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Friday, December 6, 2024

BREAKING NEWS: First Presidency Creates Canada Area

Hello again, everyone! Effective August 1, 2025, the First Presidency will create a Canada Area of the Church from a division of the North America Central, North America Northeast, and North America West Areas. The new area will be headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and will have a new area presidency called. The Church will now have 24 geographical areas, with the Canada Area joining the 19 international areas.

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10 comments:

  1. James G. StokesDecember 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM

    The Church News covered this update as well. My thanks once again to you all.

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    1. James G. StokesDecember 7, 2024 at 12:09 PM

      I can conclusively confirm that the Grand Rapids Michigan Temple had its' groundbreaking ceremony today as scheduled, because I was able to watch it as it occurred. My thanks once again to you all.

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    2. James G. StokesDecember 8, 2024 at 9:23 AM

      Elder Patrick Kearon presided at his first temple dedication in Tallahassee this morning. It is the 202nd operating temple of the Church. If the Church has 300 operating temples by the Church's 200th anniversary (on Saturday April 6, 2030), 98 temples will need to be dedicated in the 5.33 years between now and then, an average of 18.39 temples per year. My thanks once again to you all.

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    3. James G. StokesDecember 8, 2024 at 2:32 PM

      The Church News reported on today's temple dedication. Also, we are just a few hours away from the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional. As per my usual tradition, I have made my projections of the speaker lineup (with this year's projected lineup featured at the bottom of the page). Time will tell whether I am correct or not. My thanks once again to you all.

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    4. James G. StokesDecember 8, 2024 at 3:29 PM

      The Newsroom also reported on the dedication. My thanks once again to you all.

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    5. James G. StokesDecember 8, 2024 at 11:40 PM

      One thing I forgot to mention in my post above is that I believe that the new Canada Area will fall under the Tenth Quorum of the Seventy. 2 of the 3 areas that the Canada Area will pull from are in the Tenth Quorum.

      In another note, the Newsroom and the Church News have summarized the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional. Looks like the only thing I got right is that Elder Cook would speak My thanks once again to you all

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    6. James G. StokesDecember 9, 2024 at 1:34 PM

      The Church News has provided the text of the prayer offered by Elder Patrick Kearon yesterday to dedicate the Tallahassee Florida Temple. As I read the text of that prayer, it was evident to me that, as the newest apostle dedicating a temple for the first time, he reviewed the text of the prayers offered recently by his fellow apostles. My thanks once again to you all.

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    7. James G. StokesDecember 9, 2024 at 1:47 PM

      In other temple news, 3 days ago, the Church News shared the biographies of three new temple leaders who began serving in November and December of this year and will begin serving in September of next year. I have updated my list of temples for which new leaders have been announced in 2024. That list now includes 1 temple for which new leaders were called in 2023 but they are considered as being in the "class of 2024", and 80 temples for which new leaders have been called this year. My thanks once again to you all.

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  2. СњешкоDecember 10, 2024 at 2:07 PM

    I don't know if this is something you'd like to correct, but it appears that you mistyped Toronto, Ontario, Canada in part of your post. But this is an amazing development! Thank you for keeping us up to date

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    1. James G. StokesDecember 10, 2024 at 2:35 PM

      I redundantly stated the information about the area headquarters, with the typos in the second reference. I eliminated the duplication and the typos with it. My thanks once again to you.

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