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African American History Month
February 3-7: African American History through the Arts
February 6: Read to Succeed
February 15:
Fun Day and Step Workshop
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February 20: Soul Food Luncheon
February 21-23:Annual R.A. Terrell Sr. Adult Men
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Thursday, February 6, 2003
STATE
THE BATTALION
Mormon churches thriving
Texas Latter-day Saints numbers grow
By Eileen E. Flynn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — As the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints experienced unprecedent
ed growth from 1990 to 2000,
the membership in Central
Texas multiplied at an even
faster clip. With two chapels
planned in the Village of Bee
Cave and Pflugerville, the
church is still growing in the
Austin area, local officials say.
“We’re seeing that through
out the nation, people want to be
more involved with their reli
gion and with their families, the
things that have lasting value,”
said Preston Gee, high councilor
of the Austin, Texas Oak Hills
Stake, a local church body.
Church members, commonly
referred to as Mormons, trace
their origins to Joseph Smith,
who they believe received reve
lations to create the church in
1830. Smith and his followers
were rejected and forced out of
New York.
After Smith was killed in
Illinois, Brigham Young led
thousands to Utah, where the
church headquarters is now.
In addition to the Bible,
church members follow the
Book of Mormon, which they
say was written by prophets liv
ing in North America who
received a visitation from Christ
after his resurrection.
From 1990 to 2000, church
membership in Central Texas
climbed from roughly 9,800 to
13,300, an increase of 36 per
cent, almost double the national
growth of 19.3 percent. Church
officials project about 15,800
members for 2003.
Gee said the church reaped
the benefits of Austin’s high-
tech boom through the people
who migrated here from other
parts of the country, especially
the West, where there is a high
er concentration of Mormons.
“We felt that initial wave in
the early ’90s, when we started
seeing the church really starting
to grow,” he said. The faith con
tinues to thrive. Gee added,
because of successful mission
ary work.
There used to be a
Utah Mormon
stereotype as a type of
person, and thafsjust
fading... ifs a church
for everyone.
— Claire Lindsey
Barton Creek ward member
Like other Christians who
are seen as conservative.
Mormons’ numbers rose in the
past decade in distinct contrast
with their moderate and liberal
counterparts, according to a sur
vey, 2000 Religious
Congregations & Membership,
released last fall.
Of all the denominations.
Mormons grew the fastest. With
4.2 million believers, the church
is the country’s sixth-largest
denomination. It has made even
greater strides in Latin America.
“Because it’s become such a
worldwide church now, it’s no
longer so much of a Utah or an
American church,” said Mark
Palmer, president of the Oak
Hills stake, which has a collec
tion of wards, much like parish
es in the Catholic Church.
The church’s emergence on
the world stage, even its
stronger presence in Texas, is
leading to an erosion of mis
conceptions and stereotypes,
members say.
“There used to be a Utah
Mormon stereotype as a type of
person, and that’s just fading
because we’re so multicultural
now ... We have so many lan
guages, cultures, backgrounds,”
said Claire Lindsey, who, with
her husband and three children,
is a member of the Barton Creek
Ward. “It’s a church for every
one.”
Though some denominations
argue that Mormons are not
Christian because of their belief
in modem prophets and apostles
and their use of the Book of
Mormon, Gee said the church
has more in common with other
Christians than many people
realize. The church, he said, is
focused on Christ and promotes
family and faith as the top prior
ities.
Evangelism is key, and thou
sands of young men and women
take sabbaticals each year to
embark on missionary assign
ments. Mormons also adhere to
strict rules of behavior and for
bid smoking; consuming drugs,
alcohol and caffeine; and having
premarital sex.
People who have seen friends
and neighbors live out the moral
codes are often attracted to the
church, said Leigh Germann, a
mother of five. “I know that we
have many people who live
locally who have chosen to join
the church either because the
missionaries have found them,.,
or, more often than not, they’ve
known somebody and had an
opportunity to get to know about
the church,” she said.
Another indication of church
growth is the number of tem
ples, holy sanctuaries open only
to church m embers for special
ceremonies such as baptisms of;
deceased relatives and eternal
marriages. Temples are built i'
areas where followers are gro» j
ing and active.
Dell eliminates the floppy
NEWS IN BRIEF
AUSTIN (AP) — Floppy
disk drives will soon be history
at Dell Computer Corp.
The company plans to stop
installing the drives on high-end
Dimension computers next
month and offer them only as an
option, Dell spokesman Lionel
Menchaca said Wednesday.
For years, computer users
stored data on portable 3-1/2-
inch floppy disks. The plastic
square disks can hold up to 1.44-
megabytes of information.
But Round Rock, Texas-
based Dell has seen customers
moving toward newer, larger
capacity technology — especial
ly portable hard drives and
rewriteable CDs.
“The utility of a floppy disk
is just no longer there for most
users,” said Tim Bajarin, presi
dent of Creative Strategies, a
technology consulting firm in
San Jose, Calif.
Floppy disks long ago ceded
their turf as the delivery medium
for software — CD ROMs and
the Internet now handle that
task. And many people find a
1.44 MB disk too small to han
dle the daily data of a digital life
— photos, MP3 files, e-mail
records.
Dell brand 16-megabyte
USB flash memory drives will
be offered standard in
Dimension’s high-end model
first and the company will con
sider making it available on all
desktops depending on customer
response, Menchaca said. The
keychain-sized USB drives will
cost the same as floppy drives,
he said.
“We’ve heard from other
vendors that they’ve been actu
ally questioning the need for
floppy drives in light of the key-
chain storage devices that have
come onto the market,” Bajarin
said.
Persuading some desktop
users to drop the floppy could be
a challenge, which is why Dell
is moving slowly, Menchaca
said. The company no longer
provides floppy drives on stan
dard notebook computers.
Apple Computer Inc.
stopped including floppy disk
drives in Macintosh computers
five years ago.
Arson leads to
6-year-old's death
BIG SPRING, Texas (AP)-
officials have ruled arson caused
an early morning house firelaft
26 where the body of a 6
old girl was found.
Miguel Lopez Jr., 18, of (
N.M., has been charged
murder in the death of I
Nieto. Preliminary autopsf
results showed the child was
sexually assaulted and strau
gled, officials have said.
Lopez and Nieto are cousins
Lopez was visiting relatives
the house as was Nieto, whose
family lives in Big Spring,
cials have said.
Family members extinguished
the fire and the girl was trans
ported to Scenic Mountain
Medical Center where she wa
pronounced dead.
"The nature of fire set cleafl
ruled out any type of accident,
Big Spring Fire Marshal Cad
Condray said in Wednesda/s
online edition of the Big Spri
Herald.
Condray said a liquid w
poured to help spread the fire.
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