The Benin City Nigeria Sokponba Stake was organized from a division of the Benin City Nigeria Ikpokpan Stake and the Benin City Nigeria Oregbeni Stake. The new stake includes the following six wards and two branches: the Ekae, Evbuoriaria, Igun 2nd, Sokponba, Ugbekun, and Upper Sokponba Wards, and the Erediauwa and Idogbo Branches. The Benin …
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ACCRA GHANA ADENTA STAKE: (Jan. 21, 2018) President — Michel D. Avegnon, 48, CEO at Smave Company Ltd.; succeeding Daniel Kabason; wife, Suana Avegnon. Counselors — James B. Yeri, 40, human resources specialist, LDS Church; wife, Peace E. Yeri. Richard P. Dadzie, 46, instructor, Leso Computers; wife, Ida A. Dadzie. KAMPALA UGANDA NORTH STAKE: (Jan. …
A new stake was created from the Benoni South Africa and the Centurion South Africa stakes. The Springs South Africa Stake, which consists of the Springs and Tsakane wards, was created by Elder Kevin S. Hamilton, General Authority Seventy and Elder Mervyn C. Giddey, an Area Seventy. Source: Deseret News
Tasara Makasi, 44, and Shamiso Mberengwa Makasi, four children, Ruimsig Ward, Roodepoort South Africa Stake: Zimbabwe Harare Mission, succeeding President T. Jackson Mkhabela and Sister Dorah Mkhabela. Brother Makasi serves as an Area Seventy and is a former stake president, district president, high councilor, institute teacher and missionary in the Zimbabwe Harare Mission. Born in …
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The first convert baptisms in the country of Mali took place this past weekend. Local members report that four converts were baptized in a swimming pool, including two converts from the Bamako Branch and two converts from the Farako Group. Missionaries serving in the Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan Mission have been teaching investigators by Skype for …
The church recently created new stakes in Paynesville, Liberia; Calabar, Nigeria; and Accra, Ghana. Read more at Deseret News.
Source: LDS Church Growth
Source: LDS Church Growth
The following missions will open in July 2018: Cote d’Ivoire Yamoussoukro, Nigeria Ibadan, and Zimbabwe Bulawayo Source: Mormon Newsroom
“With the recent containment of the plague outbreak in Madagascar, missionaries who were temporarily transferred from the Madagascar Antananarivo Mission are preparing to resume their service in that country. At this time, 12 missionaries are in various stages of returning to the island of Madagascar. Additional missionaries will arrive as the mission is ready to …