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Lane Speer (Paris Warner) is a young girl who enjoys camping with her parents. A year after Lane's father dies of cancer, her mother remarries a Mormon.Before the wedding they inform Lane she will be staying with her new "step aunt" where she is encouraged to attend a week-long girls' Bible camp organized by the LDS Young Women.
List of LDS Church adherents in each county as of 2010 according to the Association of Religion Data Archives: [24] Note: Each county adherent count reflects meetinghouse location of congregation and not by location of residence. Census count reflects location of residence which may skew percent of population in locations where adherents reside ...
The modern LDS Church does not use the cross or crucifix as a symbol of faith. Mormons generally view such symbols as emphasizing the death of Jesus rather than his life and resurrection. [43] The early LDS Church was more accepting of the symbol of the cross, but after the turn of the 20th century, an aversion to it developed in Mormon culture ...
With permission from church leaders and under the initial direction of General Relief Society President Eliza R. Snow, Rogers organized a Primary Association for her local Farmington congregation on August 11, 1878. Two weeks later, the first meeting was held on August 28, with 215 children in attendance.
Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 1.00% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Arkansans self-identified most closely with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [3] The LDS Church is the 9th largest denomination in Arkansas. [4]
As with all other donations, these are privately paid through donation slips or on the Internet. A ward or a family can fast in unity for a purpose, such as for an ill member or other personal or family needs. LDS meetinghouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA. The church definition of a testimony is "a spiritual witness given by the Holy Ghost.
LDS historian Todd Compton documented that Joseph Smith was sealed to two girls of age 14 and two girls of age 16. [17] During the era of polygamy in Utah, the New York Times reported in 1857 cases of girls aged 10 and 11 being married to old men, and noting that marriages of girls aged 14 was "a very common occurrence". [ 21 ]
The LDS Church has instructed leaders that a church membership council may be appropriate when evidence suggests that a member may have committed any of the following offenses against the standards of the church (whether or not a disciplinary council will be held will depend on the facts of the situation and is generally left to the discretion ...