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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Brick work completed on most of Joplin Stake Center

Construction on the Joplin Missouri Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is moving along nicely.
Brick work is done on the front portion of the church building and nearly done on the two sides and back.
Sheetrock work is nearly done in the chapel area and most other areas of the church, including the Relief Society Room.

Sheetrock is in place in the Chapel area, looking west
toward the podium area, in the Joplin Stake Center.
Photo by David Farnsworth.

A look inside the Relief Society Room in the Joplin
Missouri Stake Center. Photo by David Farnsworth


Two tornado-ravaged trees are struggling to survive just south
of the new Joplin Missouri Stake Center of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Photo by David Farnsworth

Brick work is done on the front (west) part of the new
Joplin Missouri Stake Center of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Photo by Nancy Hunt

Brick work continues on the north side of the new
Joplin Missouri Stake Center of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Photo by Nancy Hunt

Brick work is done on the front (west) part of the new
Joplin Missouri Stake Center of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What's missing
on the front of the stake center? The steeple, which
is expected to be hoist into place on May 22nd. 
Photo by Nancy Hunt

Bricks are stacked and ready to be laid for the  retention
wall on the front (west) side of the new LDS stake center.
Photo by Nancy Hunt  

The new stake center as seen from the southwest street corner.
Photo by Nancy Hunt

The stake bowery is already in place northeast of the stake
building. View from the northeast. Photo by Nancy Hunt

The stake center, background, and the church bowery, front left,
looking from the north.
Photo by Nancy Hunt

Northeast view of the church bowery with the new stake
center in the background. Photo by Nancy Hunt
Plans are still in the works to raise the steeple in place on May 22nd, the 1st anniversary of the F5 tornado that reaped through Joplin, destroying the original stake center.