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In 1986, it purchased Mormon Handicraft–a handmade crafts store–from the Relief Society. As inventory and distribution was centralized in 1984, Deseret Book expanded its lines to include items such as CTR rings and more popular music. In 2002, Sheri L. Dew became the first female CEO and president of Deseret Book. [4]
Deseret Industries (/ ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ) [1] (known locally as DI) is a non-profit organization and a division of the welfare services provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). DI thrift stores are similar to the well-known Goodwill Industries.
Welfare Square was created in 1938, [2] under the direction of the Church's General Welfare Committee, which itself had been formed just two years earlier. [3] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States was experiencing the Great Depression Welfare Square became the flagship of the Church's Welfare Program.
Granary building at the LDS Church's Welfare Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.Welfare Square began in 1938 as a bishop's storehouse. [1]A bishop's storehouse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) usually refers to a commodity resource center that is used by bishops (lay leaders of local congregations analogous to pastors or parish priests in other Christian ...
The Laie Hawaii Temple, formerly known as the Hawaiian Temple or the Hawaii Temple until a standard naming convention for LDS temples was adopted in the early 2000s, is located on the northeast shore of the island of Oʻahu. The temple sits on a small hill a half-mile from the Pacific Ocean in the town of Laie, 35 miles (56 km) from Honolulu.
In 2001, there were 1,073 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Washington, D.C. It has since grown to 3,168 members in 4 congregations. Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.38% in 2014.
The LDS Church's first replica of Thorvaldsen's Christus was a gift to the church by Stephen L Richards and placed in the North Visitors' Center. [ 23 ] [ 13 ] [ 24 ] Richards first saw the statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California and later saw the original in Copenhagen, Denmark in September 1950.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Guatemala. The first convert in Guatemala was baptized in 1948. As of December 31, 2021, there were 287,475 members in 439 congregations in Guatemala. [1]