Stake is an administrative unit consisting of several sessions in certain denominations of the Latter-day Saint movement. The name "peg" comes from the Book of Isaiah: "Lift up the curtain of thy house, and throw down thy curtain, put away thy ropes, and strengthen thy shoulders" (Isaiah 54: 2). Stakes are sometimes referred to as peg Zion .
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History of the bet
The first Latter-day Saint banner was organized at the church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio on February 17, 1834, with Joseph Smith as its president. The second stake was organized in Clay County, Missouri, later that year on July 3, with David Whitmer as president. The Missouri Stake was moved to Far West, Missouri, in 1836, and the Kirtland Stake was dissolved in 1838. The stake was organized in Adam-ondi-Ahman in 1838 and abandoned later that year because of the events of the Mormon War. In 1839, the main church pole was erected in Nauvoo, Illinois, with William Marks as its president.
Additional bets were established in the area around Nauvoo in 1840. Immediately after the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, there was a schism in the Latter-day Saint movement. In 1846, all the pegs, including the Nauvoo Stake, were stopped as a result of the exodus of the Latter-day Saint majority into the Salt Lake Valley.
Maps Stake (Latter Day Saints)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the greatest denomination in the Latter-day Saint movement. After Joseph Smith's death, Brigham Young took over the leadership of the church and led its members to the Salt Lake Valley. The first post established there is the Salt Salt Stakes, which was established October 3, 1847, with John Smith as president. At the time of Young's death in 1877, there were 20 pegs operating with a total of about 250 wards.
New bets are created when the congregation in the existing district or district has grown enough to support a stake. The districts may be appointed to the territories and then no longer led by the mission president. New bets are also often formed by dividing existing shares (or by making three pegs from two bets available, etc.). In addition to the size and number of local congregations, the creation of a new stake also requires the Melchizedek Priesthood holder sufficient to fill the required leadership positions. Sometimes the absence of available leadership hampers the creation of new bets and the number of sessions in a stake can be much greater than usual. The geographical area covered by a stake varies between countries and regions based on membership density. In Utah, a stake may cover several square miles in the area. In contrast, stocks in other parts of the world may require thousands of square miles to provide sufficient number of members.
In December 2012, Jeffrey R. Holland organized 3,000 shares in Freetown, Sierra Leone. By the end of 2015, there are 3,174 stakes in the LDS Church. In December 2017, the LDS Church reported 3,341 pegs.
The stake organization
The stake is the middle level in the LDS Church organization hierarchy. The lowest level, consisting of one congregation, is known as a ward or branch. The bet is set from a group of neighborhoods or adjacent branches. Created, a stake must consist of at least five environments. A stake may have up to 16 hearings. Most pegs consist of five to ten environments. In the United States and Canada, it takes at least 3,000 members to make a bet; elsewhere, a minimum of 1,900 members is required. In order for the stake to be created, there must be at least 99 active and full paying Melchizedek priesthood holders who live on the stake boundaries.
The stakes can be compared to the dioceses in other Christian denominations. However, most Catholic dioceses are much bigger than LDS ownership. In terms of size, though less familiar, comparable units in hierarchical churches such as the Catholic Church may be the deen, which often consists of ten to twenty parishes. LDS Church Bets generally have less than 5,000 members, while the Catholic diocese averages 250,000, but sometimes has more than one million members.
Stake Officers
The chief officer in a stake is known as the stake president. The President is assisted by two counselors and all three together form the stake presidency. The stake presidency is assisted by a twelve-member body, called the high council peg . The members of the stake presidency and the stake high council hold the priestly office of the high priest. The stake presidency and the high council handle administrative and judicial affairs from the stake. The three members of the stake presidency are given the honorary title of "President".
In areas where there were insufficient congregations to form pegs, a district was established to oversee the congregations. The officer in charge of a district is called the district president. The district president may or may not have a counselor, depending on the number of members in the district. District councils of up to twelve individuals may also be established. The task to be implemented by the stake presidency in a stake is shared between the district presidency and the mission presidency in a district.
In addition to the presidency and high council, stake auxiliary leaders are called in to oversee the operations of various auxiliary organizations from the stake. The stake auxiliaries relate to environmental auxiliaries, and include Stewart Relief (church women's organizations), Pratama Pasak (for children under 12 years of age), Stake Young Men and Young Women (for adolescents 12 to 18 years of age) , and Stake Sunday School organizations. Typically, stake level organization leadership consists of a presidency (consisting of a president and two counselors), a secretary, and possibly additional assistants or board members with special responsibilities within the organization. Stake auxiliary leaders provide oversight, advice and advice to environmental organization leaders and organize stake activities. Other stake specialists can be called to organize events - usually sports or drama programs - which are more suitable for the larger number of people available for the stake and may be difficult for the ward to do on their own. The stake auxiliary leaders, especially in the Young Men and Young Women organizations, can also coordinate activities with other bets in public areas as well. This is especially common from teenage dances, and sometimes from youth conferences.
All stake leaders are lay members who serve without pay. Today, stake presidents generally serve for seven to eleven years. In the past, tenure varied greatly, with some stake presidents serving for decades.
stake conference
Each stake will hold a stake conference twice a year under the direction of the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The stake president presides at these conferences, unless there is a general authority or area of ​​seventy assigned to the conference. The stake president is responsible for organizing conferences or assisting in doing so under the direction of the general authority or territory of the seventy as directed. Conferences are used to conduct stake business (especially the appointment and retention of stake officials) and to disseminate advice and guidance from the stake presidency. Speakers at stake conferences generally include three members of the stake presidency and other stake members, summoned by the stake presidency, to speak on the assigned topic. When a public official or a region of seventy people, he is the keynote speaker.
General sessions (for all stake members) are usually held on Sundays. This general session can be held in a local tabernacle if available. If held in the stake center, public sessions can be divided into sessions, by neighborhood, so that all stake members can be accommodated in the building. Sessions for all adult members are generally held on Saturday night before. Priesthood leadership sessions are also held in conjunction with stake conferences. Some stakes are geographically large enough that multiple stake conference sessions may be held in different locations to accommodate those living in remote areas.
Multi-site stake conferences have become more common in today's stake conference structure. As the number of stakes continues to grow, it becomes more difficult for the general authorities to visit stake conferences, even semi-regularly. Area and regional conferences have organized efforts to address this situation. A format has grown in the church so betting groups are set to receive satellite broadcasts from Salt Lake City. Using the recording studio at the Conference Center, the public authorities gave lectures broadcast to each designated pole. Each stake performs its own opening and opening prayers and runs its own business before the broadcast begins. Another advantage of this format is that in geographically large bets it is easier to hold stake conferences in more than one location.
Stake center
In each stake, one of the meetinghouses is designated as a stake center . The building is usually the largest meetinghouse in the stake, but where a large stake in the stake center area can be chosen because it is more centrally located on the border of the region. The stake center is where the stake functions such as stake conferences, stake meetings, and stake activities are usually held. There is usually an office to do a stake business in the stake center. During the mid- to late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in areas with larger LDS populations, postal pegs were used for most of the larger activities currently performed in the stake centers, while the stake offices located in a place known as the bookmaker . In areas with fewer members and no stake tabernacles, a stakeholder is used like a modern peg center for meetings and offices.
District
The church district is a geographical administrative unit consisting of a number of congregations called branches. The district is part of the mission of the church and is in many ways analogous to a church pillar. The district leader is the mission president, who elects the local district president as his agent. The district president can choose two people to help him; they form a district presidency together.
Community of Christ
The Community of Christ (formerly The Church of Reorganization of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) omits the appointment of "pegs" as administrative units. The Church is now organized into a "mission center".
Strangites
Historically, the Strangites retained the stakes in Voree, Wisconsin; Kirtland, Ohio; and in Beaver Island, Michigan, but today the church has only one share in Voree.
See also
- Area (LDS Church)
- Gathering (LDS Church)
- The pegs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Note
References
Smith's, Joseph Fielding (1973). Key points in Church History . Deseret Book Company. ISBNÃ, 0-87747-081-2.Source of the article : Wikipedia
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