Fast and testimony meeting is a sacrament meeting usually held on the monthly on Fast Sunday during which those members who feel prompted, share (or "bear") their testimony with the other members of their ward. Healthy members choose to fast on this weekend for two meals and donate the money they would have spent for those meals to the church's welfare program. As with all other donations, these are privately paid through donation slips. A ward or a family can fast in unity for a purpose, such as for an ill member, or health, social, temporal and emotional needs.