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Doctrinal Study Faith in Jesus Christ. Doctrinal Study First Vision. Doctrinal Study Godhead. Until the 's, stakes only existed in communities where a large proportion of the population was made up of members of the church. In the 's stakes were organized in California. In the 's a stake was organized in New York City and another in Chicago. About the same time, a stake was organized in Hawaii.
In the 's the first stake outside of North America was organized in New Zealand. Britain received a stake in the late 's. The first non-English speaking stake was organized in in the Netherlands. The first Spanish speaking stake, but second stake in Mexico, was organized in Mexico City in With the organization of a stake in Tokyo in all inhabited continents had at least one stake.
Currently in the Church there are more than 2, stakes. The first country to be entirely organized in stakes was Tonga. The United States has never reached this point. The stake is an intermediate level in the organizational hierarchy of the LDS Church.
Conferences groups of branches in the missions were renamed districts. Beginning in the s, Church leaders established stakes outside of the western United States. The first were established in California, northern Mexico, and the eastern United States, then a handful in the Pacific and Europe. In the s, Church leaders began establishing stakes throughout the world, with each stake supervising several wards or branches.
Stakes and wards offer a strong sense of community and belonging to members, many of whom now live in busy, urban settings or in areas where Latter-day Saints are a small minority. At the local level, bishops and ward members care for and minister to one another as they strive to live according to the principles of the gospel. Most priesthood quorums and Church auxiliaries are organized at the ward level. Lines of ecclesiastical authority connect wards through stake presidencies to the General Authorities and Officers of the Church.
New stake presidencies were called for most of the stakes, and several new stakes were organized by dividing those that had become too large. As part of the organizational change instituted by Brigham Young, stake presidencies were given responsibility for all Church matters within their stake boundaries. Stake presidencies were instructed to hold quarterly conferences, which would be visited and presided over by General Authorities.
Stake presidencies were also instructed to visit the wards in their stake on a regular basis and to call local priesthood leaders as home missionaries to help them preach in the wards.
Other changes in stake organization were designed to improve administrative efficiency. Stakes were made into more manageable units to give stake presidents more time for their private commitments and to create smaller and more cohesive units with which members could more readily identify Alexander, pp.
During this same period, financial accounting procedures were regularized and Church membership records systematized, and the newly streamlined stakes were given greater oversight responsibility in both areas. Following these important organizational changes, the stake assumed its role as the major governing unit between the wards and Church headquarters.
Stakes were now expected to have responsibility for every person and every program within their boundaries. Decentralization by the transference of more priesthood responsibility to the stakes has continued as Church membership has expanded.
Stake presidents and bishops have been clearly identified as the links in the organizational chain between the General Authorities and local Church members. The historical importance of stakes in the Church is exemplified by the stake-level innovations that have been adopted throughout the Church.
Family home evenings and the Welfare program began as programs of the Granite Stake in Salt Lake City in the early s. The "Home Evening" program was designed to help parents develop closer relationships with their children. The suggested format for these weekly family meetings included prayer, music, scripture reading and gospel instruction, discussion of family concerns, recreational and cultural activities, and refreshments.
The Granite Stake Welfare plan was designed to promote temporal well-being by stressing home industry and cooperation. Stake committees were appointed to promote gardening, the development of canneries, livestock raising, and the establishment of new industries. This program foreshadowed the work of President Harold B.
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