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New stake presidencies

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14 June 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
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Church News Archives
14 June 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
A new stake has been created in Montana. The Glendive Montana Stake, which includes the Glasgow, Glendive, Miles City and Sidney wards, and
the Baker, Ekalaka, Jordan, Plenty-wood, Poplar and Wolf Point branches, has been created by Elder V. Dallas Merrell of the Seventy.
Elsewhere, stakes have been reorganized in Canada, Colombia, Japan and Uruguay, and in Arizona, California, Idaho, Michigan, New York and
Oregon.New stake
GLENDIVE MONTANA STAKE: (May 4, 1997) Created from the Montana East District. President - Larry N. Wolf, 54, self-employed farmer and
retired from Montana Department of Transportation; wife, Sandra Kaye Keller Wolf. Counselors - Jay C. Harvey, 43, field maintenance supervisor
for Montana Department of Transportation; wife, Denise Renea Oberlander Harvey. James F. Steffen, 45, general manager for Cross Petroleum
Service; wife, Terry Marcine Orcott Steffen.
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Stake reorganizations
CALGARY ALBERTA WEST CANADA STAKE: (March 2, 1997) President - Richard K. Melchin, 50, president of Three Sisters Developments;
succeeding Donald V. Steele; wife, Catherine Kimball Corbett Melchin. Counselors - Klaus D. Seidel, 50, president and owner of United Drywall
Ltd.; wife, Peggy Parker Seidel. Howard P. Heninger, 51, president of Nortech Holdings Inc.; wife, Sharene Brooks Heninger.
GILBERT ARIZONA STAPLEY STAKE: (April 13, 1997) President - Greg Jofre Stradling, retained. Counselors - Duane L. Standage, 39,
president of Classy Closets Etc. Inc.; wife, Jill Andreasen Standage. Stanley J. Church, 48, general manager for Lumberjack Building Materials;
wife, Susan Snedigar Church.
IDAHO FALLS IDAHO NORTH STAKE: (May 4, 1997) President - Dale L. Mickelsen, 53, owner and manager of farms and related agriculture
businesses; succeeding Jerry Wayne
Hatch; wife, Garna Hix Mickelsen. Counselors - Jerry L. Wixom, 52, owner of Metcalf-Anderson Inc.; wife, Ruth Ann Davis Wixom. Robert S.
Bishop, 39, owner of R.S.B. Construction; wife, Teresa Ann Leavitt Bishop.
LA GRANDE OREGON STAKE: (May 4, 1997) President - Lynn R. Harris, 50, dentist; succeeding Howard Lee Perry; wife, Jan Lund Harris.
Counselors - Russell L. Perry, 46, owner of Fashion Floors; wife, Wendy Lee Orton Perry. Dale B. Bingham, 54, partner of Bingham & Bingham
CPA's; wife, Leslie Elizabeth Stephens Bingham.
MEDELLIN COLOMBIA STAKE: (May 4, 1997) President - Henry Alexander Gamba, 32, administrator for Herando Trujillo Co.; succeeding
Pedro Nel Cardona Zuluaga; wife, Orfa Inirida Munoz L. de Gamba. Counselors - Josue Ferney Cardona G., 26, bank teller for Colmena
Corporation; wife, Doris Angela Betancur P. de Cardona. Guillermo Manuel Quinones C., retained.
MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY WEST STAKE: (April 20, 1997) President - Sergio Omar Pricoli C., 42, Church Educational System coordinator;
succeeding Juan Antonio Etchegaray; wife, Raquel Edelma Porley L. de Pricoli. Counselors - Victor Pintos C., 51, city collector; wife, Noelia
Antonia Rodriguez A. de Pintos. Jose Carlos Silva A., 38, director of private institute; wife, Olga Elizabeth Grajales N. de Silva.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA STAKE: (May 4, 1997) President - Ronald V. Smith, 57, director of advertising and public relations for
Clougherty Packing; succeeding Arlan Wallace Woodward; wife, Margaret Kaye Anderson Smith. Counselors - Craig C. Garrick, 42, chief
executive officer for Airmotive Holdings Inc.; wife, Barbara Horton Garrick. Joseph E. Morris, 64, manager of Church bishops storehouse; wife,
Dennise Larsen Morris.
OSAKA JAPAN NORTH STAKE: (Feb. 16, 1997) President - Masaatsu Iwaki, 44, development and research department manager for Yano
Economy Institute Inc.; succeeding Juujirou Makise; wife, Yasuko Mori Iwaki. Counselors - Masakata Iwata, 55, credit guarantee service center
executive officer for Osaka-fu Credit Gurantee Association; wife, Yoshiko Ohtori Iwata. Yosuke Yamazaki, 35, owner of Yamazaki Production
Office; wife, Yukie Tanaka Yamazaki.
OWEGO NEW YORK STAKE: (March 16, 1997) President - Shelley M. Beckstrand, retained. Counselors - John Edward Majeroni, retained. Kirk
B. Bush, 41, staff engineer for Lockheed-Martin; wife, Debra Ann Lindstrom Bush.
WESTLAND MICHIGAN STAKE: (May 18, 1997) President - Daniel F. Dunningan, 39, strategtic planner of manufacturing operations for Ford
Motor Co.; succeeding Lee P. Freeman; wife, Cindy Maria Arndt Dunnigan. Counselors - William K. Hutchinson, 43, financial analyst for Ford
Motor Co.; wife, Shirley Ann Hill Hutchinson. Robert L. Egbert, 41, agency director for LDS Social Services; wife, Diane Southworth Egbert.
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How the Church’s welcome centers are helping to bless the lives of immigrants and refugees
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Rachel Sterzer Gibson
June 16, 2021 4:26 p.m. EDT
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Welcome center coordinator Lorrie Curriden checks in immigrants at a welcome center in East Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 27, 2021.
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A woman concentrates on the English lesson being taught to immigrants at the Mesa Arizona Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
Sister missionary Arianna Mestre helps an immigrant check in at a welcome center in East Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 27, 2021.
Dan and Lorrie Curriden volunteer at a welcome center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Las Vegas, Nevada, April 27,
2021. This is one of two centers in Las Vegas. There are more than a dozen welcome centers throughout North America.
Latter-day Saint volunteer Wayne Arnett teaches English to an immigrant at the Mesa Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
A volunteer helps a group of immigrant learn new vocabulary during an English lesson at the Mesa Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
A missionary teachers English to immigrants at a welcome center in East Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 27, 2021.
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How the Church’s welcome centers are helping to bless the lives of immigrants and refugees
By
Rachel Sterzer Gibson
June 16, 2021 4:26 p.m. EDT
View 6 more
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A woman concentrates on the English lesson being taught to immigrants at the Mesa Arizona Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
Sister missionary Arianna Mestre helps an immigrant check in at a welcome center in East Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 27, 2021.
Dan and Lorrie Curriden volunteer at a welcome center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Las Vegas, Nevada, April 27,
2021. This is one of two centers in Las Vegas. There are more than a dozen welcome centers throughout North America.
Latter-day Saint volunteer Wayne Arnett teaches English to an immigrant at the Mesa Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
A volunteer helps a group of immigrant learn new vocabulary during an English lesson at the Mesa Welcome Center in Arizona on May 4, 2021.
A missionary teachers English to immigrants at a welcome center in East Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 27, 2021.
When Gesseca Hooeer of Ecuador first immigrated to the United States, she searched for resources around her to help her learn English. Finding the
Church’s Mesa Welcome Center in Arizona was a miracle, she said.
“This was the last option — and my best option, my best decision,” she told Newsroom.
The Mesa center is one of more than a dozen centers throughout seven states and one Canadian province operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints to help immigrants and refugees integrate into their new, foreign communities.
Among other services, Latter-day Saint volunteers help immigrants and refugees find access to community legal services, improve their English,
strengthen emotional resilience, progress on the path to citizenship and better understand American culture so that they can obtain better jobs and
live better lives.
Legal services are provided in partnership with local university law schools. All services are free.
“We connect our patrons with the resources in the community that they may need, whatever that resource might be,” said Lorrie Curriden, who
volunteers at the Las Vegas Welcome Center with her husband, Dan Curriden. “It’s wonderful to offer a full slate of services based on what people
need when they come through the door. Our goal is to help them determine their areas of greatest need and figure out a way we can help them.”

Dan and Lorrie Curriden volunteer at a welcome center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Las Vegas, Nevada,
April 27, 2021. This is one of two centers in Las Vegas. There are more than a dozen welcome centers throughout North America.
Elder Broc Hiatt, an Area Seventy, says the work of the centers transcends politics and recognizes the core identity of another person as a child of
God.
“It doesn’t matter how they got here,” Elder Hiatt said. “Our concern is that they are children of Heavenly Father, and they need help. We can
provide it, and we’ve covenanted to provide it. We are simply here to love Heavenly Father’s children and provide the help to them that He would
provide if He was here.”
Lorrie Curriden said their service is about following the example of Jesus Christ. “The Savior went about doing good,” she said. “He taught the
scriptures, but He also fed people, and He also healed people. He blessed their lives temporally as well as spiritually. That really feels like our
mission to do His work and follow the Spirit and the love of people in His name.”
Read more about how welcome centers are blessing the lives of individuals here.
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