Elder Kearon's dedicatory prayer calls Wichita temple 'house of joy'
November 4, 2026 at 7:03 AM MT · via Church News · Summarized by Mormon News from original reporting

Church News published the full text of Elder Patrick Kearon's dedicatory prayer for the Wichita Kansas Temple, in which he asked that the temple become a 'house of joy' for members in Kansas and surrounding states.
Elder Kearon of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated the temple on November 1, 2026, following its public open house. The dedicatory prayer is a formal invocation asking for divine blessings on the building and those who worship there, following a pattern dating to the dedication of the Kirtland Temple in 1836.
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