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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 449 missions [1] throughout the world, as of June 2024. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city.
The LDS Church is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, reporting that it had more than 67,000 full-time missionaries and 30,000 service missionaries worldwide at the end of 2023. [2]
In 1982, the church renamed its edition of the Book of Mormon to "The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ". Pre-1995 church logo. In 1995, the church announced a new logo design that emphasized the words "Jesus Christ" in large capital letters, and de-emphasized the words "The Church of" and "of Latter-day Saints".
The first missionaries arrived in 1980. As of December 31, 2022, there were 36,626 members in 92 congregations, making it the largest body of LDS Church members in Melanesia and the fifth largest in Oceania. [4]
[9] [10] On August 1, 2014, the LDS Church announced that it would transfer all of its 274 missionaries out of Sierra Leone and Liberia, thereby closing the Liberia Monrovia Mission for the duration of the outbreak. [9] [10] [11] In July 2015, a new mission president returned to Liberia to reopen the mission. New missionaries were called and a ...
This used baseball and other team sports as a way to bring young teenage boys into the LDS Church. Introduced by mission president T. Bowring Woodbury, who led the British mission from October 1958 to January 1962, it dramatically increased the baptism rate for new converts (in 1962 there were 12,000 converts alone) but controversy over the ...
The LDS Church mission with the smallest geographic area (approximately 10 acres) is the Utah Salt Lake Temple Square Mission, in which missionaries from around the world serve on Temple Square, often to visitors from their own homelands. These missionaries serve at Temple Square, and occasionally serve in another mission in another part of the ...
Since then, the LDS Church in Peru has grown to more than 600,000 members in 779 congregations. [1] Peru ranks as having the 2nd most members of the LDS Church in South America, behind Brazil, and the 5th worldwide. In addition, It has the third most LDS Church members per capita in South America, behind Chile and Uruguay. [4]