Church of Jesus Christ announces Marysville Washington Temple – Deseret News
The state of Washington is getting a seventh temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Marysville Washington Temple was introduced Sunday evening throughout a devotional within the Marysville Washington Stake by Elder Hugo E. Martinezto General Authority Seventy within the church’s United States West Area Presidency.
“We are pleased to announce the construction of a temple in Marysville, Washington,” the First Presidency mentioned in an announcement. “The specific location and timing of the construction will be announced later. This is a reason for all of us to rejoice and express gratitude for such a significant blessing — one that will allow more frequent access to the ordinances, covenants and power that can only be found in the house of the Lord.”
The different temples in Washington are the Columbia River, Moses Lake, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Vancouver temples.
The church has 214 temples in operation. Plans for an additional 170 temples have been introduced; many of these temples are in varied levels of planning and development.
Sunday’s temple announcement follows the brand new observe of the church’s First Presidency, which determines the place temples can be constructed — and when and the way they are going to be introduced.
The First Presidency directed a General Authority Seventy to announce the first temple in Maine at a fireplace there in December.
In January, church President Dallin H. Oaks mentioned the Maine announcement set the pattern for future temple announcements.
“The best place to announce a temple is in that temple district,” he informed the Deseret News.
The First Presidency will proceed to determine the place future temples can be constructed. It then will “assign someone else to make the announcement in the place where the temple will be built,” he mentioned.
This sample got here to him as a powerful impression after he assumed management of the church in October, following the loss of life of his pal, President Russell M. Nelson.
This got here as a powerful impression to him shortly after he assumed the management of the church, President Oaks mentioned.
The church stays within the midst of an aggressive temple-building period. President Nelson introduced 200 new temples from 2018 to 2025. All however one have been introduced at basic convention.
Five dozen temples at the moment are beneath development.
President Oaks has now overseen the announcement of two temples, neither at a basic convention.
At the October convention he said that “with the large number of temples now in the very earliest phases of planning and construction, it is appropriate that we slow down the announcement of new temples.”
Ten new temples are scheduled to be devoted within the subsequent six months.
- May 3: Davao Philippines Temple.
- May 3: Lindon Utah Temple.
- May 31: Bacolod Philippines Temple.
- June 7: Yorba Linda California Temple.
- June 7: Willamette Valley Oregon Temple.
- Aug. 16: Belo Horizonte Brazil Temple.
- Aug. 16: Cleveland Ohio Temple.
- Aug. 30: Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple.
- Oct. 11: Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple.
- Oct. 18: Managua Nicaragua Temple.
Two-thirds of the 170 temples nonetheless to be constructed are outdoors the United States.
Temples are distinct from the meetinghouses the place Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ every Sunday. Temples are closed on Sundays, however they open throughout the week as sanctuaries the place church members go to search out peace, make covenants with God and carry out proxy ordinances for deceased family.
