Nicaragua Latter-day Saints celebrate 70 years of the Church in the country
Members of the Church took part in community service projects to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the gospel in Nicaragua
Members of the Rivas Ward in the Jinotepe Nicaragua Stake take part in a service project in Rivas, Nicaragua, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Church in the country in September 2023.
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Nicaragua Latter-day Saints celebrate 70 years of the Church in the country
Members of the Church took part in community service projects to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the gospel in Nicaragua
Members of the Rivas Ward in the Jinotepe Nicaragua Stake take part in a service project in Rivas, Nicaragua, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Church in the country in September 2023.
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Seventy years have passed since the beginnings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nicaragua, and to celebrate, members of the Church in the Central American country recently participated in several community service projects and activities.
They are planning to have more activities during the next two months and will be having a big celebration in December for the 70th anniversary.
Latter-day Saints from the Jinotepe Nicaragua Stake cleaned, raked and weeded at schools, hospitals, nursing homes, maternity homes and more in September.
Members of the Jinotepe Nicaragua Stake clean up in their community to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Church in the country in September 2023.
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Their purpose was to benefit the students, patients and other recipients of services at those locations so that they would have more pleasant and clean places to stay.
And around 60 members of the Chinandega Nicaragua West Stake cleaned at the José Rubí Health Center in the city of El Viejo. The center serves between 600 and 700 patients a day. The Latter-day Saint volunteers cleaned the grounds, corridors and interior areas of the building.
Members of the Chinandega Nicaragua West Stake take part in a service project to clean in and around the José Rubí Health Center in El Viejo, Nicaragua, in September 2023.
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The service projects were a way for Church members to share their joy and their love for their neighbors, reported the Church’s Nicaragua Newsroom.
In November 1952, Elders Spencer W. Kimball and Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles visited Nicaragua to prepare the country for the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Two missionaries from the Central American Mission entered Nicaragua in 1953, and the following April had their first baptism.
The most recent numbers from ChurchofJesusChrist.org list 101,361 members of the Church in Nicaragua, organized into 38 branches and 71 wards in 12 stakes.
Ground was broken for the Managua Nicaragua Temple — the country’s first — on Nov. 26, 2022.
Two full-time missionaries in the Nicaragua Managua South Mission serving in the Chinandega Nicaragua West Stake clean up tree branches and leaves as part of a service project in El Viejo, Nicaragua, in September 2023.
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Members of the Jinotepe Ward take part in a service project in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Church in the country in September 2023.
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