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President Holland emphasizes God’s love, mercy and watch care during leadership training meeting in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. â As a father who would do anything for his children, President Jeffrey R. Holland said he has glimpsed the great love God has for all His children.
âI would do anything in righteousness for my children. There is no river I would not swim. There is no mountain I would not climb. I will fight a school bus, if you tell me to,â said President Holland, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during leadership meetings near the nationâs capital on Feb. 24.
If earthly fathers feel this way, what must it mean âfor an Eternal Being filled with glory and mercy? What must it mean for Him to love you â to love us â to try to make this work, to try to withstand evil and try to increase and cultivate and expand life and love?â he asked.
Speaking to Area Seventies, mission presidents, temple presidents and stake presidents in the Churchâs North America Northeast Area gathered in a chapel just outside of Washington, D.C., President Holland emphasized Godâs love, mercy and watch care.
Quoting Elder J. Reuben Clark, who served in the First Presidency before his death in 1961, President Holland said that he believes God, in His judicial role, will exercise the minimum amount of justice necessary to adequately cover whatever justice is required. And âHe would expend and share and cast on us the maximum amount of mercy and forgiveness and peace â essentially without bounds.â
It will be âas little on the one hand and as much on the other hand as the eternal balance scales would require.â
President Holland was joined in the instruction meeting by Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder José A. Teixeira of the Presidency of the Seventy, Elder Allen D. Haynie and Elder Robert M. Daines, both General Authority Seventies who serve in the North America Northeast Area presidency. After the meeting, Elder Holland spoke to missionaries serving in the Washington, D.C., area.
The trip to Washington, D.C., marked President Hollandâs first assignment outside of the western United States since an extended illness.
President Holland, who missed October 2023 general conference, has resumed a full schedule at Church headquarters â leading the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; speaking at the funeral services for President M. Russell Ballard on Nov. 17, 2023; rededicating the St. George Utah Temple on Dec. 10, 2023; and participating in leadership training and other assignments this year.
President Holland said his desire to do the work of the Lord is great. âI would go anywhere in the world to be with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,â he said.
Looking out upon a congregation of people who give hours and hours of their time each week to the Church, President Holland said the response to a call to serve in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of its basic miracles â starting with Joseph Smith and continuing to this day.
Speaking about the prophetic priorities of the Church, President Holland emphasized that members in stakes will come unto Christ as they are mission oriented and temple going.
Elder Renlund said Latter-day Saints âjoyfully bind themselves to God,â through their covenants.
âThis is the Lordâs work,â he said. âPresident [Russell M.] Nelson has said any time anyone does anything that helps anyone make covenants and keeps them on that covenant path, then they are gathering Israel.â
Elder Renlund spoke of the importance of the covenant path â especially for new members.
Referencing his medical training, Elder Renlund said there is both a âgolden hourâ to treating new patients in medicine and new members strengthening their conversion. Just as a patient who comes into the emergency room after a trauma has better outcomes when medical intervention sets them on the right path, there is a small but effective period to get a new member of the Church headed in the right direction and making additional covenants. âAnd then they just need to be guided along the path,â he said.
President Holland noted that when Elder Edward Dube, a General Authority Seventy, first joined the Church at age 22 in Zimbabwe, he attended Sunday meetings for two weeks and then prepared to stay home the third Sunday. Soon, however, a member couple stopped by and insisted he attend with them. In the more than three decades since, Elder Dube never missed Sunday Church meetings again.
Elder Teixeira also addressed helping new and returning members have a joyful experience â so they âsense they belong, so they are a part.â
Everyone that comes to Church should feel that they are ânot only welcome but that they are wanted,â he said.
Elder Daines spoke of helping Latter-day Saints feel the âjoy of the Sabbath dayâ and of âbeing connected to the Savior.â They can then pass that joy on by âwelcoming and inviting and helping other people feel the same thing.â
Elder Haynie asked the leaders to help members, especially children, âhave a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Emphasizing scripture study, he said, âChrist said this: âSearch the scriptures. … They are they which testify of me.ââ
While addressing missionaries, President Holland spoke of the blessing his own mission had been in his life. As a 19-year-old young man, he had a college scholarship, was on the basketball team and held a student body office. Still, his future wife encouraged him to serve a mission.
He came home 24 months later to discover that everything in his life was touched by that decision.
âEvery single thing that I cherish in this Church and gospel, I can trace back to the decision to go on a mission and do the best I could … and then to come home to a life of blessings that no young man from St. George could have dreamed possible.â
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WASHINGTON (7News) — Some D.C. residents told 7News they are fed up with the no-parking signs that have been added in front of their homes.
For the first time in 70 years, the view outside Anita Marsh’s home has changed.
“It’s very emotional,” said Marsh. “To be in a place where there’s no access to my door, no one can legally park for me to enter and exit my home. It’s frustrating, but more importantly, it’s upsetting. It’s very upsetting. I find it heartless.”
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Video from Marsh showed what she woke up to on Monday morning. She said the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) installed no parking signs in front of her home.
“How do I walk? How do I get into my house? I’m not very ambulatory,” said Marsh. “I have mobility challenges. So what happens?”
Neighbors about a mile away, over on Kimi Gray Court, reached out with the same frustrations. That’s where 7News met Aaron Harris.
“DDOT put these signs up, these signs, and they are ticketing people who are trying to park in front of their home because they have multiple cars,” said Harris.
Both neighborhoods feel that access to their home will now cost them.
“I’m very nervous because also financial impact is on a retiree,” said Marsh.
7News also got a call from businesses on MLK Jr. Avenue in Anacostia who said DDOT hit them with changes, too. 7News met Ronald Moton in front of his Gogo museum.
“They bring a bus lane without talking to us and take away 29 parking spaces,” said Moton.
Moton said business owners and customers have been hit with $200 tickets.
“This is a community trying to build itself up and survive,” said Moton. “You cannot come and dump stuff like this on us without talking to us.”
“We can’t afford to pay $90 a week or $180 or $270 per week because we’re in violation in front of a property that wasn’t zoned this way,” said Harris. “At least we didn’t know it was owned that way until the signs went up and they started getting ticketed.”
“I’m very scared. I’m very scared. And very upset,” said Marsh. “I’m not going to be able to stay in my house. Then I’m going to be forced to go elsewhere. Because I’m not going to be able to enter and exit my house.”
7News reached out to DDOT and Councilman Charles Allen, who chairs D.C.’s Transportation and Environment Committee, and asked about the no-parking signs community members feel came out of nowhere. 7News has not heard back from either yet.
New office in Tysons, Virginia, brings the firm’s design-build expertise and national resources closer to clients across the capital region
TYSONS, Va., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ARCO Design/Build, one of the nation’s leading design-build construction firms, today announced the opening of a new office in Tysons, Virginia, placing the firm in the heart of the Washington, D.C. market and directly on the Capital Beltway. The office expands on the presence ARCO has built in the region over many years and brings the firm’s people, design-build expertise, and national resources closer to existing and prospective clients across the District and Northern Virginia.
A significant share of ARCO’s work in the region has originated in the D.C. area. The Tysons office is the natural next step in the firm’s growth, and a commitment built on established relationships with a track record of completed work. With many of those clients headquartered in the capital region and building across multiple geographies, the Tysons office allows ARCO to be closer to decision-makers, active pursuits, and the opportunities shaping the market today.
The office is further strengthened by local leadership, including Drew Enstice, Vice President, whose experience in the region supports ARCO’s continued growth across the Washington market.
“The Washington region has been central to our growth, and the Tysons office lets us meet it with our full strength,” said Aaron Weir, President, ARCO Design/Build. “We’re building on the relationships and successful work we’ve already established here, while bringing the resources of a national builder to a market with growing opportunity across advanced manufacturing, food and beverage, life sciences, aerospace, defense, and other complex sectors that demand precision.”
ARCO’s integrated design-build approach brings design, engineering, procurement, and construction together under a single accountable team from the outset. The firm delivers cost certainty, compressed schedules, and a single point of responsibility that matter most on complex, regulated, and mission-driven facilities.
About ARCO Design/Build
ARCO Design/Build is a national design-build construction firm delivering the strength, resources, and expertise of an award-winning national builder combined with the responsive, personalized service of a local partner. With more than 50 offices and over 1,800 associates across the country, ARCO provides comprehensive design, engineering, and construction services across various industries such as industrial, e-commerce, logistics, data centers, commercial, life sciences, defense and aerospace manufacturing, healthcare, food and beverage, retail, and light manufacturing facilities. ARCO is a 100% employee-owned company through its ESOP. To learn more, visit arcodb.com.
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Food and Friends expects to double its impact with a $30 million addition and renovation.
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Nonprofit donating two million meals each year is now set to expand
Food and Friends prepares over two million meals each year for people in the D.C. region who are battling serious illnesses. The organization expects to double its impact with a $30 million addition and renovation.
The first shovels went into the ground Monday at Food and Friends’ headquarters in Northeast D.C.
The 17,000-square-foot expansion will dramatically impact how many people the organization can serve on a daily basis, the nonprofit said.
“The demand has been so high, and so we need more room. And we’re really, really excited to be kicking that off,” Food and Friends CEO Carrie Stoltzfus said. “We’re going to be able to more than double what we do.”
Food and Friends currently packages roughly 7,100 meals per day and delivers throughout the D.C. region in an area approximately the size of Connecticut.
Staff described the current building as bursting at the seams, with many rooms doubling as food storage.
“Most of the expansion space will be for food production and food storage because that’s really what drives everything else that we do and why we’re all here,” Stoltzfus said.
The new building, set to be completed in May, will include a state-of-the-art kitchen. The current kitchen will be transformed into a chilled food packing room.
The expansion also adds private nutrition counseling rooms for clients who are battling diseases such as cancer, AIDS, renal failure and other illnesses.
All clients of Food and Friends are referred to the program by healthcare providers. Dietitians and chefs have developed 11 meal types tailored to specific health needs.
Rebecca Kahn, director of nutrition services at Food and Friends, said its food is medicine, leading to better health outcomes.
“Hospital visits are going down as compared to before getting our services. Clients are saving money on healthcare costs,” she told WTOP.
Loris Adams is a volunteer and a former client who received meals from Food and Friends while she battled ovarian cancer. She’s thrilled with the expansion.
“People like me, people like your neighbors have an opportunity to be fed and nourished — body, soul and spirit — while they’re going through really hard and difficult times,” she said after the groundbreaking.
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