Each area within the legal boundaries of the Forest came under both a church district and a civic district.

Certainly not anyone she knew in their church district.

District Elders are mostly leaders of a regional church district.

Rules for the outside world included you had to write weekly letters of confession back to the elders in the church district.

All of these births occurred within the church district.

So we're going back to the church district.

Everything in the church district was always clean.

"The elders made you watch every time anyone in the church district had a child," Adam says.

Membership was estimated at over 80,000 in almost 900 church districts.

The 56 church districts are divided into 1320 parishes.