Florida Orlando Mission 2010-2013: STUART ZONE

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

STUART ZONE

You should know that the Stuart Zone was transferred into the Ft. Lauderdale Mission last Friday. This was brought about because of the growth of the church and particularly the announcement of the new Ft. Lauderdale Temple. The Stuart Stake was then put into the Ft. Lauderdale Coordinating Council. This then made it necessary to include the missionary work under the same coordinating council.
Although, we are sorry to see these missionaries be reassigned to a new mission, they will be a blessing and be blessed in moving the work of proclaiming the gospel forward. The minute a new temple is announced the missionary work accelerates.

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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.