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At the April 1995 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), church president Gordon B. Hinckley announced the creation of a new leadership position known as the area authority. [1] In 1997, area authorities were renamed area authority seventies and ordained to the office of seventy.
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), an area is an administrative unit that typically is composed of multiple stakes and missions. These areas are the primary church administrative unit between individual stakes or missions and the church as a whole.
The Church News is the official newspaper of the LDS Church, [4] publishing the church's "Authorized News." [5] This is not to be confused with the "Mormon Times" branded coverage within the religion section of the Deseret News, which contains unofficial social and cultural LDS news coverage, [6] though both are now distributed together to Church News subscribers. [7]
He was one of the first to report from Haiti the morning after the quake. [9] In 2020, Rascon became an area seventy of the LDS Church, which like most other positions in the church is a non-paid position that is conducted while employed in other lines of work. [10] Rascon was president of the church's Houston Texas Summerwood Stake from 2017 ...
(In the past, area seventies have also been called "area authorities" and "area authority seventies".) Pages in category "Area seventies (LDS Church)" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Washington has three — in Bellevue, Spokane and Richland — with one more under construction in Moses Lake. The Latter-Day Saints have 283,000 members in Washington. There are 52 congregations ...
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
He served in the church as president of the Provo Utah YSA 8th Stake from 2011 to 2016. [10] In April 2017, he was called as an area seventy. [11] Rasband was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on April 6, 2019, at age 56. [1] Since August 2020, Rasband has been serving as a counselor in the presidency of the church's Asia North Area. [12 ...