Three soon-to-be-former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint buildings are set to become full-time community hubs, chock-full of classes like sewing and driver education.

The three structures — West Valley City’s Lighthouse Church , Hillsdale and Whitehall buildings — are due to be decommissioned by the Salt Lake Ctiy-headquartered church as the faith’s demographics change in Utah’s second-largest city.

City leaders plan to convert the buildings into community resource centers , where education nonprofit MyHometown will run free classes for residents. A partnership among the city, the church and the nonprofit has already borne fruit: twice a week an average of 70-plus residents attend classes at a handful of the faith’s buildings in the suburb.

“They are centers of conne

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