New LDS Meetinghouse almost finished

Travis Forbush, job superintendent at the new LDS Meetinghouse in Sisters, placing the new steeple. Photo provided

There has been a great deal of construction activity at the end of Trinity Way in Sisters over the past 4-1/2 months.

Crews from Jacobsen Construction out of Salt Lake City, Utah, are completing a new addition to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Sisters Branch Meetinghouse.

The new addition, scheduled to be complete in March, will provide more than 3,000 square feet of growing space for the congregation, doubling the current occupancy.

In addition to a growing congregation, the Sisters Branch has had a significant increase in numbers of worshippers seasonally as well as on holidays.

While the original chapel and classrooms are often over-crowded on Christmas and other holidays, the new addition will take care of the fluctuation of worshippers for the next 10 years.

There are now eight new classrooms, a new Bishop's office and a complete sound and satellite system in the propane-heated building. An extensive landscaping project is scheduled for early spring.

Drivers trucked the new 2,000-pound aluminum steeple to the Sisters LDS Church site three weeks ago from Tremonton, Utah, and the Jacobsen Construction company crew set it in place.

When finished, the new meeting house will have a new organ, piano, choir seats, and provide ample space for worship and social activities badly needed by the members.