Lds Marking 30-Year Milestone

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Since 1978, when 19 Africans were baptized members of the LDS Church, more than 270,000 people on that continent have become Latter-day Saints, and the estimate of black membership worldwide is pegged at about 1 million.

Currently, Africa has 46 LDS stakes, 19 missions, 41 districts, 336 wards, 466 branches, three temples and two missionary training centers (in Ghana and South Africa.)

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Lds Marking 30-Year Milestone

Those numbers are not only cause for celebration, but they will likely grow in the future, according to Elder Sheldon F. Child, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, reflecting on what has happened to the face of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in three decade...

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