How many units meet in your ward building?

[Paperback Writer]

How many units meet in your ward building?

Mine has 4 - 3 wards and a singles branch. It's difficult to schedule rooms for those meetings that I so enjoy attending. It's impossible to schedule the cultural hall/gym for scouting activities. When I bring this up to leadership, I'm told that most ward buildings have at least two and usually more wards assigned to a building. But I doubt this as it was not the case in my mission in the US and is not the case with my LDS relatives. I wonder if this is the norm or is the church just being cheap in my community.

[marsupial]

One. 10 a.m. Sacrament meeting every year.

[Indy Coug]

One. 10 a.m. Sacrament meeting every year.

10 to 1 is the best time slot of all.

[RC Vikings]

A two hour block makes so much sense so we can fit even more wards into the same building.

[Moliere]

How many units meet in your ward building?

Mine has 4 - 3 wards and a singles branch. It's difficult to schedule rooms for those meetings that I so enjoy attending. It's impossible to schedule the cultural hall/gym for scouting activities. When I bring this up to leadership, I'm told that most ward buildings have at least two and usually more wards assigned to a building. But I doubt this as it was not the case in my mission in the US and is not the case with my LDS relatives. I wonder if this is the norm or is the church just being cheap in my community.

Three wards and we all share the same night for mutual. We get the whole gym once a month, which is of course the combined activity night. We get half the gym 10 times a year, which is split with the YW so in actuality we get half the gym 5 times a year for YM related activities (i.e. basketball, dodgeball, etc).

[pellegrino]

One. 10 a.m. Sacrament meeting every year.

I wish our SP would allow a 10:00 sacrament meeting. We're locked into a perennial 9:00 start time.

[pellegrino]

How many units meet in your ward building?

Mine has 4 - 3 wards and a singles branch. It's difficult to schedule rooms for those meetings that I so enjoy attending. It's impossible to schedule the cultural hall/gym for scouting activities. When I bring this up to leadership, I'm told that most ward buildings have at least two and usually more wards assigned to a building. But I doubt this as it was not the case in my mission in the US and is not the case with my LDS relatives. I wonder if this is the norm or is the church just being cheap in my community.

if you're in the west this is likely. If you're in Utah it's a fact of life. Elsewhere, 1 building usually = 1 unit

[Paperback Writer]

Thanks for the input. I had an idea and went out to ward locator on the LDS official site. In my area, three wards is fairly standard with a few buildings with two wards. Outlier areas away from population centers have one ward/branch. FYI, was looking in the Dallas area.

Good to hear that Utah Mormons are scheduled just as tight as Texans in population centers. Now I guess I'll have to complain about something new...like how it's now the AP job to clean the church. How the YW and Relief Soceity escape this I'll never know. Guess the assumption is that they have to clean their own house on a Saturday but that's not the case in mine.

[falafel]

How many units meet in your ward building?

Mine has 4 - 3 wards and a singles branch. It's difficult to schedule rooms for those meetings that I so enjoy attending. It's impossible to schedule the cultural hall/gym for scouting activities. When I bring this up to leadership, I'm told that most ward buildings have at least two and usually more wards assigned to a building. But I doubt this as it was not the case in my mission in the US and is not the case with my LDS relatives. I wonder if this is the norm or is the church just being cheap in my community.

We have two units in our ward in Las Vegas, and we're on the low side. Our stake center has 4 wards. I don't know of any Las Vegas chapels that have just one unit.

On my mission in Chicago, all of the buildings I served in had at least 2 units. I don't remember there being many with more than two, though. If there was a building with one unit, it was way out in Woodstock or something out in the sticks like that.

[NorthwestUteFan]

if you're in the west this is likely. If you're in Utah it's a fact of life. Elsewhere, 1 building usually = 1 unit

My stake in Mass was a rare exception. We had about 9 wards and 5 buildings. My building had 2 wards, which had recently split from 1 single ward. Another building had 2 wards, an 'older' single adult branch, and a Spanish branch meeting in it. The vast majority of wards in the surrounding stakes had their own buildings.

A friend of mine works in North Dakota. His STAKE has only 140 members, and 3(?) buildings. His stake boundaries cover the entire state of North Dakota...

One time when I was in about 2nd grade, right after the Block schedule started, our building was shared by 5 wards. One started at 8 am, and the last one went 4-7pm. The 4-7 schedule was HORRIFIC for a little kid!

[falafel]

A friend of mine works in North Dakota. His STAKE has only 140 members, and 3(?) buildings. His stake boundaries cover the entire state of North Dakota...

Wait, are you saying the entire state of North Dakota only has 140 members? That doesn't seem right.

Edit: The church seems to be calling your friend a liar:

Membership 6,366
Temples 1
Congregations 16
Family History Centers 8

http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/country/usa-north-dakota

[NorthwestUteFan]

I must have heard him wrong. I was wrestling kids in F&T meeting.

I called him for clarification. 140 ACTIVE members in his stake (3 wards). People drive over 100 miles to get to stake conference. 16 buildings total in the state. Don't know how many of the claimed 6,366 are active.

[Viking]

I would say there are precisely x units in any building on any given sunday, where x = the sum of all male attendees during the day.

[pellegrino]

I would say there are precisely x units in any building on any given sunday, where x = the sum of all male attendees during the day.

that even made my wife laugh.

[Lost Student]

I would say there are precisely x units in any building on any given sunday, where x = the sum of all male attendees during the day.

LOL classic mistake--you forgot to account for the castrati and those hanging their wangs out the window.