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By Elder John K. Carmack Managing Director Perpetual Education Fund Department The Perpetual Education Fund is blessing not only participants and donors but also the Church as a whole. In the priesthood session of general conference on 31 March 2001, President Gordon B. Hinckley made an announcement heard around the world. The Church was to create a Perpetual Education Fund (PEF). It would be patterned after the 19th-century Perpetual Emigrating Fund, which helped tens of thousands of Latter-day Saint converts from Europe join the body of the Saints in the valleys of western North America. This new PEF would provide...

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