stakes in Virginia and the Carolinas somewhere nearby without having the enormous cultural gravitational pull of Deseret.

We have large and quickly growing stakes in NoVa, Charlotte, and Raleigh. In broad generalities, half of the active youth head to Utah or BYU-I for school, end up staying there, and eventually many parents follow their kids/grandkids to Utah. Of the other half of active youth that try to tough it out at local schools on the east coast, a large portion go inactive during their college years. Making SVU a legitimate option (similar to BYU-I) would be a game changer for church growth in the Eastern time zone.