Ward Split

Last night, between sessions of General Conference, we had a 3-ward meeting at the stake center. The boundaries were changed in the Holly Springs Ward and the Apex Ward, and the Morrisville Ward was split into the Morrisville Ward and the new Green Level Ward. Our family is still in the Morrisville Ward. (Of course, Wayne really isn't, since he is in the bishopric of the Raleigh University Ward, and attends that ward instead of ours.)

Our Apex Stake was created from half of the Raleigh Stake six years ago. At that time the Apex Stake had six units. With the creation of the Green Level Ward, our stake now has ten units.

Three and a half years ago, the Morrisville Ward was created from part of the Cary 1st Ward and part of the Apex Ward. It originally had 305 members. Just before the split on Saturday, the Morrisville Ward had 590 members (230 of those were Primary children.) Now with the rearranged boundaries and new Green Level Ward, each ward now has about 300 members again.

Our stake center has had four wards meeting in it for the past 3 1/2 years: Apex, Holly Springs, Morrisville, and Swift Creek. Each ward meets for a 3-hour block of meetings (9 am-12 noon, or 9:30 am-12:30 pm, or 1-3pm, or 1:30-4:30 pm). Alas, our new Morrisville building STILL ISN'T COMPLETE! So we have a problem. Now there are 5 wards for the stake center. And so this is the solution: The Green Level Ward is taking over our 9 am-12 noon spot, and the Morrisville Ward has been assigned to go to our meetings from 4:15-7:15 pm!!!!! Yikes!

Not to worry, because this horrible meeting schedule will probably only last about 4 Sundays. With all the problems at the new Morrisville Building, they say it will be done in early November (more than 2 years since the groundbreaking Oct. 27, 2007).

As soon as the Morrisville Building is done, the Green Level Ward and the Morrisville Ward will start meeting there. That will leave only 3 wards in the Apex Stake Center, and at that time they will rearrange ward boundaries again (I suppose in the Swift Creek, Garner, and Holly Springs wards) and create a ward in Fuquay-Varina. That will be the 11th unit in our stake. Hurray for growth!