Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013

Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Florida Orlando Mission has seven zones. Deland, Leesburg, Orlando, Orlando South, Hunters Creek, Cocoa, and Stuart. Our mission goes from Palm Coast on the Atlantic Ocean side to Inverness, down and over to Lake Buena Vista and down to Okeechobee and over to Palm Beach and all the way up the Atlantic coast back up to Palm Coast. Here's a map of the FOM.

We have been to all our missionaries' apartments in all the areas. Okeechobee is cowboy country, Cocoa is a vacation spot on the beach and there is all sorts of areas in between.

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nanamooAugust 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM
I never realized exactly how big the mission is until I saw that map!
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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.