"Meet the Mormons" The Movie

"Meet the Mormons" is a full length feature documentary, produced by the Church, telling the stories of six extraordinary members from around the world.  The movie will be in theaters throughout the United States the weekend of October 10th.

"Meet the Mormons" is not intended as a proselyting resource, but rather to entertain, inform, and enlighten.  This movie promises to be inspiring to all who attend, and will evoke positive feelings towards the Church.  Members are asked to invite their family, friends and neighbors to enjoy this uplifting movie.  All net proceeds from this movie are being donated to the American Red Cross.



At this time, the movie will be only be shown in the Orlando area at the AMC Theater at West Oaks Mall from October 10-16.  Efforts are ongoing to have the movie available at other theaters in Central Florida.  Church members are strongly encouraged to see this movie on opening weekend. Please see below for theater information and scheduled show times for the opening weekend.

For more details, and to see the movie trailer, please visit meetthemormons.com

MOVIE LOCATION, SHOWTIMES AND PRICE INFORMATION

Since there will be LIMITED locations and show times available in Central Florida to view the movie, it is highly recommended that you purchase your ticket(s) on-line in advance.

Sales and attendance figures from Friday, Oct. 10 – Sunday Oct. 12 will be used to determine the future availability of this film.  We are strongly encouraging attendance during this opening weekend of the film, to maximize its success.

Meet the Mormons at AMC West Oaks 14 Theater (9415 W. Colonial Dr., Ocoee, FL 34761)

Show times for Friday, Oct 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11
11:00 a.m. | 1:15 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 5:45 p.m. | 8:00 p.m. | 10:15 p.m.

Show times for Sunday, Oct. 12
11:00 a.m. | 1:15 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 5:35 p.m. | 7:45 p.m.

Show times for Monday, Oct. 13 – Thursday, Oct. 16 are still to be determined.


Ticket Prices at AMC West Oaks 14 Theater

The theater is offering a Group Rate when 25 tickets are purchased by a single buyer for the SAME show time, at the theater box office, at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie.  Contact the box office at (407) 290-1265 for more details.

Group Rate Prices:

• Before 12 pm showings, tickets are $5.50 for the Group Rate.
• From 12 pm to 4pm showings, tickets are $6.50 for the Group Rate.
• After 4 pm showings, tickets are $8.50 for the Group Rate.

Regular Ticket Prices:

• All day Thursday - Student Day - All tickets $7.00 for any age with student I.D.
• All day Tuesday - Senior Day - All tickets $6.00 for anyone 60 or over.
• Any other day a matinee before noon is $6.00
• From Noon to 3:55 is $8.00 for adult and senior, $7.00 for child
• After 4 p.m. is $9.75 for adult, $8.75 for seniors, and $7.00 for child
• Children age under age two are no charge.  
• Tickets can be purchased in advance online at AMC Theatres, but will required a $1 per ticket convenience fee, without an AMC Stubs membership.

Food Drive and General Women's Meeting Info

The General Women's Meeting broadcast will be held on Saturday, September 27, 8:00p.m. at the Stake Center.  The Relief Society, Young Women and Primary girls age 8 and up are invited to attend this broadcast.  A service project will be held at 7:00p.m. before the broadcast.

There are over 3,000 homeless children in Osceola County and most of them live in hotels along U.S. Highway 192.  Many of these children are hungry on the weekend while they are out of school. The weekend meal program that provides non-perishable food for those children over the weekend when they are away from school.  We will be collecting non-perishable foods for the Cypress Park, Chestnut, Highlands and Lakeview elementary schools.  

On August 31st each ward building will have a container to start collecting non-perishable food to be donated to the schools.  The night of the broadcast the food will be sorted for delivery to the 4 schools.   

Here is a list of the non-perishable food that we will be collecting:  

• tuna 
• grits
• cereal 
• instant oatmeal
• mac and cheese
• applesauce
• peanut butter
• jelly
• crackers
• juice
• breakfast bars

Thank you the member of our stake for all you do!  If you have any questions please contact your Relief Society president or Sister Carol Mills.

Week of the Family Essay Contests

BYU Cougars vs. UCF Knights - October 9

BYU COUGARS VS. UCF KNIGHTS
Thursday, October 9, 2014    
Event Time: TBA
UCF Bright House Network Stadium, Orlando FL

Support the Cougars as they take on the UCF Knights!

The Cougar Town Tailgate Party will begin approximately 3 hours before the game, on the UCF campus, at the corner of Knights Victory Way and W. Plaza Drive.

The BYU Football Team Fireside will take place the night before the game, on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at the Hunters Creek Stake Center, located at 701 W. Wetherbee Road, Orlando.  All are welcome to attend.  Sunday dress recommended.

Visit alumni.byu.edu/orlandocougartown to get more information, and to purchase tickets to the tailgate party and the game.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Create Something Worthy - with Games

We’ve all seen people locked into games on their mobile devices. Even the littlest children can find games that will entertain them, even fascinate them for hours. Have you ever wished that there were games that could uplift, even inspire? Where are the games that can connect people to the gospel?

Somewhere there is an app developer who can create something a little better, something a little more Christ-centered, something worthy. Maybe it’s you!
The Gospel Game & App Contest, sponsored by the Church’s IT department in conjunction with this fall’s LDSTech Conference, encourages developers to “create something worthy”.
Wouldn’t you love to see a marketplace filled with engaging, uplifting, creative games and apps? Enter the contest and have fun!  Many starter ideas are on the Contest wiki page. Add more ideas. Get some development and creative people together to make your own app. See tech.lds.org for more information.
Just think about the potential: you can help boys and girls build a Nephite city, help them recognize the apostles, or learn the scriptures! The possibilities are endless – maybe even eternal.  

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Worldwide Indexing Event - July 20-21, 2014

On July 2, 2012, a total of 49,025 FamilySearch indexers and arbitrators joined together to set the all-time record for the most indexing participants in a single day. That lofty record is about to be broken—by you!

Join volunteers from around the world on July 20 and 21 for an international history-making event!  

The goal? For 50,000 indexers and arbitrators to submit at least one batch in a 24-hour period! Do more if you would like, but one batch is all that is required to be counted in the record!

For more information, please visit this FamilySearch Blog and the Facebook Page.

NOTE: For Central Florida , the event will begin on Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM EDT, and end on Monday, July 21, 2014 at 8:00 PM EDT.

Back to School Service Project - Day of Service 2014

It's that time again for our Day of Service where we have the opportunity to reach out to our community and show them we are here to serve. 

This year we will be doing projects similar to what we did last year for Cypress Park Elementary, however, we will be helping three schools instead of one.  There will be plenty of work so we need as many of our members as possible to show up to help.  Please feel free to invite your families, neighbors, and less active members to help, we welcome anyone who would like to serve. 

Each ward/branch has been assigned to a school and is to report to that school to help at our day of service. We hope to make a large impact at these schools.  Our hope is that we can develop a relationship with these schools, similar to what we have with Cypress Park Elementary, so our members can continue to serve them in different capacities.

We will be collecting specific items for a Supply Drive for each school.  The same items will be collected for all the schools.  Each building has blue collection bins for each item, please bring your items on Sunday and your ward rep will collect them then.

Orlando Florida Hunters Creek Stake
Day of Service 2014
Back to School Service Project

Date: August 2   
Time: 8am to Noon
Locations:

Hunters Creek & Pleasant Hill
Highland's Elementary School
800 W Donegan Ave, Kissimmee

Poinciana & Wetherbee YSA
Chestnut Elementary School
4300 Chestnut St, Poinciana

St. Cloud, Kissimmee & Lake Nona
Lakeview Elementary School
2900 5th St, St Cloud

The following service projects will be done at each school:

* Outdoor landscaping or beautification
* Indoor deep cleaning projects and
* Helping teachers organize, clean, prepare, and decorate their classrooms

Supply Drive (items needed for donation):

• pre-k to adult shoes, any type
• belts
• tissues
• baby wipes
• copy paper

If you have any further questions please contact your ward Public Affairs representative or Bishopric member listed below.

Hunters Creek: Kneil Baron and Jose Toro
Kissimmee: Eric Hansen and Steve Bravato
Lake Nona: Mark Hahn and Missy Wise
Pleasant Hill: Jay Egg and Chad Tucker
Poinciana: Julio Cruz, Scott Dombrowski, Kathleen Kober
St. Cloud: Daniel Munns and Jessica Arrington
Wetherbee YSA: Michael Cajas