The missing membership...

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_Drifting
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The missing membership...

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http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/facts-and-statistics/

Europe 485,403
Oceania 482,783
Asia 1,024,218
Africa 359,130
Sth America 3,549,839
Nth America 8,521,430

Total: 14,422,803

Yet, on the same page, Total Church Membership = 14,441,346

Where are the other 18,543?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
_Drifting
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Re: The missing membership...

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We also have some missing congregations...

Europe 1,449
Oceania 1,144
Asia 1,885
Africa 1,054
South America 5,617
North America 17,506

Total 28,655

Yet for worldwide congregations the total is listed as 28,784.

Where are the missing 129 congregations?
(equivalent to circa 18 Stakes)
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
_Bret Ripley
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Re: The missing membership...

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Drifting wrote:Where are the other 18,543?
Oh, good grief: another lost tribe?
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