2017, November 18, Harmony Branch disolved
I'm not doing a good job with my journal entries... nearly six months since my last one. I taught a Gospel Doctrine lesson last week that included an urging for us all to write in a journal and/or our life history. The reason given was the best I've seen so far. In Family Search there is a place for information about the lives of the people who are in our various families. I got to thinking about what my sons and their off spring might know about me and decided to try again.
It should be noted that I have made life histories and journal entries in the past but they have all been misplaced. So I will repent and move forward.
Yesterday was an interesting day in the church here in Kentucky and Indiana. Due to growth, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve authorized some massive changes in boundaries of wards, branches and stakes. Five stakes, Evansville, Indiana; New Albany, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Lexington North, Kentucky; and Crestwood, Kentucky were affected and a new Elizabethtown, Kentucky stake was established. There was a lot of confusion and the Area Authority Seventy, Mike Gillenwater, made some mistakes in announcing some of the changes and this has caused some confusion which will certainly be straightened out eventually. One of the main causes of confusion was the disbanding of our Harmony Branch. Here's how that got so confusing:
Harmony Branch members live in Jefferson County, Kentucky and Oldham County, Kentucky. All of the members of Harmony Branch who live in Oldham County will become members of Crestwood First Ward in Crestwood Stake, which has been meeting at 1:00 PM in the temple chapel. These members were instructed to attend the regular Crestwood First Ward sacrament meeting yesterday at 1:00 PM.
Harmony Branch members living in Jefferson County were instructed to attend the** Louisville Stake** Conference meeting at 10 AM yesterday.
At the Louisville Stake conference, presided over by Elder LeGrand R. Curtis, Jr of the First Quorum of Seventy, All of the changes were presented including the establishment of the Elizabethtown Stake. The changes were presented by Elder Gillenwater, an Area Authority Seventy. The changes took over forty pages and there was bound to be some confusion and there was.
Harmony Branch members living in Jefferson County East of the Gene Snyder Freeway will become members of the Louisville Third Ward which currently meets at 9 AM in the temple chapel. Harmony Branch members in Jefferson County living west of the Gene Snyder Freeway will be in Louisville 1st ward. Members of Crestwood First Ward (Crestwood Stake) who live in Jefferson County will also become members of Louisville Third Ward.
So far, so good.
Then Elder Gillenwater mistakenly announced that the members of Harmony Branch and Crestwood First ward should attend the 1 PM meeting at the temple chapel (Crestwood First Ward in Crestwood Stake). He obviously (to me) was referring to those Oldham County members who would now be in Crestwood First Ward but none of them were present having been previously advised to be at said 1 PM meeting. Instead, many of the members of Harmony Branch and Crestwood First ward who were now part of Louisville Third Ward interpreted the announcement as meaning that they should also go to the 1 PM meeting and many did so. Fortunately Bishop Nixon of Crestwood First Ward (who was released later in the meeting and replaced by President Dewsnup of Harmony Branch) announced the proper assignments and confusion was lessening.
Anyway, it's been exciting and I'm looking forward to attending Louisville Third Ward next Sunday at 9 AM.
Historic Note: Sulphur Well Branch formerly of Louisville Stake but now part of the new Elizabethtown Stake was made a ward. That branch is said to be the first branch of the church in Kentucky and was established in the 1890s.
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