Stokes Sounds Off: BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Location Confirmed, Rendering Released, and Groundbreaking Scheduled for the Bacolod Phlippines Temple

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

BREAKING TEMPLE NEWS: Location Confirmed, Rendering Released, and Groundbreaking Scheduled for the Bacolod Phlippines Temple

Hello again, everyone! Within the last hour or so, the Church's official Newsroom announced official details for the Bacolod Philippines Temple. The released information includes a location, exterior rendering, and the announcement that ground will be broken for that temple on Saturday December 11, 2021. Elder Taniela B. Wakolo, the pesident of the Philippines Area of the Church, will preside thereat.

The temple will be situatted on the Bacolod Airport Access Road, North of Buri Road in Bacolod. The single-story edifice of 26,700 square feet will be joined by patron housing, an arrival center and a distribution center, all of which will be found in the ancillary building adjacent to the temple. The Bacolod Philippines Temple was one of 2 announced originally in October 2019. for which no official information had been announced. The only one now remaining from that group is now the Freetown Sierra Leone Temple.

I wanted to quickly note here something related to the timing: Although this temple will not have a groundbreaking until December 11, I am reasonably certain that the Church will announce groundbreakings for quite a few temples that will wind up occurring between the last currently-scheduled groundbreaking (for the Pago Pago American Samoa Temple on October 30 of this year) and the groundbreaking for the newest temple in the Philippines on December 11.

I will be sure to keep my eyes open for any update in that regard, and will pass that along to you all here as needed. That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. 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.

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  1. James G. StokesOctober 7, 2021 at 12:44 PM

    Hello again, everyone! The Newsroom and the Church News have provided coverage on the open house for the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple, which begins this weekend. Today, the Church is conducting media tours, with VIP tours following tomorrow, after which the public tours will be offered between Saturday October 9 and Saturday October 23. The last day of those tours in Winnipeg coincides exactly with the last day of public tours for the Pocatello Idaho Temple.

    After tours for both temples end, youth in the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple district will hear from general leaders of the Church on Sunday October 24. The temple's dedication will follow on Sunday October 31, in four seasons held at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:00 PM, with the option of a fifth session available at 4:00 PM if it is needed. Here are the reports on that from the Newsroom and the Church News:

    https://news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/long-awaited-open-house-begins-for-winnipeg-manitoba-temple

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2021-10-07/interior-images-winnipeg-manitoba-temple-media-day-open-house-229039

    The Church News has also provided the following additional reports as well:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-10-06/elder-nattress-byu-hawaii-devotional-spiritual-tsunamis-228977

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-10-07/16-ways-to-be-a-humanitarian-sister-eubank-blog-229021

    My thanks once again to you all.

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