Hello again, everyone! This afternoon at 2:00 PM, the First Presidency announced opening arrangements for the Abidjan Ivory Coast Temple and released a groundbreaking date and exterior rendering for the Grand Rapids Michigan Temple, and an exterior rendering for the San Jose California Temple. The renderings largely speak for themselves However, I did want to note that I thought an exterior rendering had already been released for the Grand Rapids Michigan Temple, but I may be mistaken.
With that said, let's turn our attention to the Abidjan Ivory Coast Temple's opening arrangements: A media day will be held on Monday, April 28, 2025, followed by invited guest tours on Tuesday, April 29, and Wednesday, April 30. The public open house will be held from Thursday, May 1-Saturday, May 19, excluding Sundays. The temple dedication will follow on Sunday, May 25, in one session at 10:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time, under the direction of Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
And finally, the groundbreaking for the Grand Rapids Michigan Temple will occur on Saturday. December 7, 2024. with Elder Mathias Held, First Counselor in the North America Northeast Area, presiding. This will be the 14th groundbreaking this year, almost twice as many as we saw in 2023. I am cautiously optimistic that we will see a couple more groundbreakings by the end of this year, but that may be all she wrote. Stay tuned here for updates from the Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples sites.
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