Church in Zion

Church of
Jesus Christ
in Zion

Arise, shine; for thy light is come

Zion is come.

In 1831 the Lord appointed a place for the city of Zion, and the appointment was never revised. A people were told to wait a little season, until there were Saints prepared to live the celestial law upon that land. This is a witness that the little season is ending. The land is the same land. The law is the same law. The gathering has begun.

Sunrise over dense woodland in Jackson County, Missouri, with a river winding through the trees and open farmland on the horizon.
There is none other place appointed The land appointed in 1831, the little season, and the gathering that has begun.
A daguerreotype portrait of Joseph Smith in a gilded frame, hung on a dark wooden wall.

The prophet

Joseph Smith

We accept the teachings of Joseph Smith as divine revelation. It is from his teachings that the Patriarchal Priesthood comes, and his teaching on the Church in Zion and the Church in all the World. A sacred daguerreotype photograph of the Prophet is published in our Zion Edition of the Book of Mormon.

What we believe The Zion Edition

What we believe

Zion is a place

In 1831 the Lord named it — Jackson County, Missouri, with her stakes in the regions round about. The appointment was not general but exact: a county, a town, a lot. When the Saints were driven out two years later, the Lord did not move it, and it has never been moved since. The Community lives upon that land today.

There is none other place appointed than that which I have appointed; neither shall there be any other place appointed than that which I have appointed, for the work of the gathering of my saints.

D&C 101:20
A field of ripe golden wheat in Jackson County, Missouri, stretching to the horizon under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Jackson County, Missouri — the place of the Gathering

Let Zion rejoice, for this is Zion — the pure in heart.

D&C 97:21
A father reading an open book with his young son and daughter beside him in an armchair.
Every Patriarch is the prophet to his own house
Three small children sitting under a blanket on a couch, listening to a man holding a Book of Mormon.

Zion is a people

Zion gathers ordinary families — those who desire to live pure and holy lives, who are done with worldly ambition and want to spend the remainder of their days serving God. The Church is composed of the Patriarchs and their families together; each family is presided over by its own father, and no man stands between a family and God.

In Zion there are no strangers, no classes, and no poor, because there is no one whose welfare is not the concern of everyone else. All are brothers and sisters in the family of God on the earth.

Zion exists for one purpose

To prepare a people and a place for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ and His millennial reign. The law Zion is built by is consecration — the surplus freely given, and with it time and talent — and the pattern is the city of Enoch. So the work of Zion is done with our own hands, and the youngest learn it early.

Two boys in red Templar uniform shirts with embroidered patches, arms around each other's shoulders.
Raised in the family of God
A man and a teenage boy painting white cabinetry together with brushes.
Time and talent, freely given

And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

Moses 7:18

Our beliefs in full

The document

The Gathering to Zion

An introduction to the Zion Community for those who have been waiting. It tells the whole story plainly — the prophecies, the principles, the history, and the practical order of the Community as it operates today — so that you can lay it before the Lord and judge for yourself.

It is not written to persuade. Read it carefully. Weigh it. Ask God.

Receive the document

The Zion Community

The Gathering
to Zion

An Introduction to the Zion Community for Those Who Have Been Waiting

Church of Jesus Christ in Zion

The invitation

No document can call you to Zion, and neither can any man.

The call comes individually, by the Holy Ghost, to the pure in heart. If something in you has recognized what you have been waiting for, take it to the Lord. And if the answer comes — come and see.

Come and see

Write to us — a member of the Community will answer