For the purposes of this analysis, it is assumed that there were no senior missionaries … MTCs won’t admit new missionaries until LDS leadership is quite confident there won’t be a cluster outbreak in one of them. (USCWM, Mission Frontiers, 2001) There are 78,000 Evangelical Christians for every one unreached people group. This has been a common practice throughout history. In ministries, there are 4.19 million full-time Christian workers and 95% are working within the Christian world. Mormon missionaries are ‘dying,‘ ‘killing’ and getting ‘pregnant,’ but it’s not what you think. The earliest known references to senior missionaries date to the late 1970's. Many of the missionaries entering the field are senior couple missionaries. That’s despite having many more missionaries out. In 2009 there were 280,106 converts. accountability for missionaries serving in the United States and Canada. Thus the efficiency of missionaries simply is low because we have more missionaries than there’s work for. There are 104 missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) in the United States and 346 total missions worldwide. The same reasoning applies to LDS missionary program changes. The dates include milestones in the Young Women program, a historic site in northern Utah, the first temple built outside the continental United States, and significant moments in the history of missionary work. Today, faithful adult members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wear temple garments. If you count all denominations, including Catholic, Mormon, Baptist, etc., then there are dozens of missionaries in Australia. More than 4,000 Southern Baptist chaplains serve in the U.S. military, in state and federal prisons, hospice, hospitals, disaster relief, as volunteers and in many other settings around the world. NAMB supports 5,097 missionaries and students in varying ministry categories. In our world of diverse religious observance, many people of faith wear special clothing as a reminder of sacred beliefs and commitments. Now one theory is that there is only so many people ready to hear the gospel at a time. Full Story Between 1974 and 1975 there was a sudden increase in new missionaries entering the field of 47%, and the numbers remained high thereafter. The 175th Anniversary of Joseph and Hyrum Smith’s Martyrdom Is One of Many Notable Dates in 2019 Posted: 14 February 2019. In 2018 there were only 234,332. It’s how they talk. [original source, Frontier Harvest Ministries, 2007] There are 900 churches for every one unreached people group.