Ausborne Blog

The Bend Stake has had a new stake center built and it’s really beautiful. I got to walk through it this evening and I’m just amazed at how nice it is. One other item of note is that it’s REALLY big, especially when you consider the two other church buildings we have here in Bend. The one that my ward meets at is down on the corner of Tekampe and Knott roads, and it’s only half a building. Apparently, there was a bunch of local opposition when we were trying to build that building, so we couldn’t build it as big as we were hoping.  In fact, it looks like it’s only half of the building that it was designed to be. I honestly don’t mind because we now have three buildings in Bend to support our four wards and one branch, which is more than enough real estate to last us another 15 years.

One relatively local building that I’ve seen that is pretty unique is the one that houses the Sisters Branch, which is part of the Redmond Stake. While my church building is about half the normal size, the Sisters Branch building is only half of THAT. In fact, it’s probably only about 75 to 100 feet long. It’s tiny! Melanie and I were thinking that it would be kind of fun to move into such a small ward/branch, and increase the membership by 6-7 people in one fell swoop. We already have some friends in that branch who moved there with their 6 kids, so it would be kind of fun going there.