Our Ward is responsible for cleaning the building January thru April. The schedule is on the Announcements Page. Please check it for your assignment.

Chippenham YSA Ward

Hello,

Here's what's going on in the YSA ward for the holidays!! So many fun activities!!

Events This Week

Unless otherwise noted, all activities are at the Duryea building (10660 Duryea Dr)

Monday, December 15: Christmas cheer for FHE at 7:00 PM! Come for gingerbread house building, hot chocolate, and maybe an indoor snowball fight.

Tuesday, December 16: Institute at the Grace St. Building (300 W Grace St). Dinner at 6:30 and class at 7:00. Come learn more about Jesus Christ and His plan for you. Bring your thoughts, questions, and friends. Last class of 2025. Will begin again on January 6.

Wednesday, December 17: Christmas Choir Rehearsal at 8:00 PM. Come join the choir that will sing a musical number on Sunday. See flier for details.

Thursday, December 18: Tacky Lights Drive with some people from the ward! Meet at the Grace St building at 7:00 PM. We'll leave the building around 7:15. The drive will take about one hour. The route plan will be sent out on Facebook the day of, so keep an eye out for it.

Saturday, December 20: Christmas Choir Rehearsal at 5:00 PM.

Saturday, December 20: Our Ward Christmas party! We will be going to the 7:00 PM show of the Miracle of Christmas Live at the Zoo. Following that, (around 8:00 PM) we will return to the ward building for a nacho bar, sweets, drinks, karaoke and other fun activities. Feel free to come to any or all this night, and as always, to invite friends! See attached flier for details.

Sunday, December 21: We will be having a special one-hour Christmas program for Sacrament meeting at 2:00 PM.

Events Coming Later

Monday, December 22: No FHE... BUT... We need 7-10 volunteers to help with parking at the Miracle of Christmas - Live at the Zoo. 6:00-9:00 PM. Let Bishop know if you can help.

Saturday, December 27: Truman Murray (team captain), Christina Stiles, Jimmy Zimsky, Kevin Bermudez, & Nick Long are responsible for cleaning the building. Check the ward FB page to find out when you are assigned to clean the building.

Tithing Declaration continues. Please contact Tanner Lipscomb or the Bishop directly to schedule an appointment with the Bishop.

Have a nice week! Merry Christmas!!

Taylor

Printable PDFs of Invitations that Can Be Used to Invite People to Our Christmas Service Sacrament Meeting - December 21, 2025 - 10:00am

You can click on either of the Invitations below to view, download or print a PDF version of that Invitation. If you prefer, you can click on the links below.

You can also email or text the downloaded PDF as well.

Click Here for the white or click Here for the Red Invitation.

Merry Christmas!🎄

Pump Road Building - 2500 Pump Rd, Henrico, VA 23233

Gayton Ward 2026 Building Cleaning Schedule

Dear Gayton Ward,

Our ward will be responsible for cleaning our church building for eight months during 2026 as we are on a four-month rotation with the Innsbrook Ward. We will clean January through April and September through December. The first schedule is noted below. The second session schedule will be provided later in 2026.

We are working to minimize the number of households who will be asked to clean twice, although some will be needed. To help with this, we have scheduled just four households to clean each week. Given this, it is very important that you help on your assigned date. If you have a conflict with the schedule, please exchange dates with another household.

We will continue with our practice of cleaning on Friday evenings beginning at 6:00 p.m., although some work could be done on Thursday evenings or Saturday mornings if needed. Evan Anderson, Jerry Powers, and Eric Thorpe will be at the building as noted on the schedule to supervise the cleaning.

The Pump Road building is where we meet together to worship our Savior each week. We can all do our part to help keep the building clean and presentable.

Thanks,

Brother Duncan

Registration Is Open - March 5-7, 2026

Join the world's largest family history conference free online and in person. March 5–7, 2026. Our full learning library is open everyday.

Mobile temple recommends are now available!

If you would like to convert your active temple recommend to a mobile temple recommend, please submit your name through this form and the Bishopric will work through the process of converting your current recommend to a mobile recommend.

Attached is a flyer from the Church with additional information.

Free church magazines!

Subscriptions to church magazines such as the Friend and Liahona are now FREE! Please follow this link to learn more about how to subscribe.

The Bishopric would like everyone to review and update their photo and other information in the ward directory

The Bishopric would like everyone to review and update their photo and other information in the ward directory. This can be done through the website or the member tools app. If you would like an updated photo, Brother John Davidson will be bringing his camera equipment and taking individual and family group photographs in the Young Women's room on Sunday Mar 10 between 11:10 am and 12:20 pm. You will be provided a copy of the photos for individual use and we encourage you to upload these to the ward directory if you do not currently have a photo. [Ward technology specialists can help you upload your photo if you need assistance.] This is a great time to ensure that phone numbers and email addresses are also up to date. Brother Davidson will be collecting any information that needs to be changed and providing that to the ward clerk. Just stop by the Young Women’s room and let him know what change(s) need to be made.

Our FamilySearch Center is now Open in its New Location, Staples Mill Road Stake Center

Our FamilySearch Center is now in our Stake Center. Operating hours are: Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00am to 3:00pm. If the doors are locked, someone will put a note on the door with their phone number to call so they can come and let you in. The entrance Is on the Staples Mill Road side of the building.

Staples Mill Stake Center - 10913 Staples Mill Rd, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Keep Informed, Use Remind

Brothers and Sisters,

We would like to utilize a text message (SMS) alert tool in order to more effectively inform our ward family about general announcements and emergency alerts.

We encourage all members (age 13 and up) to opt-in to the service so you can receive text messages when we send out an announcement. To opt-in, please text "@wardalerts" to 81010.

The service is called Remind. Remind was created for school districts but is free and open for non-profit use. After you send your initial text to opt-in, it will ask for your name and whether you're a student, parent, or teacher. Please select student. It will suggest that you download the app but this is not necessary. We will continue to send announcements via email as well.

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Best,

Gayton Ward Bishopric

How to save the link (URL) to a website as an app Icon on you home screen on an Apple iPhone

Go to www.gaytonward.com using the Safari web browser.
Tap the share button at the bottom of the screen (It looks like a box with an arrow pointing up)
Scroll down and tap on Add to Home Screen
Type a name for the Icon and press the Done button.
Put the Icon on the home screen of your choice
Any time you want to go to the website, just touch the Icon.

Notes:

The screenshots below show how to save any website's link to the home screen.
If anyone that uses an Android phone can write up a similar set of Instructions and send them to me, Gaytonwebsite@gmail.com, I would really appreciate It. I will add them to this page. Thanks, Bill

October 2025 World Report of the Church of Jesus Christ

2024 Statistical Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

For the information of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the First Presidency has issued the linked statistical report concerning the growth and status of the Church as of December 31, 2024. Statical Report

Issue with Yahoo Email Accounts Receiving Emails from the Church's "Send A Message" Service

It has come to my attention that members that use Yahoo email accounts do not receive emails that I, or any of the church organizations, send out using the "Send A Message" service. For example, this is the service that I use to send out the weekly newsletter. The Church's help desk people report that it is a know problem but is not fixable by the Church. Their recommendation Is that you contact Yahoo's help desk and ask that they do not treat email from "noreply-lcr@churchofjesuschrist.org" as spam.

Another suggestion Is that you create a free Gmail account just for church use. Then update your membership record to use the new Gmail account. (There are Instructions on how to update your membership record on the ward website here: https://sites.google.com/view/gayton/records.) Once you create your new Gmail account, login to that account via a web browser and create an email rule that forwards all email from noreply-lcr@churchofjesuschrist.org to your Yahoo email account. By doing this, you will not have to check your church Gmail account separately.

An additional suggestion is to use an email client on your devices and send all email accounts Into one in-box. That is what I do on my Apple devices. I use the Apple Mail app.

I hope this helps. The only tool the Church provides for ward communications is the "Send A Message" email service. It gathers our email addresses from our membership records, so please remember to also update your membership record with you new Gmail account.

William (Bill) C. Haynes

Haynes.william.c@gmail.com

804-347-9656

Ward Communications Specialist

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