The Panama City Panama Temple is the 127th announced temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During a conference held in December 2000, President Gordon B. Hinckley told over 4,500 members of Panama that "the [Mormon] Church would find a way to build a Temple there if they faithfully paid their tithing and kept the other commandments," President Hinckley understood and expressed his concern that the cost of a temple would far exceed the members tithing contributions, but "promised them that the Lord would bless them through the exercise of their faith to obey the [tithing] law." [1]