Click here to access the May 2026 newsletter for cumorah.com. This month's newsletter features an in-depth analysis of newly released 2025 state-by-state Church statistics for the United States, including historical trends in membership, congregations, wards, branches, and stakes spanning nearly four decades. The analysis highlights a year of essentially flat membership growth but continued organizational expansion through the creation of additional congregations and stakes, together with new insights into long-term changes in Church organization. Also included are updates on the first branch organized in São Tomé and Príncipe, the assignment of Seychelles to a mission for the first time, the announcement of the Otavalo Ecuador Temple, and the completion of The Cumorah Foundation's comprehensive historical database of U.S. Church statistics.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Comprehensive Historical Database of Church Growth Statistics and April 2026 Newsletter
Click here to access our April 2026 newsletter for cumorah.com. We will again begin issuing monthly newsletters going forward. Archived newsletters dating back to 2012 are also available on the site here.
The most significant announcement from The Cumorah Foundation this month is the completion of a comprehensive historical database of country-by-country Church statistics spanning more than a century. The database includes annual membership totals dating back to 1920 (when available) as well as annual statistics for congregations (including ward and branch breakdowns), stakes, districts, missions, and temples (announced and dedicated) for every country or territory for which data have been published by the Church. Historical data for wards, branches, stakes, districts, missions, and temples are available from 1987–2025.
Data were compiled from the retired Deseret News Church Almanac series and the Church’s official Newsroom site where annual country-by-country statistics have been published. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive publicly available compilation of historical Church statistics ever assembled.
This resource provides valuable data for researchers, historians, journalists, members, and others interested in analyzing long-term trends in Church growth, missionary expansion, organizational development, congregational consolidation, and geographic outreach throughout the world. Users can identify historical milestones, compare regional growth patterns, and examine changes in Church development over time at both global and national levels.
The database is available for viewing in Google Sheets and may also be downloaded here.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
May 2025 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access our monthly newsletter for cumorah.com for the month of May.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
December 2024 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access the December 2024 monthly newsletter for cumorah.com. I will be finishing the post on stake growth trends in Utah in the next week or so.
Monday, December 9, 2024
November 2024 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access the November 2024 newsletter for cumorah.com. My goal is to produce these monthly newsletters again after a 16-month hiatus to chronicle church growth developments and announce new resources on cumorah.com.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Monthly Newsletters - May 2023, June 2023, and July 2023
See below to access monthly newsletters for cumorah.com. August's monthly newsletter should be available soon as well.
Friday, August 4, 2023
Newsletter Update
As some of you have commented, monthly newsletters for cumorah.com have not been posted since our most recent edition in April 2023. This has been due to many things in my life at the moment that have limited my time to write them. However, I am hopeful that these newsletters will be completed and posted in the coming weeks. There have been many significant developments in recent months that will be covered in these newsletters.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Saturday, April 15, 2023
March 2023 Monthly Newsletter
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Monday, March 20, 2023
February 2023 Newsletter
I apologize I forgot to post this on the blog. Click here to access the February 2023 monthly newsletter for cumorah.com.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Saturday, December 10, 2022
November 2022 Monthly Newsletter
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Friday, November 11, 2022
Saturday, October 15, 2022
September 2022 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access the September 2022 monthly newsletter for cumorah.com.
Monday, September 5, 2022
August 2022 Newsletter
Click here to access the August 2022 Newsletter for cumorah.com. Notable updates include the creation of a new branch in Gabon, a member group established in the third largest city in Piauí State, Brazil, and the creation of a third stake in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Saturday, July 2, 2022
June 2022 Newsletter
Click here to access the June 2022 newsletter for cumorah.com. There were a significant number of developments during the past month, and I did my best to capture most of them.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Monday, May 9, 2022
April 2022 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access the April 2022 monthly newsletter for cumorah.com. The newsletter archives can be accessed here back to 2012 - the year that we began to produce monthly newsletters.