J. Anette Dennis, first counselor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Reduction Society, middle left, Sister Kristin M. Yee, 2nd counselor of the Reduction Society normal presidency, and Sister Tracy Y. Browning, 2nd counselor within the Number one normal presidency, take their seats all over the church’s 192nd Annual Common Convention on the Convention Middle in Salt Lake Town on Saturday. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — On the 192nd Annual Common Convention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday afternoon, church leaders named a brand new Reduction Society normal presidency and a brand new Number one normal presidency.
New Reduction Society normal presidency
Sister Camille N. Johnson, who has served as president of the Number one normal presidency, was once referred to as to interchange Sister Jean B. Bingham as normal president of the Reduction Society, starting in August of this 12 months.
Sister Johnson, who was once born in Pocatello, Idaho, labored as a attorney and has levels from the College of Utah, in step with a information free up from the church. She served as a spouse to her husband when he was once a challenge president within the Peru Arequipa Undertaking, served in lots of assignments in her native congregation, and is the mum to a few sons.
Sister J. Anette Dennis was once referred to as to function Sister Johnson’s first counselor. She was once born in Provo and studied fundamental schooling at Brigham Younger College, the church’s information free up says. A few of her earlier assignments had been at the Number one normal advisory council, at the Davis County Public Affairs Council, as a missionary along with her husband within the Ecuador Guayaquil West Undertaking, and as matron of the Guayaquil Ecuador Temple.
Sister Dennis and her husband, Jorge Dennis, have 4 youngsters and 9 grandchildren.
The brand new 2nd counselor within the Reduction Society normal presidency shall be Sister Kristin M. Yee. She recently works as supervisor of the church’s animation workforce, and labored for Disney Interactive Studios for 13 years previous to that, in step with the discharge.
Sister Yee was once born in Sacramento, California, and has a grasp’s stage from Brigham Younger College, the discharge says. She has served at the Number one normal advisory council for the church since 2021. She has additionally served as Reduction Society president in her ward and stake, as a ward Younger Ladies president, and as a Sunday College trainer.
The former presidency, which incorporates Sister Jean B. Bingham, Sister Sharon Eubank and Sister Reyna I. Aburto, has served for 5 years since being sustained in April 2017.
The calls of 12 new leaders had been introduced at #GeneralConference. Those calls contain six Common Authority Nineteen Seventies and new Reduction Society and Number one Common Presidencies.https://t.co/JizGk8Aota
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New Number one normal presidency
Sister Susan H. Porter, who was once sustained as a primary counselor within the Number one normal presidency 365 days in the past, was once sustained on Saturday to function the president of the similar presidency, starting in August.
Previous to her carrier within the Number one presidency, Sister Porter served at the Reduction Society normal advisory council for 4 years, along with assignments in her personal congregation, the church’s press free up says. Her past due husband, Elder Bruce D. Porter of the church’s Quorum of the Seventy, died in 2016. They’ve 4 youngsters and fulfilled church assignments in Russia and the Center East in combination.
Sister Porter, who was once born in Oklahoma and raised in New York, attended Brigham Younger College and gained a bachelor’s stage in chemistry, the discharge says. She has labored as a lab assistant and math trainer.
Sister Amy Wright, who was once sustained as the brand new first counselor within the Number one normal presidency, has been serving with Sister Porter as the second one counselor for the previous 12 months. Sister Wright additionally served at the Younger Ladies normal advisory council for 3 years and in numerous assignments in her personal congregation, in step with the church press free up.
Sister Wright is from Salt Lake Town and went to the College of Utah. She labored at Marquette College, the place she helped with an city journalism camp for inner-city formative years and took part in group carrier alternatives. She and her husband, James, have 3 sons.
The brand new 2nd counselor within the Number one normal presidency is Sister Tracy Y. Browning, who has served at the Reduction Society normal advisory council for the final 4 years, the clicking free up says. She has labored in employment for the church and is recently running within the church’s Publishing Products and services Division. Sooner than her profession with the church, Sister Browning labored for 15 years within the monetary services and products trade.
Sister Browning was once born in New York, however she spent a few of her formative years in Jamaica, an island within the West Indies the place her folks had been born. Sister Browning would be the first Black woman to serve in one of the general presidencies of the church. She and her husband have two youngsters.
New normal authority seventies
In the similar consultation of normal convention, six new normal authority seventies had been referred to as, together with:
- Elder Mark D. Eddy
- Elder James W. McConkie III
- Elder Isaac Ok. Morrison
- Elder Ryan Ok. Olsen
- Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt
- Elder Denelson Silva
All through the management consultation of the convention, which occurs previous within the week, an extra 45 space seventies had been introduced.
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