Why Basketball?

[Iggy]

Originally Posted by pam

I pretty much just notice Stake Centers having stages anymore. Iggy your story of the drive in for the kids was a great idea. Should I ever be asked to come up with an idea for an activity for kids...I'm stealing that one.

It was so much fun to do. It took two Saturdays to get the Cars all painted and the stanchions and speakers made and painted. Stanchions were small oatmeal boxes taped together, the speakers were cracker jack boxes and they were painted black. We used colored yarn for the wires.

Use your imagination to make the cars. Paper plates for steering wheels, and tires, small paper dessert plates for the head lights, tail lights. We went to the grocery stores and asked them when would be a good time to pick up their large empty cardboard boxes. Like the kind tpaper and paper towels come in, etc. Then we had some of the parents go and collect them.

We had the kids do the poster painting out in the parking lot. Way easier to clean up afterwords. Also had the primary kids wear swim suits- shorts and old, old shirts really, way easier to clean them up too!

[puf_the_majic_dragon]

Originally Posted by Jbs2763

basketball/vollyball are pretty much the only sports that can be played year round indoors with limited space, and i have seen softball diamonds at stake centers in UT, (and at the adjacent YMCA for the indy south stake) but basketball is relativly safe, pretty much everyone can play......


and they dont rival HS gyms in Indiana....one of the school in my area has an 18,000 seat arena for basketball, and it was used in the movie blue chips.... my high school was much smaller, (only 115 in my graduating class) our gym would only seat about 8,000

I've never seen an LDS church with stadium seating, but the court itself is often as good as any high school or even college basketball court. The stake center in Pueblo, CO has a full sized hardwood court that's at least as good as the court on my college campus in Colorado Springs - minus the bleachers.

Pam: a lot of stake centers are just old chapels that have been designated as stake centers. I think very rarely does the church invest in building a new chapel specifically as a stake center when a new stake is formed. I think when they organize a stake they choose which existing building will be the stake center based on features such as a stage or the size of the gym (for stake conferences).

[Iggy]

Originally Posted by puf_the_majic_dragon

Pam: a lot of stake centers are just old chapels that have been designated as stake centers. I think very rarely does the church invest in building a new chapel specifically as a stake center when a new stake is formed. I think when they organize a stake they choose which existing building will be the stake center based on features such as a stage or the size of the gym (for stake conferences).

Here in Arizona they sure do-

[Jbs2763]

Originally Posted by puf_the_majic_dragon

I've never seen an LDS church with stadium seating, but the court itself is often as good as any high school or even college basketball court. The stake center in Pueblo, CO has a full sized hardwood court that's at least as good as the court on my college campus in Colorado Springs - minus the bleachers.

Pam: a lot of stake centers are just old chapels that have been designated as stake centers. I think very rarely does the church invest in building a new chapel specifically as a stake center when a new stake is formed. I think when they organize a stake they choose which existing building will be the stake center based on features such as a stage or the size of the gym (for stake conferences).

they recently split our stake but we use one of the other stake centers for stake conf. the reason being i found out is lack of parking at the "new" stake center

[puf_the_majic_dragon]

Originally Posted by Jbs2763

they recently split our stake but we use one of the other stake centers for stake conf. the reason being i found out is lack of parking at the "new" stake center

I don't think I've ever seen a stake center that DIDN'T have a lack of parking! My stake center has such a parking and space issue that they split stake conference into two sessions so only half the stake is there at any given time - and still more than half of those in attendance have to park at the high school or shopping center a quarter mile away.

And it still has a basketball court....

[Over43]

I have an acquintance who, one evening, suggested that the "men" in the Ward play volleyball instead of basketball. By the time they were done reviling him, even his gender came under suspicion. I felt bad for him because I have always prefered volleyball to basketball.

O43

[Jbs2763]

Originally Posted by Over43

I have an acquintance who, one evening, suggested that the "men" in the Ward play volleyball instead of basketball. By the time they were done reviling him, even his gender came under suspicion. I felt bad for him because I have always prefered volleyball to basketball.

O43

in the YSA world...at least in Indy....its all volleyball all the time

[john doe]

Originally Posted by Jbs2763

in the YSA world...at least in Indy....its all volleyball all the time

Understandable. Volleyball can be played co-ed........

[pam]

Originally Posted by puf_the_majic_dragon

I've never seen an LDS church with stadium seating, but the court itself is often as good as any high school or even college basketball court. The stake center in Pueblo, CO has a full sized hardwood court that's at least as good as the court on my college campus in Colorado Springs - minus the bleachers.

Pam: a lot of stake centers are just old chapels that have been designated as stake centers. I think very rarely does the church invest in building a new chapel specifically as a stake center when a new stake is formed. I think when they organize a stake they choose which existing building will be the stake center based on features such as a stage or the size of the gym (for stake conferences).

Have to disagree. Here in Utah, there are chapels built specifically for stake centers. They are larger, have stages, etc. Maybe not immediately but they are built. Maybe in other areas that is different. When I lived in San Diego....chapels were also built specifically to be stake centers.

[xXTekXx]

In Central America the majority of chapels have outdoor mini-soccer courts, with basketball goals attached to the tops of the soccer goals of course. They also have the equipment to be used for volley-ball.