Very interesting gems in the link below. Don't know where to begin except that West Africa is where nearly all growth is these days and it's no exaggeration:

http://cumorah.com/index.php?target=view_case_studies&story_id=481&cat_id=8

Brigham Young would be so proud.

Yep...How utterly and sadly ironic...All that growth in nations the Church avoided up until just 40 years ago due to the predominant skin color of the populace.

My brain keeps trying to add the letter "l" ...as in the first letter in letter



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I had to read it about four times to make the "l" go away.

The stone cut without hands has almost stopped rolling.

Maybe it is about to start rolling backwards.

From the site:

"LDS growth rates in the United States continued to decelerate in 2017 as part of a trend of slowing growth that began approximately 15 years ago.

As of late December, the Church in the United States reported no net change for the number of congregations for the entire year (184 new wards/branches organized, 184 wards/branches discontinued). To contrast, the Church in the United States has historically reported a net increase of 100-150 new wards/branches a year during the past decade...."

There is a supposed reason:

"However, emphasis on the organization of larger wards in some areas of the country in order to better maximize LDS meetinghouses and provide more socialization opportunities for youth has appeared partially responsible for these changes."

Membership growth:

"Membership growth rates have also continued to decelerate. Annual membership growth rates decreased to the lowest level reported by the Church since 1988 during 2016 (0.9%). To contrast, the Church generally reported annual membership growth rates of approximately 2.0% in the late 1990s and early 2000s..."

Growth is cut by more than 50% - from 2.0% twenty years ago to 0.9% recently. Tough to be a missionary almost anywhere now.

This is purely anecdotal - Exmormon.org visits have stayed the same or grown since 2000. We are still over 200,000 hits per day even with the proliferation of other sites. This is approximately 20,000-35,000 unique visitors per day depending on the day of the week. More and more people are searching on Mormonism and leaving the corporation in developed countries.



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Eric K Wrote:
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> "Membership growth rates have also continued to
> decelerate. Annual membership growth rates
> decreased to the lowest level reported by the
> Church since 1988 during 2016 (0.9%).


"The latest data from the Census Bureau shows that US population growth for 2016 is running at between 0.7% and 0.9% per year."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States)

They're pretty much at the same figure as population growth overall in the US. And below most of the world.

Shrinkage is a reality :)

Remember, it's about the $, which LDS Inc. Refused to disclose.

Am I correct in my belief that the church has never made a year end announcement regarding how many resignations were received that calendar year?

You can visit the 'quit mormon' stats page at

quit*mormon.com/stats (remove the *)

They submitted over 10,000 resignations, starting from February of this year, if I read another page correctly...

Roughly 5,000 were from Utah residents.

No doubt the church has interest in Africa.

Replace the word KOLOB with COBALT.

"Growth is cut by more than 50% - from 2.0% twenty years ago to 0.9% recently."

Nice way to start the new year.


Is this trend reversible? I don't see how.


Stretch goal for next year: growth declines to 0.5%

Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the church's yearly growth figure totally bogus if they don't show a factoring in of the number of resignations?

Do they tally deaths and remove the number of deceased mormons from the membership figure to which they add births and conversions (but not resignations), to get their growth figure?


But then we have to ask ourselves, why would the church lie, right?

LD$ Inc is scrambling to avoid the painful reality that their THE (MORmON) church is imploding, growth wise and financially, and that their implosion is ONLY going to be hastening in the future.

Hooray! But I feel so sad for the West Africans. Hungry children with swollen bellies--yet 10% will be demanded. They will receive very little in the way of welfare assistance. Why can't Mormons just go away and leave people alone? Others churches serve them rather than take the little they have for their children.

outside of the Zion Curtain. They'd probably think you meant either politics or football or some other important story from West Africa that "saved" 2017...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/west-africa-offered-many-reasons-to-be-cheerful-in-2017-gjtsgk3cb

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/world/africa/george-weah-liberia-election.html?_r=0



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