The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints updates its latest membership numbers.
Members fill the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City for General Conference on Saturday, April 6, 2024.A surge in convert baptisms and new “children of record” helped The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continue its post-pandemic roll, resulting in increases in key areas that mirror pre-COVID levels.the global faith released Saturday during its 194th Annual General Conference. That’s a roughly 1.49% bump from the 17,002,461 recorded the previous year.
Chief among them, Martinich noted in an interview via text messages, are the 251,763 converts added to the membership rolls, an 18.65% leap from 2022 and the highest number since 2015. Moreover, convert baptisms in 2023 nearly doubled the 125,930 tallied during the height of the pandemic in 2020., these numbers “remain tens of thousands below the all-time highs of convert baptisms reached in the late 1980s and the 1990s, when there were several years of more than 300,000 converts.
Another plus Martinich identified from the faith’s latest stats: the number of Latter-day Saints removed from church records — either through death, resignation, loss of membership or children not being baptized by age 9 — fell to 92,424, nearly a decade low.Attending the temple, which President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the governing First Presidency, and church apostle Ulisses Soares extolled in the conference’s, became easier in 2023.
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