FARMINGTON – Services at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on West Apache Street have relocated as the result of a fire that occurred over the weekend at the chapel.
Firefighters responded to the blaze around 4 a.m. Saturday and extinguished the fire in about two hours, according to a news release from the city of Farmington.
Georgette Allen, the city’s spokeswoman, said Monday that the investigation into what caused the fire continues and no further information is available.
The news release said the San Juan County Fire Investigation Task Force is working with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the investigation.
The federal agencies are assisting the task force because the fire occurred at a church, which sustained smoke and fire damage, according to the release.
Seth Bingham, a spokesman for the Farmington stake, or district, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church, said the damage was still being assessed.
Stake President Brent Farnsworth was among those who entered the building late Saturday to review damage, and he noticed that the fire-grade doors in the foyer prevented the fire from spreading, Bingham said.
Among the items lost in the foyer were displays assembled by the three congregations that use the building: the Farmington 2nd Ward, the Farmington 4th Ward and the Farmington 7th Ward.
Each has up to 500 members, and each service on Sundays is attended by up to 200 members, Bingham said.
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“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
Stake President Brent Farnsworth was among those who entered the building late Saturday to review damage, and he noticed that the fire-grade doors in the foyer prevented the fire from spreading, Bingham said.
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― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
That activity percentage is extrapolated from an off the cuff remark in a story that had nothing to do with membership numbers. Making that inference sounds positively apologetic.
moksha wrote:That activity percentage is extrapolated from an off the cuff remark in a story that had nothing to do with membership numbers. Making that inference sounds positively apologetic.
A local Church spokesperson, giving a formal response to a journalist about a fire, stating that (for each of the 3 Farmington wards) out of 500 members less than 200 show up on any given Sunday is neither an extrapolation on my part, nor an off the cuff comment on theirs.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
huckelberry wrote:Is there something new or remarkable about such a percentage? I do not know for sure but it sounds rather ordinary.
No, nothing special, other than confession by the Mormon corporation that their attendance is not inline with what they project their membership numbers are. By stating that a normal congregation is 500 individuals and that normal attendance is only 200 individuals that mean that the 16.X million membership number is BULL crap.
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This might not end well for the spokesman. Revealing scared membership numbers could have repercussions. The church PR department is not to be trifled with.
Is it not open knowledge how many people are in the ward? Anyone can count the attendance. I remember the attendance number was listed on a little board in Chapel.
