Utah
The Church has organized three new stakes in Utah.
A new stake was created in Farmington. The Farmington Utah Farmington Bay Stake was organized on October 25th from a division of the Farmington Utah Stake and the Farmington Utah West Stake. The new stake includes the following eight wards: the Farmington 6th, Farmington 7th, Farmington 16th, Farmington Ranches 1st, Farmington Ranches 3rd, Farmington Ranches 4th, Farmington Ranches 5th, and Meadows Wards. There are now six stakes in Farmington.
A new stake was created in Lehi. The Lehi Utah Jordan River YSA Stake was organized from a division of the Lehi Utah YSA Stake. The new stake includes the following eight wards: the Crossroads YSA, Eagle Mountain YSA, Holbrook Farms YSA, Jordan River YSA, Lehi YSA 1st, Lehi YSA 2nd, Saratoga Springs YSA, and The Ranches YSA Wards. There are now 17 stakes in Lehi and 55 YSA stakes in Utah.
A new stake was created in St George. The St George Utah Crimson Ridge West Stake was organized on November 15th from a division of the St George Utah Crimson Ridge Stake. The new stake includes the following five wards: Cottonwood, Hawthorn, Mulberry, Silkwood, and Sycamore Wards. There are now 19 stakes in St George.
There are now 612 stakes and one district in Utah.
Cote d'Ivoire
The Church organized a new stake in Cote d'Ivoire on November 15th. The Koumassi Cote d'Ivoire Stake was organized from a division of the Port-Bouët Cote d'Ivoire Stake (organized in 2012 and most recently divided in 2016 to create the Grand-Bassam Cote d'Ivoire Stake). The new stake includes the following eight wards and one branch: the Anoumabo, Koumassi, Marcory, Prodomo, Remblais, Sicogi, Vridi 1st, and Vridi 2nd Wards, and the Vridi Canal Branch.
There are now 14 stakes in Abidjan - more stakes than any other city on the Afro-Eurasian landmass. There are now 16 stakes and 17 districts in Cote d'Ivoire. The creation of several additional stakes appears imminent in Cote d'Ivoire. The following stakes are likely to divide to create new stakes in the immediate future: the Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Niangon North Stake (10 wards), the Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire Niangon South Stake (10 wards), the Cocody Cote d'Ivoire Stake (13 wards), the Dokui Cote d'Ivoire Stake (11 wards), and the Yamoussoukro Cote d'Ivoire Stake (10 wards, 1 branch).
The Philippines
The Church organized a new stake in the Philippines on November 8th. The Camiling Philippines Stake was created from the Camiling Philippines District. Information on which of the 11 branches became wards in the new stake remains unavailable. The Church originally organized the Camiling Philippines Stake in 1991, but the stake was discontinued in 2003 and reconstituted into two districts (Camiling East and Camiling West). The districts combined into a single district in 2017.
There are now 116 stakes and 62 districts in the Philippines.
The Republic of the Congo
The Church organized a new stake in the Republic of the Congo on November 8th. The Diata Republic of the Congo Stake was organized from a division of the Brazzaville Republic of the Congo Stake and the Makelekele Republic of the Congo Stake. The new stake includes the following five wards and one branch: the Diata, Mfilou 1st, Moungali, Ouenze, and Tsieme Wards, and the Mfilou 2nd Branch. The Church organized its first stake in Brazzaville in 2003 followed by the creation of a second stake in 2014.
There are now three stakes in Brazzaville. There are now four stakes in the Republic of the Congo.
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Recently organized the "Tegeta Branch - 2174200", the 7th branch of the Dar es Salaam Tanzania District.
I am curious as to how close the Dar es Salaam Tanzania District - 481475, is to becoming a full Stake now with 7 branches organized? With the support of the new Tanzania Dar es Salaam Mission organized this year?
According to the Newsroom Stats, the country of Tanzania at year end 2019 had 1,793 members in 8 congregations.
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/tanzania
Gabon and CAR are part of the Cameroon Yaoundé mission and are no longer tied to Congo Brazzaville. How they develop will depend on the growth in Cameroon.
Congo Brazzaville has established sufficient strength in the two main cities to be able to expand to other smaller cities throughout the country which has been unprecedented.
Hey Matt - Is there no news on these two new stakes?
22. Navegantes Brazil - November 8th, 2020
24. Koumassi Cote d'Ivoire - November 15th, 2020
Reported today the "Kirkland Washington Stake - 521159", that was organized originally April 19th, 1992, has been discontinued.
And was verified on Church Maps website.
Also, the original "Redmond Washington Stake - 509191", organized May 29, 1977, has been renamed "Sammamish Valley Washington - 509191", with the consolidation of the Kirkland Stake.
https://classic.churchofjesuschrist.org/maps/#ll=47.670161,-122.087392&z=11&m=google.hybrid&layers=stakecenter&q=509191&find=stake:509191
I think the 16 stakes in Ivory Coast puts them at twice the number of stakes when the temple was announced.
I have to admit that knowing how many districts there are in Ivory Coast outside Abijan I hope we see several of them advance to stake status in the near future.
Gabon and Central African Republic growth is only somewhat tied to Cameroon. There will still be lots of influence from the decisions of area leadership. The area presidency includes two natives of the Africa Central Area, Elder Sitati from Kenya and Elder Mutombo from the DR Congo who served his mission in Ivory Coast and was a mission president in Baltimore.
Elder Sitati and his wife and children were the first Kenyans to ever go to the temple. He was also the first Kenyan called abroad to be a mission president, being president of the Nigeria Calabar Mission when it covered most of Akwa Ibom.
Elder Sitati twice served in the Africa Southeast Area Presidency. He also was for several years living in Salt Lake City during which time among other assignments he was Ensign/Liahona/New Ea/Friend editor, and under Elder Gay an assistant director of self reliance services and the Perpetual Education Fund. Elder Sitati is by background an engineer.
Elder Mutombo is by background a full-time church employee. His last assignment was over family history in the DR Congo. The DR Congo having temple 2 announced so fast after temple 1 was completed may in part be a result of the success of Elder Mutombo in running family history programming in the DRCongo. Among other things he oversaw 15 or more paid teams that would be sent into various areas, often deeper in the bush than any missionaries gave ever gone, to gather oral family histories from village elders.
Looks like they also transferred the Lake Washington (Spanish) Ward from the Kirkland Stake over to the Bothell Stake, leaving 11 Wards in the combined Sammamish Valley Stake.
Kirkland is changing rapidly from a middle-class family friendly suburb, to an expensive urban high tech center like Silicon Valley with more singles and less families moving in.
Google and Facebook has just announced huge office campuses to be built in Kirkland.
It looks like Washington may be experiencing the demographic changes that lead to the loss of so many units in California.
In the late 1980s people would talk about how California would soon have more members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints than Utah.
I am not sure if those who said such in 1987 really understood cutting demographic changes.
Staring in about 1992 or maybe just before than Church membership declined in California. It has seesawed up and down since 1995. California has experienced net out migration to the rest of the US since 1990 but also has huge numbers of immigrants from outside the US.
Today California has roughly 40 million people. It is getting its 8th temple. Utah has over 3 times the total number of temples as California. Overall Utah has a lower percentage of temples than its percentage of Church members, but in general its temples are larger than the average.
Idaho is poised to overtake California as the state with the second highest number of Church members.
My friends from my mission have told me that a new stake has been created in Casper, Wyoming. The Casper Wyoming East Stake.
May I also politely suggest moving the Casper Wyoming Temple prediction from less likely to more likely. A Temple in Casper can now easily serve 6 stakes...2 in Casper plus Sheridan, Gillette, Riverton and Worland. And it might also be a better temple for the 2 stakes in Cheyenne and the stake in Laramie than Fort Collins is.
Is Idaho really that close to passing California up? I know there has been attrition in the Golden State, but does Idaho have 600,000 members yet?
Or, does California still have more than 700,000?
Off hand, I believe the order of membership might be the following, (others can correct with accuracy and further details):
1. Utah.
2. California.
3. Idaho.
4. Arizona.
5. Washington.
The latest numbers should be here in this blog of Cumorah.com Would be good to check.
Eduardo, Texas is actually ahead of Washington, and California has had around 750,000 members for many years while Idaho membership is only in the neighborhood of 450,000. However, Idaho has been gaining wards and branches, as well as stakes, for many years, while California has lost many of each category. There are now only 27 more congregational units in CA vs ID (1220 compared to 1193). Home prices in the Golden State are the key factor for the drop in units and stalled membership growth, whereas Idaho, AZ, NV, and many areas in UT are far more affordable.
The membership in Idaho is actually closer to 470,000 (462,000 at the end of 2019). After Washington, Nevada, Florida, and Oregon are the next states in order of membership.
Ah, I think Texas is number five! It would be interesting to see the states and their memberships of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria or the Regions of Chile, Peru, Argentina.
So here's the ranking for 12-31-2019:
1. Utah 2,126,216
2. California 756,507
3. Idaho 462,069
4. Arizona 436,521
5. Texas 362,037
6. Washington 289,479
7. Nevada 184,703
8. Florida 160,266
9. Oregon 153,540
10. Colorado 150,509, followed by Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York, and Hawaii
Speaking on California, they have just dissolved the Placentia California Stake in North Orange County as of this past Sunday into the neighboring Anaheim East Stake and the Fullerton Stake; they also dissolved four of the ten wards that had comprised both the Fullerton and Placentia stakes previously, and the Fullerton Stake has been renamed the Brea CA Stake. There is an abundance of church buildings now in Orange County compared to the number of wards, and they just have sold one in Anaheim Hills. The Anaheim East Stake consists of Villa Park/Olive, Anaheim Hills, and Yorba Linda now, and Placentia, Fullerton, Brea, and La Habra are all in the Brea Stake. Even after dissolving the Placentia Stake each is left with 6 and 5 wards respectively. There are no foreign language units in the Anaheim East Stake, but it is still strong since members still move into those neighborhoods from out of state. It’s just too expensive and crowed for many to warrant living in the older neighborhoods of California, especially for young people who want to raise families. Yorba Linda still has four wards (whereas Fullerton now only has 2, despite being twice as populous). It seems that membership in Orange County is concentrating in newer, nicer neighborhoods with good schools, like Ladera Ranch, Rancho Santa Margarita, or San Clemente.
Thank you for the correction Chris! I missed which nations pertained to The Cameroon Yaoundé Mission after it was created but recently sought their webpage which lists the following: Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Central African Republic. Does the Brazaville Mission now just cover the Republic of Congo? Any idea which mission includes São Tomé & Príncipe?
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