Our Ward Family

Our weekly family get-togethers are scheduled for Sunday morning at church and Monday evening in our Colonial Court social room.  Our ward and group families bring me joy, and everyone is invited to be with us.  These regular meetings offer opportunities to learn, serve, and socialize with neighbors.  (An attraction on Mondays is the linger longer with food, like my wife Kay & I enjoyed organizing for our Ogden ward family at the end of Sunday meetings.)

Members and friends of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are familiar with ward and stake units, organized worldwide with priesthood leadership and sister presidencies to provide guidance and support for individuals and families living within their boundaries.  Wards typically consist of a neighborhood or community with a few hundred in the congregation, and stakes encompass several wards.  Stakes often include a branch for a special facility or a population striving to grow and become a ward.

When our family of three little sons lived on the Avenues in Salt Lake City, our historic ward was a loving, extended family for us.  It was remarkably cohesive and balanced with members of all ages.  Thanks to a young bishop and a devoted sister, its family history was compiled, written, and published, copyright 1981.  Live Together in Love — a History of the Ensign Third Ward is hardbound with 446 pages of text and photos dating back to 1913, plus the 36-page Index.  This is a family treasure to be shared with our posterity and dear friends.  It’s about love for our Savior and each other.

view from our Ogden meetinghouse

after church, 8 March 2020