May 3, 2025, 11:00am MDT
Provo, Utah – As attendees at the 2025 BYU Women’s Conference chose to participate in service opportunities, seven rooms on Brigham Young University campus were filled with thousands of smiles, work hands and sounds of happy conversation.
The study room and service evening provided seven specific ways that women who attended the meeting could “walking with (Christ)” (Moses 6:34), help others in need, and serve fellow sisters.
Connie Mores and her sister, Helen Kelly of Huntington Beach, California, from Mapleton, Utah, were happy they were able to give their time in a critical way.
“Whatever they need us to do here, I want to join in and support it,” Moessing said.
Lorrain Huggans, who served as a service project leader night this year, has worked in various service committee roles over the past few years. Knowing the process of choosing the right project, she said that service projects are prayer-conceived and selected based on what they need.
“We have these hands and we want to know that we can actually make a difference,” Hagans said.
Study Service Room
This year, six service projects in the Study Service Room featured a stay project. While working on the project, addresses given simultaneously in another room were piped through a live audio feed. This allowed participants to learn and serve simultaneously.
Karin Brown, a member of the Service Subcommittee, said attending services at conferences is one of the things women want to do, listen, learn and keep their hands busy.
The projects completed in the Study Service Room included fleece blankets, mastectomy pillows, teddy bears, happy pillows, bookmarks and worrying companions. These projects are Camp Bay, Camp Hob, Early Learning Essentials, Granite Education Foundation, Heart Knit, Inter Mountain Medical Center, Odyssey House, Virginia SLC Healthcare System, and Valley Behavioral Health.
Night of service
More than 16,000 hygiene kits have been created by meeting attendees, and volunteers are surrounded by volunteers, a walk-through service opportunity this evening. Two passes offered the option to make four or eight hygiene kits as the woman added items to the bag along the table, tied them, and then repeated the process.
The women had the opportunity to flow into this section off-area of ​​Smithfield House and give a bit of a gift to those in need around the world.
“It’s another type of feast with the sisters,” said Amber Morrill of Perry, Utah. “Instead of just feeding myself, I can give it back.”
Morrill, her neighbor Courtney Healy, and friend of Brittany Hubble’s new meeting in Midvale, Utah, said the service opportunities also provide the opportunities they need to visit with new people.
For three sisters and daughter-in-law, service night became an important part of the annual BYU Women’s Conference “Reunion.” Carla Gordon in North Ogden, Utah. Christie Hull of Casper, Wyoming. Amyhal in Charlotte, North Carolina. And Cami Gordon, from Nibbly, Utah, made it a “fun tradition.”
Miracles and blessings
Unlike the learning service rooms available throughout most of the day, the service night was 3 hours. Meanwhile, a steady stream of participants completed around 13,000 kits.
However, according to Carolyn Myers, a member of the Service Subcommittee, three groups of women, made up of family and new friends, were looking at what others could achieve at the evening concert.
“They managed to complete another 3,000 kits,” Myers said with a big smile. The 16,000 sanitary kits are distributed by Helping Hands International to benefit refugees and others in need around the world.
Myers said this was one of the miracles he saw at the BYU Women’s Conference. Another miracle came right after they received a call about an agency that needed a surplus of supplies. The remaining items are given to Tabitha’s methods of helping people in the community.
“The heavenly Father put the right people in the right place to achieve his purpose,” Myers said.
Looking back on the experience, Hagan said women would come to women’s meetings “to fill in the cup” through learning and service.
“It’s incredible,” she said. “When you provide services, it changes you.”
