Four New Missions Created, New Mission Presidents Called

The Church has organized four new missions—in Florida, Haiti, South Africa, and Ohio.

The Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission is a reactivation of a mission that was discontinued in 1983 when the West Indies Mission was created. The original Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission, opened in 1979, covered all of the Caribbean. Officially in operation on July 1, under President Claud D. Mangum, the reactivated Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission includes within its boundaries three stakes taken from the Florida Tampa Mission—Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach—and the Bahamas, taken from the West Indies Mission. Some 2.7 million people live within its boundaries.

The remaining West Indies Mission now covers the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman. Nearly five million English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking people live within its boundaries, including about 540 members in the Kingston Jamaica District and island branches.

Missionaries of the new Haiti Mission will work among some five million French- and Creole-speaking people of that country. There are currently more than 550 members in the Port-au-Prince Haiti District. The new mission, also taken from the West Indies Mission, will begin operation August 1. James S. Arrigona has been called as its president.

The new South Africa Cape Town Mission includes about two thousand Church members and some 6.5 million residents in the west part of South Africa.

G. Phillip Margetts, who has been serving as president of the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, will be its president. Afrikaans, English, and several African languages are spoken in the mission. The new mission, in operation as of July 1, was taken from the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, organized originally in 1903. That mission now has more than ten thousand members.

The new Ohio Akron Mission, also in operation as of July 1, was taken from the Ohio Cleveland Mission. It covers the northeast corner of Ohio, including the historic Kirtland area. There are nearly six thousand members among the more than three million people living within the mission boundaries. Ohio also contains the Ohio Columbus Mission and parts of the Kentucky Louisville and West Virginia Charleston Missions.

In addition to these announcements, the First Presidency has called the following brethren as mission presidents. Their assignments begin this month.

President	Mission
J. Duffy Palmer	Africa West
Melvin M. Hall (transferred from Philippines Davao Mission)	Alabama Birmingham
Heber D. Perrett	Alaska Anchorage
Jorge O. Abad	Argentina Buenos Aires South
Carlos R. Fernandez	Argentina Cordoba
Jesse E. Stay	Argentina Rosario
F. Mac Bay	Arizona Holbrook
Lloyd P. George	Arizona Tempe
LaMont L. Bennett	Arkansas Little Rock
Spencer J. Condie	Austria Vienna
F. Melvin Hammond	Bolivia Cochabamba
Cory Wm. Bangerter	Brazil Rio de Janeiro
Robert R. Steuer	Brazil Sao Paulo North
Roger W. Call	Brazil Sao Paulo South
Curtis N. Van Alfen	California Anaheim
Robert C. Meier	California Arcadia
Robert D. Linnell	California Fresno
Clarence R. Campbell	California Los Angeles
Norman N. White	California Sacramento
Clair E. Rosenberg	California San Diego
Karl T. Homer	California San Jose
Newell A. Barney	California Ventura
Claudio Signorelli	Chile Osorno
Stewart E. Glazier	Chile Santiago North
Lynn A. Mickelsen	Colombia Cali
James D. Caldwell	Colorado Denver
Svend H. P. Svendsen	Denmark Copenhagen
Veigh J. Nielson	England Coventry
Dixie L. Leavitt	England Leeds
Wilbur C. Woolf	Fiji Suva
Melvin J. Luthy	Finland Helsinki
Claud D. Mangum	Florida Ft. Lauderdale
Floyd L. Packard	Florida Tallahassee
James D. Fife	France Paris
Bruce M. Lake	Germany Munich
Gary E. Elliott	Guatemala Guatemala City
Juan Manuel Cedeno	Guatemala Quezaltenango
James S. Arrigona	Haiti Port-au-Prince
William O. Perry, III	Hawaii Honolulu
Boyd K. Storey	Idaho Boise
Douglas W. Cleghorn	Iowa Des Moines
Koichi Aoyagi	Japan Sendai
Robert D. Goodwin	Japan Tokyo South
Allen C. Ostergar, Jr.	Kentucky Louisville
James M. Harper	Korea Pusan
M. Moreno Robins	Mexico Guadalajara
Jorge H. Perez (transferred from Guatemala Quezaltenango Mission)	Mexico Merida
Quinton S. Harris	Mexico Mexico City North
Jack T. Beecroft	Mexico Veracruz
Richard N. McDougal	Michigan Lansing
F. Edward Bennett	Minnesota Minneapolis
V. Loren Chapman	Nevada Las Vegas
Dale R. Shumway	New York Rochester
John R. Lasater	New Zealand Auckland
Carleton Q. Anderson	Paraguay Asuncion
Dean M. Hansen	Pennsylvania Harrisburg
W. ElDean Holliday	Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Dale H. Christensen	Peru Lima South
Reynaldo I. Vergara	Philippines Davao
Reuben Perry Ficklin	Portugal Lisbon
Tagaloa Malini Ti’a	Samoa Apia
Joel J. Dunn	Scotland Edinburgh
G. Phillip Margetts (transferred from South Africa Johannesburg)	South Africa Cape Town
Maurice B. Bateman	South Africa Johannesburg
J. Weston Daw	South Carolina Columbia
Ricardo Valencia	Spain Barcelona
Erik G. Johnson	Sweden Stockholm
David J. Sperry	Switzerland Geneva
Stephen L. Graham	Tahiti Papeete
Richard E. Black	Tennessee Nashville
D. Keith Myres	Texas Houston
Lavar D. Skousen	Venezuela Caracas
R. LaMar Bradshaw	Washington Seattle
D. Heyward Davis, Jr.	Wisconsin Milwaukee