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Here are some upcoming events for the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors’ Center:
Textiles Exhibit
Now through end of April
Handmade quilts, embroidery, weaving, needlepoint, and counted cross stitch pieces are on display.
Fan-Ya Lin Concert
7:00 PM Saturday, 21 April 2012
Fan Ya Ling is a classically-trained pianist whose performance will entertain and thrill music lovers all ages, especially those who appreciate the music of the masters.
Night of Inspiration and Music
7:00 PM Sunday, 22 April 2012
Some of the DC – area’s most gifted LDS instrumentalists and vocalists will present a concert of spiritually uplifting music by noted composers Mendelssohn, Griggs, Tchaikovsky, Telemann and Brahms.
“Artist, Interrupted”
7:00 PM Saturday, 28 April 2012
Their name describes them perfectly. These are extremely creative women who temporarily suspended their lives as entertainers and artists to become business people, wives and mothers. They have come together to once again share their... Read the rest of this article »
The Washington, D.C. Mormon Temple Visitors’ Center is the first Mormon Temple to have its own Facebook page. This comes naturally since the visitors’ center hosts exhibits and world-class performances on a regular basis all year ’round. The URL for the Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-DC-Temple-Visitors-Center/228255190518950
Because messages sent out on Facebook reach a targeted audience within a second or two, and at no cost to either the sender or the receiver, political organizations, activists, businesses, law enforcement and communities are finding it an elegant tool for networking and news casting as well.
The Mormon Church (formally The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) has a prominent Facebook presence. On August 7th, on the blog site LDS Media Talk, blogger Larry Richman reported:
“Facebook.com/LDS Surpasses 500,000 Likes. This weekend, the official Facebook page for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... Read the rest of this article »
In 1839, Joseph Smith, first prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, visited the nation’s capitol with Elias Higbee to seek redress of grievances suffered by Church members in Missouri. The Latter-day Saints were suffering mightily in Missouri, where Governor Lilburn Boggs had issued an Extermination Order against the Mormons. In response, United States President Martin Van Buren reportedly said, “Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you.” The Saints were eventually driven out of Missouri during a bitter winter and sought refuge in Illinois. They prospered in Nauvoo, their own city, for five years, but then were driven out by persecution and mobs once again, Joseph Smith and his brother having been martyred. As they moved west to the Rocky Mountains, hundreds lost their lives.
Early Church members paid occasional visits to Washington, D.C., as they sought statehood for their newly-established communities in the Great... Read the rest of this article »