Posted by:
forbiddencokedrinker
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Date: July 01, 2013 10:54AM
I've actually seen this about a decade ago, but it didn't click with me then. The Stake Center for the Cumberland East Tennessee Stake does not have a home ward assigned to it. To be fair, I haven't been there for a few years, so they may have added one, but it did not have one all the years I lived in Tennessee. What's more, it was built specifically to service the stake, without any classrooms.
It has a large cultural hall, with a full sized basketball court, built directly in front of a podium that can be used for Stake Conferences, a kitchen, and a High Council meeting room, then some bathrooms. I have no idea who scrubs any of this stuff.
The entire stake serves a bunch of wards, that are really just branches with their numbers fudged, and a few more branches who were far too small for number fudging. It's Stake Center does however sit in a very prominent location, on a hill overlooking the highway, where it looks like a prosperous church six days out of the week, and a tempting target for copper thieves the rest. Sort of makes the members feel like the church is growing, and the work is going forth.