- China - 10,000 members?
- Malaysia - 9,725 members - 34 branches - 6 districts
- Liberia - 9,675 members - 24 branches - 3 districts
- Guyana - 5,648 members - 13 branches - 1 district
- Belize - 5,152 members - 11 branches - 2 districts
- Pakistan - 4,000 members - 13 branches - 3 districts
- Romania - 3,043 members - 16 branches - 2 districts
- Czech Republic - 2,503 members - 13 branches - 2 districts
- Bulgaria - 2,424 members - 9 branches - 0 districts
- Malawi - 2,143 members - 8 branches - 2 districts
- Angola - 1,908 members - 10 branches - 1 district
- Ethiopia - 1,903 members - 5 branches - 1 district
- Poland - 1,861 members - 13 branches - 3 districts
- Swaziland - 1,837 members - 6 branches - 1 district
- Cook Islands - 1,835 members - 5 branches - 1 district
- Suriname - 1,483 members - 6 branches - 1 district
- Cameroon - 1,480 members - 11 branches - 1 district
- Tanzania - 1,456 members - 6 branches - 1 district
- Macau - 1,410 members - 3 branches - 1 district
Monday, April 25, 2016
Updated List of the Countries with the Most Members without a Stake
Below is an updated list of the countries with the most Latter-day
Saints without a stake. Membership totals are as of 2015 and
congregational and district totals are current. Membership for mainland China is an estimates as no official statistics are available. The
number of branches and districts in mainland China is not provided due to the sensitive nature of the
Church in that country. Previous lists of the countries with the most members without a stake can be found here.
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I wonder if there would even be an announcement if a stake were created in China. I also wonder if a foreign or a native district reaches that point first, but we may never know.
Hong Kong is politically a part of China and is a ferry ride from the mainland, as close perhaps as Staten Island to the rest of NY or NJ. Also, China has claims to Taiwan as a "renegade province" which also has multiple stakes.
Malaysia and Brunei need more development. And now Vietnam.
The boundary between the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region and Guangdong province is a land border with border checks on the numerous crossings. The Hong Kong temple is on the mainland. No ferry is needed, as there are numerous bridges and the metro between between the island and the New Territories of Hong Kong.
Yes, so I guess it's safe to say that China does have stakes. Not Communist China, if we wish to define it as that.
There will be many beautiful temples in mainland China someday; and in the meantime the situation seems ideal -- growth is the biggest problem in the church and China is free to grow quietly, without physical facilities or committing fulltime missionaries; but with quiet work of local people, which, given our limits, all seem like benefits, short- or long-term.
Freedom of movement between regions in China is restricted. I think about the building of the temple in East Germany to avoid boarder crossings and wonder if something similar could happen there; if they could provide temples throughout China soon to reduce the need to travel to Hong Kong. I don't know though; does anyone know if Chinese members in mainland China are permitted to attend the temple in Hong Kong or do they need to be truly abroad? If they do attend in Hong Kong, do they keep that temple busy?
I have some news for the chinese members. In the Yale (Mandarin) ward in the Irvine stake, we have been planing on starting a chinese member group or hopefully a branch, in the Mission Viejo area. The Yale ward has many members in the south orange county area, but recently there has been growth in Mission Viejo by an member that use to be our ward and left and has been doing great work by converting chinese families. It could take a while, because they would need to find leadership and find areas for the branch to proselytize in the mandarin language. There has also been rumors on starting a chinese branch in the Los Angeles area. Im so thankful for the church to be a worldwide church for everyone.
Either Malaysia has a lot more branches with few active members, or Liberia has a lot more inactive members than Malaysia. Liberia has suffered through civil wars that at times cut members off from the Church, and the stake that was formed there was discontinued due to various issues. Hopefully both countries will see a stake very soon. I wonder if the Church in China is stable enough to form a stake.
I had a roommate at BYU who served his mission in Hong Kong. He told us that they always had ridiculously high baptismal goals on the hope a bus full of people ready to be baptized would show up from the main part of China. I asked if that ever happened. He said it was never a bus full but they did have people come into Hong Kong with the goal of being baptized in the LDS Church.
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