KINGSPORT — With the growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Tennessee, the Kingsport Tennessee Stake — created in 1980 — was split during a recent conference in Kingsport to create the Johnson City Tennessee Stake.
The Rogersville congregation remained assigned to the Kingsport Tennessee Stake. The directive to form a new stake came from the Church’s headquarters in Salt Lake City.
Similar to a diocese in the Catholic faith, a stake of the Church of Jesus Christ is a group of congregations, called wards and branches, in a geographic area…