Today the LDS Church assigned its first proselytizing missionaries to Rwanda after several years of waiting. Members in Kigali report that two missionaries will serve in the Kigali Branch and begin formal missionary activity. Although the Church officially organized its one and only branch in Rwanda back in 2008, proselytizing missionaries have not been assigned …
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Missionaries serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission report that the government of Gabon granted official recognition to the Church and that the Church may send full-time proselytizing missionaries and participate in any of its religious practices in the country. Read more at LDS Church Growth
The mission president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission recently visited Bangui, Central African Republic to meet local members and church leadership, visit the President of the Central African Republic, and to assess conditions for opening the country to formal proselytism. LDS Church Growth.
Kathryn White Egan, 64, who served with her husband, Robert M. Egan, as he presided over the South Africa Cape Town Mission from 2005-08, died April 9, 2012, in Sandy, Utah. via LDS Church News
John Edafe Kosin, 55, and Christiana Chuko Igbigbi Kosin, seven children, Nigeria Calabar Mission; Ughelli Branch, Warri Nigeria District. Brother Kosin is a former counselor in the Nigeria Port Harcourt Mission, district president and counselor, bishop and branch president. Manager, Ughelli Power Plc. Born in Kokori, Nigeria, to Samuel Onofekohwo and Lucky Emagege Ititi Kosin. …
Paulo Vicente Kretly, 50, and Adriana Quatel Silva Kretly, four children, Mozambique Maputo Mission; Ferreira Ward, S? Paulo Brazil Ferreira Stake. Brother Kretly serves as a counselor in the Brazil Missionary Training Center and is a former stake president and counselor, bishop and missionary in the Brazil Recife Mission. CEO, FranklinCovey Consulting Brazil. Born in Bauru, S? …
The Church recently announced a third mission in Ghana: the Ghana Kumasi Mission. This mission is created from parts of the Cape Coast and Accra missions. Read more at LDS Church Growth and LDS Church News.
This year Church leaders will create the 3,000th stake in the Church and Africa will see seven or eight new missions, Elder Holland said. But there will still be only 3 members of the First Presidency and 12 Apostles. also “Little by little, we’re going to see this continent covered by temples,” he predicted. Read …
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Leon Arthur Holmes, 58, and Elizabeth Anne Holmes, five children, Rynfield Ward, Benoni South Africa Stake. Brother Holmes serves as a Sunday School teacher and is a former national public affairs director, stake president and counselor, stake mission president and bishop. Director for temporal affairs in the Africa Southeast Area, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop. …
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In 2007, 28 years after baptizing a young Congolese couple, Mucioko and Mutombo Banza, in Geneva, Switzerland, Dickson Call and Todd Clement learned that the baptisms had assisted in the establishment of the church in the Congo and the conversions of thousands in the years since. At the time of the baptisms, however, the young …
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