Presiding - Bishop Brandbold
Conducting - Bishop Brandvold
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Welcome and Announcements
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Opening Hymn - #228 You Can Make the Pathway Bright
Opening Prayer - Sister Brooklyn Peterson
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Ward and Stake Business
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Sacrament Hymn - #169 As Now We Take the Sacrament
Administration of the Sacrament
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Youth Speaker - Sister Charlotte Haslam
Speaker - Sister Hadley Barnes
Intermediate Hymn - #308 Love One Another
Speaker - Sister Dianne Bell
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Closing Hymn - #219 Because I Have Been Given Much
Closing Prayer - Brother Shaun Compton
The time has come for our semiannual Stake Conference, and we hope everyone is looking forward to being together. We invite you to Join us the weekend of September 14th and 15th as we learn, fellowship, and worship together.
Even though a broadcast will be available, we urge ALL to come in person and arrive early. We also invite all adults to a social for fellowship and dessert after the Saturday Adult Session.
Location: Prosper Texas Stake Center - 522 S Teel Parkway, Prosper, TX
Saturday, September 14th 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Stake & Ward Council Leadership Session
Invited: Stake council & their presidencies; members of ward councils & their presidencies; ward missionaries; ward temple & family history consultants (including youth)
Broadcast Link: Leadership Session
Saturday, September 14th 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Saturday Evening Adult Session
Invited: All adult members and friends | Spanish translation provided live at stake center
Broadcast Link: Saturday Evening Session
***Saturday, September 14th 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Saturday Evening Adult Social***
Invited: All adult members and friends - Opportunity for gathering and dessert!
Sunday, September 15th 10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday Morning General Session
Invited: All members and friends. All wards are invited to attend live or view the broadcast.
Please enter through north or south foyer doors | Please arrive early and be in you seats by 9:45 AM | Overflow seating in the RS & Primary Rooms | Spanish translation provided live at stake center
Broadcast Link: Sunday General Session
Join us at a celebration of world cultures! Prosper Texas Stake is hosting a festival to showcase food, music, and dance from around the world. Hispanic heritage is highlighted in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, and all other representation is also welcome!
See flyer for an outline of events. Stop in or stay a while! Don't miss the professional mariachi band at 4 pm or come and dance the evening away from 8 to 10 pm. Small bites will be served from about 4 to 7 pm (or until we run out), and stay for some entertainment from 5 to 8 pm.
If you would like to share your own heritage or even just one you love and know well (perhaps from missionary service), please contact one of our ward ambassadors for details and to sign up for food or an entertainment slot.
Sister Anna Hawkins and her husband Daniel Mann are our ward "ambassadors" for the sign ups to bring food or entertainment.
We will have a ward linger longer on Sunday September 29. Please bring your favorite conference treat, sweet or savory. Please meet in the cultural hall after church to enjoy food and fellowship.
For this school year our ward’s primary and youth activities will be on Wednesday nights. Activities will generally be held here at the church unless leaders notify you of a different location.
Stake Temple Week will be the week of September 17th. All members are encouraged to find a time to attend the temple that week. We encourage you to make an appointment now to secure your spot. The stake primary will be introducing an activity to help children participate. Our ward will have 3 times available for youth to attend the temple on either Tuesday or Wednesday that week. An email was sent with a link to sign up youth for those times; spots are limited so please sign up as soon as possible. Please contact John Hema if you need to meet with a member of the bishopric to renew your temple recommend so that you may attend.
If you would like to voice your support for the McKinney Temple please send an email to Israel Roberts/Fairview Town Planning Manager.
Email: iroberts@fairviewtexas.org
Subject should read: In Support of Temple
You can copy on the email: templeinfairview@gmail.com
Please use the following link to sign up for a time to feed the missionaries. Feel free to reach out to them with any questions. The Elders phone number is (972)214-4798.
Because we are now the last ward, we will have a regular schedule for building clean-up after church. See below for all clean-up responsibilities.
Deacons: Take down flag, empty garbages and diaper pails and reline cans in boys bathroom and small bathroom
Teachers: Empty garbage and reline cans in all classrooms and the sacrament prep room; clean out and put away sacrament trays
Young Women 12-14: Empty garbages and diaper pails and reline cans in women’s bathroom and mother’s room
Priests and YW 15-18: Take down chairs in RS, YW, Gym Overflow, and Primary rooms and set up for seminary
Elders: Take down chairs in larger part of gym
Primary/Youth: Put away chairs in the room they have class in
Bishopric: Lock up and turn off lights
We would love to have you join us at our adult institute class sponsored by the Prosper Stake. Class begins Wednesday, September 11th @ 9:30 am and runs through May 7th, located at 970 N. Coit in Prosper. We provide a nursery for those who RSVP. Our curriculum this year is "Women in the Scriptures" and our instructors are Shahna Argyle, Kristen Gurksnis, Amy Schelin, and Meredith Sonneborn. For more details and to be added to our class list, email us atadultreligionclass@gmail.com.
Mission Prep is at 7:00 PM at the Stake Center and is for all youth 15 years and older. Please see below for a list of all the dates for 2024.
September 8
October 13
November 10
December 8
After you receive a ward level temple recommend interview you will need to have a stake temple recommend interview. You can set that up with one of the stake presidency counselors through the following links.
Members can go to the following links to find dates, locations and times at their convenience to schedule themselves:
WWW.CALENDLY.COM/PROSPERSTAKEFIRSTCOUNSELOR (http://www.calendly.com/PROSPERSTAKEFIRSTCOUNSELOR)
WWW.CALENDLY.COM/PROSPERSTAKESECONDCOUNSELOR (http://www.calendly.com/PROSPERSTAKESECONDCOUNSELOR)
The week of every third Saturday will be our ward's temple week. Our next ward temple night will be Saturday September 21 at 7pm. If you cannot make this night please try and attend any session that week at the temple. Please don't forget that you need to sign up for a reservation.
If you are working with youth and have not taken the church's Youth Protection Training in the past three years, please follow this link to take the class. It takes about 30 minutes.
Please click on the link for the month of September Primary newsletter.
We have a live video feed for our meeting today. However, due to the sacred nature of the sacrament we won’t broadcast the ordinance of the sacrament. The zoom link to the live video feed is below. Any questions or issues please reach out to Brother Creel.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
If you would like to view and share inspirational stories and good news going on in our stake and throughout North Texas, please follow the the Facebook Page called Church of Jesus Christ in North Texas here. You can also read stories and learn more about service opportunities and efforts in North Texas on a separate JustServe North Texas Page here.
The local full-time missionaries maintain a Facebook Page as well and would appreciate your likes, comments, and shares on their posts to help them share messages of testimony and goodness! Follow them here.
Other stake- or ward-affiliated private Facebook groups exist and you can join by request:
Prosper Stake Relief Society Group on Facebook
Preston Trail Ward Relief Society on Facebook or join on GroupMe
Prosper Stake Youth or on Instagram @prosper_stake_youth
Prosper Stake Primary on Facebook
General Addiction
Thursday's 8:00 pm at the Prosper Building, (970 N. Coit Rd., Prosper). For those who struggle with any addiction, men and women welcome. They meet in the Relief Society Room.
Addiction Recovery - Pornography - Men Only
Currently via Zoom. Sunday evenings at 8:30 pm. Contact Elder Dennis Shanklin for Zoom link at 818 378 1603.
For any questions please feel free to reach out to Elder Hudson (972)890-7553 or Sister Hudson (972)890-7554 or our High Council support Brother Sallaway (832)233-8328.
Members who want to attend the Dallas Texas Temple to perform proxy ordinances now have the option to either schedule an appointment or attend without an appointment, where space is available.
As priority will be given to members with appointments, those who attend without an appointment may be asked to wait for an opportunity to participate. As it has always been, appointments will still be necessary for all members who come to receive their own ordinances (endowment and sealing).
You are encouraged to attend the temple as often as your circumstances allow.
You can reserve an appointment on https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org, in the Member Tools app, or by calling the temple. Also you may now schedule multiple appointments for any ordinance in any temple.
Emergency Outdoor Water Sources:
If you need to find water outside your home, you can use these sources- Rainwater, streams, rivers, and other moving bodies of water, ponds and lakes and natural springs. Be sure to purify the water before drinking it. Avoid water with floating material, an odor or dark color. Use saltwater only if you distill it first. You should not drink flood water.