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Faith Feast: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spokane Stake

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spokane Stake will be the final stop for Faith Feast: An Interfaith Progressive Dinner on March 30.

The dinner, a fundraiser for Spokane Faith & Values, will begin with appetizers at the The Spokane Buddhist Temple, then guests will travel to Temple Beth Shalom for an entree then have dessert at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spokane Stake.

About the stake 

The first LDS missionaries arrived in Spokane on Aug. 31, 1895, though the first LDS Sunday School wasn’t established until 1906, 11 years later. By 1947, there were enough baptized members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2,520 to be exact) to officially organize the Spokane Stake. Its original borders stretched from the Canadian border to the Columbia River, and from the Idaho/Montana border west almost to Moses Lake. The present stake center was dedicated in 1988 and serves approximately 5,000 Latter-day Saints in ten congregations, meeting in four buildings across the South Hill and part of northeast Spokane. Today, there are four additional stakes and an estimated 20,000 members of the Church in the greater Spokane area.

About the food

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints observe a health code called “The Word of Wisdom” canonized as Doctrine & Covenants section 89. The Word of Wisdom specifically includes prohibitions Mormons are well-known for: no smoking or chewing tobacco, and no drinking alcohol, coffee or tea. Less well-known is that it also includes counsel to eat healthfully, moderately and “with prudence and thanksgiving.”

Buy tickets to Faith Feast!

Suggested donation prices for tickets are $50 per person or $80 for a pair.

To purchase tickets, call 509-240-1830 or send an email [email protected]. To pay by credit card, use our site’s PayPal donation link at favs.news/support-us/, and make a note that your donation is for Faith Feast tickets.

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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