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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]
As of July 2024, there are 450 missions of the LDS church. [178] Although missionary service is expected for men, it is not compulsory and is not a requirement for retaining church membership. [179] [180] [181] Unmarried women between the ages of 19 and 29 may also serve as missionaries, [174] [182] generally for a term of 18 months.
The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Friday that single men aged 40 and older will now be able to serve full-time missions.
Missionary Training Centers (MTC) are centers devoted to training missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah , adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned and operated by the church.
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 ...
Utah Provo Mission: January 1, 1989 Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters Mission: January 25, 2008 Utah Saint George Mission: July 1, 2010 Utah Salt Lake City Mission: July 1, 1980 Utah Salt Lake City South Mission: July 1, 1998 Utah Salt Lake City West Mission: July 1, 2012 Utah Salt Lake City Temple Square Mission: February 1, 1991 Utah Saratoga ...
A Latter-day Saint assembly hall in New Zealand in 1912. New Zealand was already deeply religious with many Christian sects by the time Mormon missionaries arrived. [7] Formal LDS Church missionary proselytizing began on 20 October 1854 by William Cooke and Thomas Holden, under the direction of mission president Augustus Farnham.