbor’s home. We had been talking for a little over an hour when she began to relate the loss of her twenty-month-old son, Bennett. Five years earlier, he had inexplicably passed away in his sleep, and her anguish at that time was unbearable. As…
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