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San Ramon Valley Mormons recently selected Jared Stone as their new president to oversee the six congregations that make up the Danville California Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Combined, these congregations comprise more than 2,500 church members in San Ramon, Danville and Alamo.
“Jani and I are humbled by the privilege of serving alongside many great men and women of the San Ramon Valley, and we look forward to sharing with families the message of love and hope that comes through and from our Savior, Jesus Christ,” Stone said, after being selected unanimously by more than 1,500 valley members in a recent meeting.
Stone, a Danville resident, is a managing director of Northgate Capital and will continue to work full-time in that capacity. Since its inception in 1830, the LDS Church has operated under the leadership of a lay clergy who carry on their professional roles in the community during the term of their volunteer church service.
Working with Stone in the new Stake Presidency are two counselors, businessmen David Fosson of San Ramon and Paul Clark of Alamo.
Finishing his term serving as Stake President is Steven Edgren and his counselors Richard Kopf and Michael Peterson, all long-time residents of the San Ramon Valley.
There are currently 2,865 stakes of the LDS Church worldwide, each led by a volunteer local Stake Presidency. The process of selecting a new Stake Presidency occurs approximately every nine years.
“We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof,” said Elder David A. Bednar, a member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “It is by inspiration, revelation and prophecy that we come to know whom the Lord has prepared to become the president.”
Elder Per G. Malm, a Church General Authority from Sweden, was recently sent by the Church’s First Presidency to preside over local services in Northern California, where he extended calls to the new Stake President and two counselors in the San Ramon Valley.
The Danville Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the San Ramon Valley. In January 1960, 210 members formed the first congregation, meeting in the old Grange Hall on Diablo Road in Danville. Today, the stake maintains three chapels — one in Danville on Old Orchard Road, one in Alamo on Stone Valley Road and one in San Ramon on Crow Canyon Road.
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Congratulations, Mr. Stone.
Who says these guys can’t get elected to anything?
Cardinal: Can’t you even take Thanksgiving off to stop your religious hatred of a entire faith? What a sad, empty life you must lead to have to spend so much time spewing your religious hatred.
My my, someone’s got their sacred underwear in a bunch this morning. I thought cardinal was just making a joke?
BTW NoMo, speaking of hatred, wasn’t it the LDS who originated proposition 8? Never mind, it’s a rhetorical question.
Ay-Caramba! I didn’t mean to start another holy war.
I guess it’s too soon? Happy Thanksgiving, EV-eryone!
Derek: Regilious hatred is never “a joke”, and your comnents about “sacred underwear” is also not funny. You and Cardinal are so predictable, claiming to be champions of diversity and supporting every liberal cause, but yet spewing non-stop vile hatred of an entire religion and their religious sacred symbols. You are truly ignorant, not realizing there is no difference between racial hatred and inappropriate racial “jokes” and religious hatred and inappropriate religious “jokes”.
Although I admit to no hatred, at all, and there’s a real world of difference between your two examples, my cookbook’s advice is to give the turkey a rest before proceeding.
Good advice for us both today, No More. I wish you every blessing of the day.
Jared is a nice guy. His family is nice too. His dog Scooter barks too much though, or so I’ve heard.
I think the crucial difference between most racial jokes and many religious jokes is the difference between status and actions — what people “are” vs. what they “do” in the name of something.
So, here are several religious jokes I think Are Funny. I will start with a few from my own tradition, just to demonstrate the truly ecumenical nature of this exercise:
What do you get if you cross a UU with a Jehovah’s Witness? Someone who’ll knock on your door for no apparent reason.
Why did the UU cross the road? To support the chicken in his search for his own path.
How many UUs does it take to screw in a lightbulb? “We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the light bulb. However, if you have found in your own journey that light bulbs work for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a poem or compose a modern dance about your personal relationship with your light bulb and present it next month at our annual light bulb Sunday service in which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including incandescent, fluorescent, three-way, long-life, and tinted, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.”
Why don’t Baptists make love standing up? Because if anyone saw them, he might think they were dancing.
See? Those aren’t so bad. If the spirit moves you, you’re invited to add your own below — but you have to include at least one that pokes fun at your own religious choice.
Clear bias for members of a cult, that does not even let me be spiritual by practicing the principle.
I didn’t know that Danville was owned by Mormons.
Do they own the city of Danville?
Anyways we all know that the mormon students at school get free grades, they all go to SRVHS to be “together” the school district endorses this, and re-boundaried just for this favoritism. They won’t be able to re-boundary for Heaven.
This also gives Harmer more political power he thinks he has, the political wanna be, won’t stop whining and the Danville Weekly. He can’t stand up like a man.
Bill Hendrickson
I ran across JFK’s campaign speech on religion, delivered to a gathering of Protestant clergy in Houston in 1960. I consider watching it to have been ten minutes exceptionally well-spent, as it’s clear, powerfully reasoned and impossible to misapprehend — that’s a nearly holy trinity in my book.
The youtube video of it is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNlS8Zg1WA (Young-uns please note — it’s in black-and-white, as the whole world was up until the mid-1960s.)
Mr. Hendrickson-
As a member of another faith, but with many friends who are LDS, I must say that your comments reflect a sad misunderstanding of reality. There are no “free grades” at SRVHS. This ignorant comment also casts a disparaging light on the teachers of this good school who are (for the most part) people of integrity. I hope you can figure out the source of your anger and work through it. In the meantime, try to keep your mouth closed.
PhDmom