Two weeks ago, the Church created two new stakes in Benin City, Nigeria. The Benin City Nigeria Ugbowo and Benin City Nigeria Siluoko Stakes were organized from the Benin City Nigeria New Benin and Benin City Nigeria Ihogbe Stakes. The Benin City Nigeria Ugbowo Stake includes the following eight wards: The Adolor, Edaiken, Evbareke, Eweka, …
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New Area Seventies called
During General Conference this past weekend, several area seventies were called from Africa: Edward Dube, 49, Harare, Zimbabwe Aniefiok Udo Inyon, 56, Uyo, Nigeria L. Jean Claude Mabaya, 51, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Adeyinka A. Ojediran, 44, Lagos, Nigeria Daniel Yirenya-Tawiah, 45, Tema, Ghana
First district to be created in Cameroon
Missionaries report that this Sunday the first district of the Church in Cameroon will be organized in Yaounde. It is unclear whether the new district will just include the four branches in Yaounde or also the two branches in Douala. The Church has experienced steady growth in Cameroon over the past decade as membership has …
New mission in Ghana
The Church recently announced a third mission in Ghana: the Ghana Kumasi Mission. This mission is created from parts of the Cape Coast and Accra missions. Read more at LDS Church Growth and LDS Church News.
Elder Holland mentions Africa will receive new missions this year
This year Church leaders will create the 3,000th stake in the Church and Africa will see seven or eight new missions, Elder Holland said. But there will still be only 3 members of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles. also “Little by little, we’re going to see this continent covered by temples,” he predicted. Read …
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South African called as new mission president
Leon Arthur Holmes, 58, and Elizabeth Anne Holmes, five children, Rynfield Ward, Benoni South Africa Stake. Brother Holmes serves as a Sunday School teacher and is a former national public affairs director, stake president and counselor, stake mission president and bishop. Director for temporal affairs in the Africa Southeast Area, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop. …
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Swiss baptisms planted gospel seed in the Congo
In 2007, 28 years after baptizing a young Congolese couple, Mucioko and Mutombo Banza, in Geneva, Switzerland, Dickson Call and Todd Clement learned that the baptisms had assisted in the establishment of the church in the Congo and the conversions of thousands in the years since. At the time of the baptisms, however, the young …
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Senior missionary couples leave the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission
Due to political instability caused by the recent presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LDS Church has withdrawn its non-African senior missionary couples serving in the DR Congo in the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission and is currently housing them in Johannesburg, South Africa. Senior missionary couples serving in nearby Cameroon and …
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New stake in Port Harcourt
A new stake has been created from the Port Harcourt Nigeria and Port Harcourt Nigeria West stakes. The Port Harcourt Nigeria East Stake, which includes the Elelenwo and Eneka branches and Mini-Okoro, Oyigbo, Rumuogba, Umuebule and Woji wards, was created by Elder John B. Dickson of the Seventy. PORT HARCOURT NIGERIA EAST STAKE: (Nov. …
New stake in Nigeria
A new stake was created in Nigeria. The Port Harcourt Nigeria East Stake was created and becomes the third stake in Port Harcourt and the 18th in Nigeria. The first stake in Port Harcourt was organized in 1990 followed by a second stake in 2003 Read the rest of the article at LDS Church Growth.