Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Friday, October 12, 2012

Elder W. Craig Zwick

Elder W. Craig Zwick was the General Authority for our Mission Tour this October 10-11, 2012.
Elder W. Craig Zwick was sustained as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 1, 1995. He served as president of the Brazil, Brazil South, and North America Northeast Areas. He has also served in the presidencies of the Europe West and Europe Central Areas. He is currently serving as an Assistant Executive Director of both the Missionary Department and the Correlation Department. Elder Zwick received a bachelor of science degree in business management and finance from the University of Utah. He is a former president and chief executive officer of Zwick Construction Company. He has served the Church as a full-time missionary in the North Argentina Mission and as president of the Chile Santiago South Mission (1989-1992). William Craig Zwick was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 30, 1947. He married Janet Johnson in 1969. They are the parents of four children and have fifteen grandchildren.

Elder Zwick told the missionaries to rise to a new sense of commitment, all that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement and be dependent on the Lord.

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FLORIDA ORLANDO MISSION HISTORY

Florida has a deep Mormon heritage, going back as far as 1843. Traveling elders were occasionally sent into Florida until the Florida conference was officially organized November 1, 1895, which conference was within the Southern States Mission. In 1937, the first chapel in central Florida was built in Orlando. In 1950, the church established what is now officially called Deseret Cattle and Citrus Ranch in Osceola County, southeast of Orlando. Today the Church owns 316,000 acres covering three counties, making it the largest cattle ranch in Florida. Orlando was the second Florida stake, and was organized on February 23, 1958.

On November 1, 1960 the Florida Mission was created out of the Southern States Mission. This was the fist mission for the State of Florida. The original Florida mission was divided into the Florida South Mission July 1, 1971, then later into the Ft. Lauderdale Mission (June 1974); the Tampa Mission being created in 1976, and the Jacksonville Mission in July of 1987.

The Florida Orlando Mission is now graced to have within its boundaries the Church Ranch and the first temple of the church in Florida, the Orlando Temple.