November 16, 2025
FIND SOMEONE TO SERVE
MACK WILBERG AND RYAN MURPHY
Conductors
BRIAN MATHIAS
Organist
DERRICK PORTER
The Spoken Word
ANTIPHON
from Five Mystical Songs
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Text: George Herbert
AWAKE AND ARISE, ALL YE CHILDREN OF LIGHT
Music: Welsh tune (The Ash Grove)
Text: David Warner
Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
TOCCATA IN SEVEN (ORGAN SOLO)
Music: John Rutter
LOOK UP
from Lifesongs
Music: Ryan Murphy
Text: Howard A. Walter
WE SHALL SEE AND WALK IN THE LIGHT
Music: Ryan Murphy
Text: John M. Harris (alt.)
THE SPOKEN WORD
“Find Someone to Serve”
HAVE I DONE ANY GOOD?
Music and Text: Will L. Thompson
Arrangement: David A. Zabriskie
HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION
Music: J. Ellis
Text: attr. Robert Keen
Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
FIND SOMEONE TO SERVE
The Spoken Word, November 9, 2025By: Derrick Porter
A young man, far from home, was spending his first night away at college. That evening, he found himself with little to do except entertain his feelings of loneliness and uncertainty. He was in a place that felt unfamiliar with people he didn’t know.
So he called his father and asked, “What should I do?”
The reply caught him off guard: “Find someone to serve.” Looking around the shared apartment, he noticed a sink full of dirty dishes. He rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He felt better.
Rather than looking down in discouragement and turning inward, he looked up in faith and reached outward. Calling his father, asking for help, listening to counsel, and then acting on it changed the feelings in his heart.
This young man’s experience is not unique—it’s one that each of us can have. When we call upon God with a sincere heart, asking, “What should I do? Who can I serve?,” we will receive answers. We will be guided to people who need to feel God’s love.
No matter how difficult our own circumstances may be, when we look upward in faith and reach outward to others, our own burdens become lighter, lifting our hearts and encouraging our souls. God is the giver of all that is good.1 He sees—and rewards—every act of kindness.2
The needs in this world are immense. There are people all around us who desperately need to feel the warmth of God’s love and to sense His light in their lives—a light that may shine through your service.
In the words of the hymnist Will L. Thompson:
Have I done any good in the world today?
Have I helped anyone in need?
Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?
If not, I have failed indeed. …
There are chances for work all around just now,
Opportunities right in our way.
Do not let them pass by, saying, “Sometime I’ll try,”
But go and do something today.
‘Tis noble of man to work and to give;
Love’s labor has merit alone.
Only he who does something helps others to live.
References:
1 See Moroni 7:12–13; James 1:17.
2 See 2 Corinthians 5:10; Doctrine and Covenants 112:34; Mosiah 2:17, 24.