1. To minister to the needs of Church members worldwide, the Church has organized geographic Areas.
– First Church Areas formed: January 1984
– Church Areas today: 17 Areas outside North America (US & Canada), 6 Areas in North America
– European continent divided into 3 Areas: Europe Central, Europe North and Eurasia.
2. Europe Central Area presence:
– 33 countries: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and , Turkiye, Turkmenistan
– Church membership: 226.178
– Congregations: 692
– Meetinghouses: 661 (385 owned, 276 leased) in 36 countries/territories
– Missionaries
1.885 missionaries serving (about 40% young women)
18 missions
– Temples: 7 operating, 5 announced
Operating: Bern Switzerland, Frankfurt Germany, Freiberg Germany, Madrid Spain, Paris France, Rome Italy, The Hague Netherlands.
Announced: Barcelona Spain, Brussels Belgium, Budapest Hungary, Hamburg Germany, Vienna Austria
Others in Europe: Birmingham England (announced), Copenhagen Denmark, Helsinki Finland, Kyiv Ukraine, Lisbon Portugal, London England, Oslo Norway (announced), Praia Cape Verde, Preston England, Stockholm Seden (renovation).
3. Europe Central Area Office: Phoenix Haus, Frankfurt-Nieder-Eschbach.
– Brought together Area employees from 5 different facilities in and around Frankfurt.
– Two other companies currently occupy space in the building.
4. Europe Central Area workforce
– Number of employees, including those that work remotely: 650
– Number of employees who work in the Area Office: 264
– Number of volunteers who are part of the workforce: 75
– Employee languages: 35
5. Translation Services
– 31 European languages produced
– 16 language offices
– 90 employees and 200 contract workers located across Europe
– 54.915.210 words translated in 2022, 60.255.138 expected in 2023
– In one year, our German translators translate five Bibles worth of words.
– The Church’s semi-annual General Conference is broadcast live around the world.
96 languages are offered live (interpretation or subtitling)
50 languages are provided on site at the Conference.
All other languages are connected online. German is connected from this building.
6. Welfare & Self-Reliance
– 12 employees, 98 volunteers, in 35 countries
– Humanitarian Services
Church humanitarian work primarily helps those in need who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ. All Church humanitarian activities are made possible by generous donations of money, goods, and time from Church members and others.
Humanitarian projects over the last 5 years: 2.100
Number of beneficiaries of these projects: 7 million
US$ 13.5 million donated (funds & goods) to relief efforts in Türkiye during 2023
Sample project types: Refugee response, community response, food security, clean water, maternal care, mobility, vision care, emergency response, education, self-reliance training, addiction recovery.
– Self-Reliance Services
Small self-reliance groups combine practical skills with spiritual principles to help people help themselves. Each self-reliance group focuses on one of four topics: employment, education, small business, or personal finances.
Self-reliance groups in 2023: 1.944 participants in 233 groups
610 participants in 2023 in EnglishConnect, a course to develop basic English-speaking skills
560 participants in 2023 enrolled in BYU-Pathway, online university education
1.135 participants in 2023 in the Perpetual Education Fund, receiving education loans through the Church
7. Seminaries & Institutes
– Seminary is a four-year educational program for young men and women and is open to teenagers of all faiths. Students spend an entire school year studying one book of scripture: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants. Seminary instruction is available via in-person classes, videoconference, online, and hybrid home-study classes.
– 2.721 students are currently enrolled in Seminary, in 23 countries.
– Institutes of religion provide religious instruction for young adults between the ages of 18 and 30, single or married. The classes are open to young adults of all faiths. Institute students study topics such as scriptures, Church history, doctrine, and preparation for missions and marriage. There are currently 28 online Institute courses available, but local institute programs decide on their courses. Institute instruction is available via in-person classes, videoconference, online, and hybrid home-study classes.
– 3.466 students are enrolled in Institute.
– Seminary and Institute classes are available in 22 different languages.
8. Church History
–There are 5 Records Preservation Centers throughout Europe: England, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain, Ukraine.
– These centers hold over 1.500 collections which represent tens of thousands of pages.
–A team of Church History volunteer specialists located throughout Europe works with 50 countries where 30 languages are spoken.
– Church History specialists preserve records, documents, journals, letters, books, and other artifacts, while also collecting oral histories from key individuals.
· The online Church History Catalog (offered currently in 14 languages) contains over 500.000 collections. 40% of the material is already digital.
WORLDWIDE CHURCH FACTS AND STATISTICS
1) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formally organized in a small log cabin in upstate New York, USA, in 1830. It took 117 years (until 1947) for the Church to grow from the initial six members to one million. Current statistics:
– Total Church membership: 17.002.461
– Congregations: 31.330
– Published languages: 188
– Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is published in 115 languages.
2) Missionaries – The Church’s missionary program is one of its most recognized characteristics. Missionaries can be seen on the streets of hundreds of major cities in the world. Current statistics:
– Full-time teaching missionaries: 72.000
– Senior Church-service missionaries: 27.070
– Young Church-service missionaries: 2.736
-Number of missions worldwide: 416 currently with 36 new missions announced for 2024 totaling 452, the highest number ever.
3) Temples – Temples are not regular places of Sunday worship. They are considered houses of God – places of holiness and peace separate from the preoccupations of the world – where Church members make formal promises and commitments to God.
– Number of temples in operation, under construction or announced: 335 (180 operating).
4) Genealogy — Genealogy is more than learning about one’s family history for members of the Church. We believe families can be together after this life.
– Number of FamilySearch Centers: 5.704, in 146 countries
5) Humanitarian Services – The Church provides relief and development projects for humanitarian purposes in countries all over the world.
– Humanitarian Services 2022 Annual Report:
Number of projects: 3.692
Project expenditures: US$ 1.02 billion
Hours volunteered: 6.3 million hours
Countries and Territories receiving humanitarian aid: 190
6) Education – The Church emphasizes the importance of continued secular and spiritual education.
– Universities and Colleges: 4 (BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, Ensign College)
– Youth students enrolled: 405.024
– Adult students enrolled: 328.644
– There are approximately 350.000 seminary students worldwide.
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