Centennial Park Az The Work of Jesus Christ

Centennial Park Az in the United States is home to around 1500 believers of a religious group called The Work of Jesus Christ. This group was formed as a breakaway sect from the FLDS Church or The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. All these religious groups had some common features, at one time or another, with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or the LDS Church which practiced Mormonism in the latter half of the nineteenth century in Western United States.

During the early 1980s, the FLDS Church faced a conflict of leadership. Many of its members showed displeasure over certain kind of changes being introduced by some powerful members of the Church. Matters reached a breaking point when the FLDS Church abandoned leadership by Council and instituted a one-man rule doctrine. As a result many of the members who wanted to continue with leadership by Church council broke away in 1986 and established their own sect at the Centennial Park Az.

Members of The Work of Jesus Christ are descendant of groups which practiced Mormonism at one time and one of the main tenets was the practice of polygamy. However the group at Centennial Park Az denounces all forms of violence and abuse. They do not permit the marriage of young girls and disavow the extreme practices of the FLDS Church. While they dress in modern and modest attire, the members still practice a form of arranged marriage and polygamy like its parent church.

The group of The Work of Jesus Christ is based in the Centennial Park Az which is located just south of the twin communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah. The group has built a meetinghouse for weekly services and a private high school. In 2003, a charter school was also built for the towns growing elementary-age population. Another three hundred members of this group live in the Salt Lake Valley and travel to the Centennial Park every month in order to assist with work of community building.

The group of Centennial Park Az was profiled in a television program titled Primetime: The Outsiders on February 13, 2007. This investigative television series, broadcast on the ABC network, features reports on people who live by their own rules and in their own world, outside the norms of conventional society. The episode on the Centennial Park group revolved around the family of Ariel Hammon, his two wives and nine children. Among the prohibitions imposed by the community elders are dating and kissing among teenagers as well as pre-marital sex.

Members of the Centennial Park Az group generally distance themselves from the neighboring community of Colorado City. The latter is reported to be more orthodox and isolationist besides practicing a far stricter form of polygamy. There outside society is shunned and visitors are asked to leave. However, even the group at Centennial Park is suspect to a certain extent since under law, polygamy is a crime. However, its members vow to carry on with their religious and social practices. Wikipedia

Centennial Park Az The Work of Jesus Christ was written on January 14, 2008 posted in Religion & Faith and tag Religion & Faith. Wiki Pages on January 14, 2008

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