It is as simple as typing in part of or a full address and the information about the ward for that area comes up. It looks nice and works great. Those that will find this app useful are people who travel on Sundays either once and a while or on a regular basis. This app makes finding the right ward, and a map to get to navigate there, very easy.
The only thing I would like to see the developer add to this app to make it even more convenient is an option to detect your location automatically and display the ward based on that. Other than that it is a quality app and if you have need of the service I would highly recommend finding it in the app store.
LDS Ward Finder works great, its designed great, and couldn’t be any easier to use. Not everybody will need it, but for those traveling on Sundays, it’s perfect.
This is a guest review by Curtis Ross, creator of the amazing webapp LDSPlan, which will help you get your home and visiting teaching scheduled and reported each month.
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RT @DrewConrad: Nice! The Ward Finder app that @jkhowland and I built got an in-depth review by @ldslifehacker #LDS – http://t.co/pRaLX8cO
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But does this give any idea of whether the ward schedule is changed for stake conference?
I am taking my college kids to London for spring break, want to attend the Britannia YSA ward, but mormon.org has no contact info, so no way to check about conferences. And that seems to happen a lot when we travel.
@naismith the ward schedules don't get updated on the server for Stake Conference – it's up to the ward/stake clerks to update them for them online.
In the next version of the app we hope to add YSA information including the bishop's contact information. Hopefully we'll have it up before you travel next.
Good luck.
I actually didn’t know this app existed! Thank you for sharing, I’ll definitely be giving it a try to find a new church community in my area. Has anyone else had experience using this app? Did you find it helpful?