New Temple Developments Reported

Hello again, everyone! I am back to share some updates on a couple of temples. I had also hoped to cover some additional Church news which has been reported today, but will have to save that for another post later today. First, with the open house for the Barranquilla Colombia Temple set to begin exactly one month from today, the work of planting clusters of flowers on the temple grounds is almost complete.

Additionally, several developments have been reported on the construction process for the Durban South Africa Temple. Rather than trying to summarize all of those, I refer those interested to the Facebook page for the Church of Jesus Christ Temples site. That site, as previously noted, is anticipated to be up and running again this Saturday, if all goes well.

I again want to reemphasize something I have previously noted: Although the developments reported on temples anticipated to be completed next year are very encouraging, there is currently no reason to believe that those temples will be dedicated any sooner than specified by the estimates I offered on this blog previously. In summary, the anticipated time-frame for known temple events within the next 15 months is as follows:

October 28: Dedication of the Concepcion Chile Temple (confirmed)
December 9: Dedication of the Barranquilla Colombia Temple (confirmed)
At some point (hopefully sooner rather than later): Full-scale renovation anticipated to begin on the Asuncion Paraguay Temple
Note: This temple closed almost a year ago (in November 2017), but has been stalled in its' renovation process. While I would hope that process would not be stalled for too much longer, unless a miracle occurs, I would not anticipate that process getting underway within the final two months of this year. By extension, that also means that the Church's estimated reopening of that temple at some point in 2019 will not occur either.
March 10-17: Dedication of the Rome Italy Temple (confirmed)
April 14: Dedication of the Kinshasa DR Congo Temple (confirmed)
Early-to-mid 2019: Dedication of the Fortaleza Brazil Temple; Rededication of the Frankfurt Germany Temple
Note: Although the two events above may be considered somewhat interchangeable, and although I voiced my opinion that the rededication of the Frankfurt temple could occur before the already-scheduled dedication of the Rome Italy Temple, since the dedication of that temple is now 5 months away, and since there has been no official announcement on the Frankfurt temple, it seems more likely that the rededication of the Frankfurt temple will not occur until sometime after the already-scheduled dedications of the two temples above.
Mid-2019: Dedication of the Port-au-Prince Haiti and Lisbon Portugal Temples; Rededication of the Oklahoma City Oklahoma and Memphis Tennessee Temples
Note: Although the four temples may be considered interchangeable in terms of their future completion, the Port-au-Prince Haiti Temple, which is on the smaller side, is likely to be completed before the Lisbon Portugal Temple, and the Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple has been confirmed as being ahead of the Memphis Tennessee Temple, although the latter closed first.
Mid-to-late 2019: Dedication of the Durban South Africa Temple; Rededication of the Raleigh North Carolina and Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple
Note: With the consistent progress reported within the last month on the construction of the Durban South Africa Temple, I would anticipate that temple's dedication to occur first. And although I had previously shared my thoughts that the rededication of the Baton Rouge Temple would occur first, a recent reevaluation of the information which I had available indicates that the Raleigh Temple is still slightly ahead.
Late 2019-early 2020: Rededication of the Oakland California Temple
Note: According to information given to me by a Church member living in Oakland, the Saints in that area were advised that this temple will reopen next year, as was indicated by the Church when this renovation process was announced. That said, my research indicates that temples undergoing renovation, particularly those that are older, may be delayed in their completion. For example, when the Frankfurt temple closed in 2015, it was anticipated to reopen in 2017, and, as noted, its' rededication is now estimated to occur in early-to-mid 2019. With that in mind, I have felt to be more conservative in my estimate for this temple until its' reopening in 2019 is certain.

Of course, some temple groundbreakings are also anticipated to occur within the next 15 months as well, but until more is known, I will forbear from including estimates for those for now. That said, I am working on an update to my general estimates for future temple events, and may include such estimates there if I feel confident enough in doing so at the time I am able to post them here.

I continue to monitor all temple developments and will do my level best to pass word of those along to you all as I receive it. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.