Church Announces Four New Missions, 2019 Boundary Realignments
Missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk across the grounds of the Peru Missionary Training Center on October 19, 2018. The Church announced January 2 that it is creating four new missions and dissolving 12 existing missions, effective July 1, 2019. With these changes, there will be 399 missions worldwide. Photo by Sarah Jane Weaver.
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- Four new and 12 realigned missions will bring the total to 399 in July 2019.
Four newly created missions have been announced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with 12 existing missions being dissolved into neighboring missions.
These changes will take place July 1, at which time the Church will have a total of 399 missions worldwide.
The new missions are:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa East
- Guatemala Antigua
- Peru Limatambo
- Philippines Antipolo
The 12 existing missions to be folded into neighboring missions—including seven in the United States—are:
- Argentina Posadas
- California Irvine
- California Long Beach
- California Rancho Cucamonga
- Canada Halifax
- Florida Tallahassee
- Georgia Macon
- Idaho Nampa
- Japan Sendai
- Korea Daejeon
- New York Utica
- Virginia Chesapeake
The mission changes were announced in a Wednesday, January 2, Newsroom statement, which noted a leveling off in the number of full-time missionaries since the 2012 age-change announcement. The number reached 88,000 at its height and has dropped since to today’s 65,000.
Parents of missionaries serving in the affected missions—whether created or dissolved—will receive additional information from their mission presidents. Information about new mission presidents will be announced later in January.
