Grahams Are the New Ghana Temple President and Matron - Effective November 1, 2015

Stephen LaMar Graham, 71,  Oak Hills 2nd Ward, Provo Utah Oak Hills Stake, was called as president of the Accra Ghana Temple,  succeeding President George B. Afful.  President Graham's wife, Vanessa Jane Schofield Graham, will serve as temple matron, succeeding Sister Victoria B. Afful.  He serves as a senior missionary couple chaplain at BYU-Hawaii. He has served as president of the Tahiti Papeete Mission,  president of the Ghana MissionaryTraining Center, bishop and temple ordinance worker.

Retired associate director of training at the Provo MissionaryTraining Center,  he was born in Rigby, Idaho, to Leonard Everett and Evelyn Green Graham.  Sister Graham serves as a senior missionary couple at BYU-Hawaii.  She served with her husband as he presided over the Tahiti Papeete Mission and over the Ghana Missionary Training Center. She has also served as stake and ward Young Women camp director, counselor in a ward Relief Society presidency, ward Primary president and temple ordinance worker .She was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, to John Armitage Schofield and Irene Plumtree Mark Clayton. (This is be announced in the Church News tomorrow, April 18, 2015).