Showing posts with label Case Study Essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Case Study Essays. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Recently Completed Case Study Essays (October 2012 - April 2013)
It's been a while since I have provided an update on recently completed case study essays. See below for some interesting topics that I have researched and written about within the past six months. We will be categorizing these on cumorah.com to make navigation easier as we have now posted over 100 case studies.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Lowering the Minimum Mission Age: Analysis and Predictions for Growth for the LDS Church
We have posted the case study Lowering the Minimum Mission Age: Analysis and Predictions for Growth of the LDS Church on cumorah.com. The updated case study includes several graphs and some additional material not included in the previous draft I posted on the blog. Click here to access the case study.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Recently Completed LDS Church Growth Case Studies
At cumorah.com, we have recently posted several additional case studies that examine various topics pertaining to missionary work and church growth. These case studies include:
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
New Case Studies Added on Cumorah.com
On cumorah.com, we have posted 14 recently completed case studies examining various topics relating to LDS Church growth. Links to these case studies are provided below. View case studies in any web browser except Internet Explorer.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Recent Church Growth News
New Stake in Tonga
A new stake was created last Sunday in Tonga on the main island of Nuku'alofa. The Nuku'alofa Tonga Matahau Stake was created from two stakes on the western side of the island. There are now 18 stakes and two districts in Tonga. The last new stake created in Tonga was in 2008.
New Stake in Texas
A new stake was created last Sunday in Texas. The Heath Texas Stake was created from the Richardson Texas Stake and perhaps another nearby stake in the Dallas area. I will provide more details on the new stake once they become available. There are now 57 stakes and three districts in Texas
Number of Branches in Benin Doubles
The number of independent mission branches in the African country of Benin increased from three to six last month. The three new branches were previously meeting as groups and include the Fidjrosse, Finagnon, and Gbegame Branches. The Church has yet to organize these six branches into their own district and they continue to report directly to the Benin Cotonou Mission. A shortage of priesthood leaders remains a serious challenge.
Group Organized in Previously Unreached City in Kenya
Missionaries serving in the Kenya Nairobi Mission report that a new group was recently organized in the previously unreached city of Naivasha, Kenya. Senior missionaries indicate that there are upwards of 80 investigators attending church services and that group leadership is staffed by an isolated Latter-day Saint family. Prospects appear good for the group to become its own branch in the near future.
City Opens for Missionary Work in Angola
Missionaries serving in the Mozambique Maputo Mission report that the Area Presidency recently approved the assignment of full-time missionaries to the Angolan city of Huambo. The Church assigned proselytizing missionaries to Angola for the first time in 2008 but missionaries were only assigned to the capital city Luanda until just the past year or two when a second city (Lubango) opened. Additional cities have small numbers of isolated members and investigators meeting and await the establishment of official LDS missionary activity.
Cities Opening in Brazil
Missionaries serving in the Brazil Belem Mission report that they have recently visited several large, previously unreached cities in Para State that have small groups of members meeting under the Brazil Belem Mission Branch. Two cities in particular - Parauapebas and Paragominas - have been visited and missionaries helped increase church attendance to as high as 60 in one of the groups. The Church has literally hundreds of additional cities to open with over 20,000 inhabitants and favorable conditions for church planting but has made little progress within the past ten years. I have recently written a case study on expanding LDS outreach in Brazil for cumorah.com which will be posted in the coming month.
New Branches Created in Europe
Mission presidents report two new branches recently organized in Europe. In Spain, the first LDS branch in Ibiza was created last Sunday and pertains to the Baleares Spain District. The new branch has about 60 attending church services and has been a major success for the Spain Barcelona Mission. Many of the branch members relocated to the island from Ecuador. In the Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission, a new Portuguese-speaking branch was created in Rotterdam. Two Brazilian missionaries have been assigned to the branch and the branch has become the first Portuguese-speaking branch in the mission.
Any other LDS growth developments you know of? Please comment.
A new stake was created last Sunday in Tonga on the main island of Nuku'alofa. The Nuku'alofa Tonga Matahau Stake was created from two stakes on the western side of the island. There are now 18 stakes and two districts in Tonga. The last new stake created in Tonga was in 2008.
New Stake in Texas
A new stake was created last Sunday in Texas. The Heath Texas Stake was created from the Richardson Texas Stake and perhaps another nearby stake in the Dallas area. I will provide more details on the new stake once they become available. There are now 57 stakes and three districts in Texas
Number of Branches in Benin Doubles
The number of independent mission branches in the African country of Benin increased from three to six last month. The three new branches were previously meeting as groups and include the Fidjrosse, Finagnon, and Gbegame Branches. The Church has yet to organize these six branches into their own district and they continue to report directly to the Benin Cotonou Mission. A shortage of priesthood leaders remains a serious challenge.
Group Organized in Previously Unreached City in Kenya
Missionaries serving in the Kenya Nairobi Mission report that a new group was recently organized in the previously unreached city of Naivasha, Kenya. Senior missionaries indicate that there are upwards of 80 investigators attending church services and that group leadership is staffed by an isolated Latter-day Saint family. Prospects appear good for the group to become its own branch in the near future.
City Opens for Missionary Work in Angola
Missionaries serving in the Mozambique Maputo Mission report that the Area Presidency recently approved the assignment of full-time missionaries to the Angolan city of Huambo. The Church assigned proselytizing missionaries to Angola for the first time in 2008 but missionaries were only assigned to the capital city Luanda until just the past year or two when a second city (Lubango) opened. Additional cities have small numbers of isolated members and investigators meeting and await the establishment of official LDS missionary activity.
Cities Opening in Brazil
Missionaries serving in the Brazil Belem Mission report that they have recently visited several large, previously unreached cities in Para State that have small groups of members meeting under the Brazil Belem Mission Branch. Two cities in particular - Parauapebas and Paragominas - have been visited and missionaries helped increase church attendance to as high as 60 in one of the groups. The Church has literally hundreds of additional cities to open with over 20,000 inhabitants and favorable conditions for church planting but has made little progress within the past ten years. I have recently written a case study on expanding LDS outreach in Brazil for cumorah.com which will be posted in the coming month.
New Branches Created in Europe
Mission presidents report two new branches recently organized in Europe. In Spain, the first LDS branch in Ibiza was created last Sunday and pertains to the Baleares Spain District. The new branch has about 60 attending church services and has been a major success for the Spain Barcelona Mission. Many of the branch members relocated to the island from Ecuador. In the Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission, a new Portuguese-speaking branch was created in Rotterdam. Two Brazilian missionaries have been assigned to the branch and the branch has become the first Portuguese-speaking branch in the mission.
Any other LDS growth developments you know of? Please comment.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
LDS Mission Outreach among Nepali-Bhutanese and Karen Refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah
At cumorah.com, we are writing a case study on recent LDS growth among Nepali-Bhutanese and Karen refugees in the Salt Lake City area. The Church opened its first Karen-speaking branch in 2009 to meet the needs of increasing numbers of Karen refugees joining the Church. The Karen are an ethnic minority group in eastern Burma who have been targetted by the current political regime in Burma, resulting in many fleeing to refugee camps in neighboring Thailand. Earlier this year, the Church opened its first Nepali-speaking branch in the United States in Salt Lake City to service an increasing number of Nepali-Bhutanese refugees joining the Church. These refugees are ethnic Nepalis who lived in Bhutan but have fled the country into refugee camps in neighboring Nepal and India and, like the Karen, are being accepted by the United States and resettled in many major cities such as Salt Lake City.
We are looking for any current information on the language usage, convert retention, receptivity to LDS teachings and proselytism efforts, and humanitarian and development work relating to these two people groups. Please comment if you have additional information or insight.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Internet and LDS Church Growth
At cumorah.com we have recently posted a case study essay examining the influence of the internet on LDS Church growth. To access the case study, click here. The case study can be viewed in all web browsers except Internet Explorer.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Additional Case Studies Posted on Cumorah.com
In coordination with David Stewart of cumorah.com, we have posted an additional 14 church growth case study essays. Topics explored in these recently completed essays are listed below:
- LDS Ethnic Minority Outreach in the United States
- Assessing Member Activity
- LDS Growth among Slovak Immigrants in Sheffield, England
- Prospective LDS Outreach among the Hmong (Miao) in Southeast Asia
- Top Five Encouraging and Discouraging Church Growth Developments: 2006-2011
- LDS Growth in Benin City, Nigeria
- LDS Church Growth Among the Miskito in Nicaragua
- Comparing LDS Church Growth in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Successful LDS Outreach Expansion in Hungary
- Projecting LDS Membership Growth
- Reasons for Quick-Baptism Tactics in the LDS Church
- Prospective LDS Outreach among the Yakut of Russia
- LDS Outreach Expansion in Madagascar
- LDS Temples and Impact on Church Growth
Monday, February 20, 2012
Additional Case Study Essays Posted on Cumorah.com
In coordination with David Stewart at cumorah.com, we have posted an additional nine church growth case study essays. Topics explored in these recently completed essays are listed below:
- Outreach efforts among the Tzotzil Amerindians
- Unofficial groups of self-identified Latter-day Saints in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Failed efforts to expand LDS outreach in Greece
- The impact of changing area policies on church growth
- Meetinghouse construction and LDS Church growth
- Unreached islands in the Philippines
- Government restrictions and LDS growth
- Methods of LDS outreach in Muslim nations
- Rapid LDS growth in Sarawak, East Malaysia
- Projecting LDS membership growth
- LDS ethnic minority outreach in the United States
- Assessing member activity
- Prospective LDS outreach among Hmong (Miao) populations in China and Southeast Asia
- Top five encouraging and discouraging church growth developments: 2006-2011
- LDS Church growth among the Miskito of Nicaragua
- Comparing LDS Church growth in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Self-sufficiency and LDS growth
- LDS growth in Benin City, Nigeria
- Successful LDS national outreach expansion in Hungary
- LDS growth among Slovak immigrants in Sheffield, England
- LDS temples and growth
- Reasons for implementing quick-baptism approaches in the LDS Church
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Several New Case Study Essays Posted
In coordination with David Stewart at cumorah.com, we have posted nine church growth case studies which examine specific topics in relation to LDS Church growth. Case studies currently posted examine the following topics and are provided with links to the articles:
- How to effectively open a city for missionary work
- Missed opportunities for LDS growth among the Nahua Amerindians in Mexico
- LDS Church planting in Sunyani, Ghana
- LDS Church growth in Ceara State, Brazil
- Rapid LDS growth in Western Province, Papua New Guinea
- Analysis of discontinued stakes worldwide
- Missionary training centers (MTCs) and growth
- LDS outreach expansion in Awasa, Ethiopia
- Translating church materials into additional languages
- Outreach efforts among the Tzotzil Amerindians
- Unofficial groups of investigators meeting under the LDS Church's name
- Failed efforts to expand outreach in Greece
- The impact of changing area policies on LDS growth
- Meetinghouse construction and LDS growth
- Projecting LDS membership growth
- LDS growth among the Miskito of Nicaragua
- Unreached islands in the Philippines
- Comparing LDS growth trends in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Methods of LDS Outreach in Muslim nations
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