(Djamila Grossman | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jonathan Hickerson paints as he worships at The Mount, a service for young adults at Mount Olympus Presbyterian Church on the Salt Lake Valley's east bench on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011.
BY LISA SCHENCKER
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Nov 04 2011 09:51AMUpdated Nov 4, 2011 06:52PM
Churches like the new, nondenominational EastLake offer short services punctuated with drums and electric guitars. Other more traditional churches such as Mount Olympus Presbyterian Church on the valley’s east bench have added looser, more relaxed young adult services to their repertoire. And this year, Utah’s predominant faith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dissolved its student congregations, creating new Young Single Adult wards partly to stem the loss of active Mormons between ages 18 and 30, LDS apostle M. Russell Ballard said earlier this year.
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