News Item: Dedication date set for temple in Vancouver, B.C.
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The First Presidency has announced the dates for the open house, cultural celebration and dedication of the Vancouver British Columbia Temple.
The public open house for the temple will be held Friday, April 9 through Saturday, April 24, 2010 (except Sundays).
The youth cultural celebration will be held Saturday, May 1.
The temple will be dedicated Sunday, May 2, in three sessions (9 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.). The three dedicatory sessions will be broadcast to all of the Church units in the temple district.
The Vancouver British Columbia Temple will open for ordinances Monday, May 3.
The First Presidency announced, in a letter to priesthood leaders on May 25, 2006, that a temple would be built in Vancouver. The letter from the First Presidency stated that "this will be a blessing to the many faithful saints in this and surrounding areas who have had to travel long distances to enjoy the blessings of the temple. ... We commend the saints for their devotion and faithfulness and are thankful for the blessings that will come to them through the construction of this new temple."
Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Presidency of the Seventy broke ground for the new temple on Aug. 4, 2007.
"When completed, this most beautiful temple will fulfill multiple purposes," he said during the groundbreaking event that was attended by nearly 400 members. "It is a place of prayer and a place of learning. The temple is a place of instruction, a place of revelation and sacred ordinances that are performed here. When worthy members of our Church enter this temple, they will leave their worldly cares and concerns outside and enter a place of peace and meditation."
The new temple will be Canada's seventh and the first in British Columbia. Since the dedication of the Cardston Alberta Temple in August 1923 by President Heber J. Grant, temples have been built in the nation from coast to coast.
Temples are located in Toronto, Ontario, dedicated August 1990; Regina, Saskatchewan and Halifax, Nova Scotia, dedicated November 1999; Edmonton, Alberta, dedicated December 1999; and Montreal, Quebec, dedicated June 2000. Another temple to be built in Calgary, Alberta, was announced in October 2008.
Church News (Dec 5, 2009
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