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A stake, the next highest level of organization, may be created if there are at least five ward-sized branches in adjacent areas. Once the stake has been organized, the ward-sized branches are organized into wards. Beginning in 2024, the LDS Church unified standards worldwide for creation of wards as shown in table below.
Stake and ward councils are meetings of local congregations within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). A ward is a standard local congregation unit, while a stake is made up of several wards. This arrangement is roughly comparable to diocese and archdiocese in the Roman Catholic faith. These LDS Church council meetings ...
On June 18, 2006, William W. John, programs manager at DuPont, became stake president for the Wilmington Delaware Stake. [9] On April 12, 2012, The Dover Delaware stake (Delaware's second) was created from the Wilmington Delaware Stake. [10] As of January 2024, Delaware had the following congregations: [11] Dover Delaware Stake. Camden Ward ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement. After the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, assumed the leadership of the church and led its members westward in wagon and handcart trains across the Mississippi River, the Great Plains, and through the Rocky Mountains to the Salt Lake Valley.
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
Other congregations were established. The Newark Branch moved to East Orange and became the East Orange Ward of the New York Stake in 1934. The East Orange Ward eventually moved to Short Hills and was renamed the Short Hills Ward September 9, 1953, where it still remains today. In 1960, the New Jersey Stake was created. [6]
On March 3, 1970, the Guam Branch became a ward in the Honolulu Stake. [7] [8] Full-time missionary work began in July 1970 when Michael Corrigan and Vern Liljenquist arrived from the Hawaii Mission. On November 21, 1971, the Honolulu Stake was divided due to size and the ward became part of the newly-created Kaneohe Stake.
The first missionaries arrived in the state in Salisbury in 1832, only two years after the church was founded by Joseph Smith. [6]In 2010, an estimated 40,000 people—over the course of its month-long open house—visited the new Hartford Connecticut Temple.