Charts in Whitmer Farm Visitors Center

"Dispensations" poster covers some of the periods of prophetic leadership in the history of the world. It compares Old and New Testament dates with Book of Mormon dates and shows some of the periods of time without prophets on the earth.
Church Organization as Christ established it. This chart shows the major structure and ordinances of Christ's church as recorded in the New Testament and in the writings of the early Christian writers prior to the Council of Nicea.
Church organization as Joseph Smith was directed to do it starting in 1830 and continuing through the Nauvoo period. The same structure and ordinances are clearly seen.
Church organization as it exists in 2009 under the current prophet, Thomas S. Monson. Note that the appearance of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper has changed but that the ordinance still uses the wording recorded by Moroni in the Book of Mormon. No wording for the prayers of the Sacrament was recorded in the New Testament, so it was good that Moroni was directed to include this information, which would have been used at the organizational meeting of the Church on April 6, 1830.

I apologize to blog searchers who have been looking for these charts and have been unable to find them. I am not an experienced blogger, being from a generation of dinosaurs. I did not realize that one posting would not hold all the gallery prints plus the charts. When that blog posting done in August registered "full," I stopped the project and forgot to go back and create a separate posting for charts. A kind phone call reminded me of the oversight. I hope this addition is helpful for those of you who want to use these in your teaching. The photos of the charts were tricky to do with their large surfaces, since we did not bring multiple flash units and tripods on our mission. If the light is not quite even, it was the best we could do under the conditions. These pictures were shot at night without building lights, so as to minimize bright spots from windows, track lighting and flashback caused by oil paints.