Shrinkage = Growth
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 12:32 pm
Announcement of changes of Stakes.
To be read at the opening of sacrament meeting on April 30, 2023
Dear sisters, brothers and friends of Rotterdam Stake,
"Jesus Christ is the reason we build temples," said President Nelson. "Every temple is His holy house. Making covenants and receiving essential ordinances in the temple, and striving to draw closer to Him there, will bless your life in a way that no other form of worship can. That is why we are doing everything we can to make the blessings of the temple more accessible to our members around the world."
With this vision of our prophet, we want to join in making the church more focused on our rapprochement to the temple and empowering our members. With the recent announcement of a new temple to be built in Brussels, an opportunity arises to more closely connect the temple districts and Stake boundaries.
The First Presidency has authorized the following changes.
1. To adjust the wardboundaries of the wards of Antwerp, Breda, Eindhoven and Spijkenisse for the benefit of the temple districts.
2. To transfer the Breda and Eindhoven wards from the Antwerp stake to the Rotterdam stake.
3. To have the stake boundaries follow with the temple district boundaries.
4. To change the name of the Antwerp stake to the Brussels Belgium North stake and to change the name of the Rotterdam stake to the Breda Netherlands stake.
We ask anyone who can support these changes in word, deed and prayer to make this known by raising their right hand.
Anyone who cannot, to make it known with the same sign.
We trust that these changes will strengthen neighborhoods and members and contribute to further growth and conversion. Forming a new stake will be a great change for us as well as the members in the Breda and Eindhoven wards. We urge you all to give them a warm welcome and support them as they will also support us.
Members from the Breda and Eindhoven wards will be invited to meet with us in the upcoming stake conference. This promises to be a joyous meeting. The changes with their accompanying adjustments will take effect from then on.
Thank you for your dedicated service and inspired discipleship. We love you and will continue to serve you to draw closer to Christ together by turning our focus to the assembly of Israel on both sides of the veil
To be read at the opening of sacrament meeting on April 30, 2023
Dear sisters, brothers and friends of Rotterdam Stake,
"Jesus Christ is the reason we build temples," said President Nelson. "Every temple is His holy house. Making covenants and receiving essential ordinances in the temple, and striving to draw closer to Him there, will bless your life in a way that no other form of worship can. That is why we are doing everything we can to make the blessings of the temple more accessible to our members around the world."
With this vision of our prophet, we want to join in making the church more focused on our rapprochement to the temple and empowering our members. With the recent announcement of a new temple to be built in Brussels, an opportunity arises to more closely connect the temple districts and Stake boundaries.
The First Presidency has authorized the following changes.
1. To adjust the wardboundaries of the wards of Antwerp, Breda, Eindhoven and Spijkenisse for the benefit of the temple districts.
2. To transfer the Breda and Eindhoven wards from the Antwerp stake to the Rotterdam stake.
3. To have the stake boundaries follow with the temple district boundaries.
4. To change the name of the Antwerp stake to the Brussels Belgium North stake and to change the name of the Rotterdam stake to the Breda Netherlands stake.
We ask anyone who can support these changes in word, deed and prayer to make this known by raising their right hand.
Anyone who cannot, to make it known with the same sign.
We trust that these changes will strengthen neighborhoods and members and contribute to further growth and conversion. Forming a new stake will be a great change for us as well as the members in the Breda and Eindhoven wards. We urge you all to give them a warm welcome and support them as they will also support us.
Members from the Breda and Eindhoven wards will be invited to meet with us in the upcoming stake conference. This promises to be a joyous meeting. The changes with their accompanying adjustments will take effect from then on.
Thank you for your dedicated service and inspired discipleship. We love you and will continue to serve you to draw closer to Christ together by turning our focus to the assembly of Israel on both sides of the veil