{"id":254,"date":"2014-02-18T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-02-18T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:55:10","slug":"unprecedented-membership-and-congregational-growth-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/unprecedented-membership-and-congregational-growth-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Membership and Congregational Growth in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An article published in the LDS Church News this past weekend provided what appears to be year-end 2013 membership statistics for the seven countries in the Africa West Area with an LDS presence.\u00a0 The article indicates that there were nearly 20,000 convert baptisms in the Africa West Area.\u00a0 See below for an analysis of membership growth numbers of these seven countries provided with annual percentage growth for 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.ca\/2014\/02\/unprecedented-membership-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+LdsChurchGrowth+(LDS+Church+Growth)\">LDS Church Growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article published in the LDS Church News this past weekend provided what appears to be year-end 2013 membership statistics for the seven countries in the Africa West Area with an LDS presence.\u00a0 The article indicates that there were nearly 20,000 convert baptisms in the Africa West Area.\u00a0 See below for an analysis of membership &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/unprecedented-membership-and-congregational-growth-in-west-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unprecedented Membership and Congregational Growth in West Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missions","category-stakes-districts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31AuT-46","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}