Update: Missions of the Church

Missions

Full-time Missionaries

Year	Full-time Missionaries	Missions
July 1982	26,300	180
July 1983	26,565	178
July 1984	27,655	180
July 1985	29,265	188
July 1986	29,670	193

The number of missions in the Church has grown over the past five years, and increasingly more missionaries have responded to calls to serve the Lord in the Church’s expanding missionary effort. As the length of missionary service was shortened to eighteen months in 1982, then lengthened again to twenty-four months in 1985, the numbers of missionaries were reduced in the field during 1983 and also in parts of 1982 and 1984.