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Abilene Texas Stake Conference Schedule
Abilene Texas Stake Conference August 2025 Meeting Schedule.
Saturday Evening Adult Session- August 23, 2025 6:00 - 7:30PM
Sunday Morning General Session- August 24, 2025 10:00am - 12:00 Noon
These meeting will be broadcast live from the San Angelo SW meeting house;
4425 Southwest Blvd., San Angelo, TX 76904
to the Abilene and Brownwood meeting house locations.
Abilene: 3325 North 12th Street, Abilene, TX 79603
Brownwood: 4503 4th Street Brownwood, Texas 76801
As part of our upcoming Abilene Texas Stake Conference, there will be 2 Priesthood Leadership Sessions, one in Abilene and one in San Angelo. Both sessions will cover the same topics. Both sessions will be in-person only. Neither session will be broadcast.
Those invited are the following:
High Council Members
Bishopric (including Secretaries & clerks)
Elders Quorum Presidencies (including Secretaries)
Ward Mission Leaders
Abilene Priesthood Session will be Saturday, August 23rd- 11:30am until 1:00pm in the Stake Center chapel. 3325 North 12th Street, Abilene, TX 79603
San Angelo Priesthood Session will be Saturday, August 23rd- 3:00pm until 4:30pm in the Southwest building chapel. 4425 Southwest Blvd., San Angelo, TX 76904
Thank you!
Family History Message
“ My name is Gerrit Walter Gong. Gerrit is a Dutch name, Walter (my father’s name) is an American name, and Gong of course is a Chinese name.
Experts estimate some 70–110 billion people have lived on the earth. Perhaps only one has been named Gerrit Walter Gong.
We each have a story. I love “the rain on my face [and] the wind as it rushes by.” I wobble-waddle with penguins in Antarctica. I give orphans in Guatemala, street kids in Cambodia, Maasai women in the African Mara their first very own photo of themselves.
I wait at the hospital as each of our children is born—once the doctor has me help.
I trust God. I believe “[we] are, that [we] might have joy,” that there are times and seasons to everything under heaven.
Do you know your story? What your name means? World population grew from 1.1 billion people in 1820 to nearly 7.8 billion in 2020. The year 1820 seems to be an inflection point in history. Many born after 1820 have living memory and records to identify several family generations. Can you think of a special, sweet memory with a grandparent or other family member?
Whatever the total number of individuals who have lived on the earth, it is finite, countable, one person at a time. You and I, we each matter.
And please consider this: whether or not we know them, we are each born of a mother and father. And each mother and father is born of a mother and father. By birth or adoptive lineage, we are ultimately all connected in the family of God and in the human family. “
We Each Have a Story
By Elder Gerrit W. Gong
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
April 2022 general conference