- Angola Luanda
- Ghana Kumasi
There has been no official announcement of either mission, but the number of missionaries assigned to these two areas has steadily increased within the past six months and it appears that preparations are underway for the creation of new missions in these locations.
Although it is not official, it is likely that the New York Rochester and New York Utica missions will be merging. They may wait until next year but there seems to be preparations for this to happen soon.
ReplyDeleteThat does seem likely. I grew up in the Potsdam District in the New York Utica Mission and it was not exactly exploding in membership. In my branch, which was the largest by at least half, we baptized an average of two people a year, who would then either go inactive within a month or leave eventually because they were college students. The next closest branch was discontinued, giving us a net gain of two members. Our branch was also the only one in the district with an appreciable number of youth and so we always went to Albany for youth conferences and dances.
ReplyDeleteSo in summary, I certainly hope the missions are being combined because it's about time the Church stops wasting resources there while countless more receptive and deserving areas go without anything. I'm not exactly sure how it would work, though, because at least in my district all the congregations were a half hour to an hour apart so sharing missionary couples might not be plausible. But maybe the other congregations don't need missionaries because I'm pretty sure they had even fewer baptisms than we did.
The reports of the demise of a New York Mission were premature and not warrented.
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