Statistical Report, 2009

Presented by Brook P. Hales
Secretary to the First Presidency

Brook P. Hales
The First Presidency has issued the following statistical report of the Church as of December 31, 2009.
Church Units  
   Stakes 2,865 
   Missions 344 
   Districts 616 
   Wards and Branches 28,424 
   
Church Membership  
   Total Church Membership 13,824,854
   New Children of Record during 2009 119,722 
   Converts Baptized during 2009 280,106 
   
Missionaries  
   Number of Full-Time Missionaries 51,736
   
Temples  
   Temples Dedicated during 2009
   (Draper Utah and Oquirrh Mountain Utah)
2   
   Temples in Operation 130 


Former General Church Officers and Other Prominent Church Members Who Have Passed Away since Last April

Elder Royden G. Derrick, an emeritus General Authority; Elders George I. Cannon, W. Don Ladd, Douglas J. Martin, and Joseph B. Muren, former members of the Seventy; Sister Colleen W. Asay, widow of Elder Carlos E. Asay, an emeritus General Authority; Sister Jeanne C. Dunn, widow of Elder Paul H. Dunn, an emeritus General Authority; Sister Jelaire C. Simpson, widow of Elder Robert L. Simpson, an emeritus General Authority; Sister Jacqueline Y. Lawrence, wife of Elder W. Mack Lawrence, a former member of the Seventy; Sister Betty N. Turley, wife of Elder Richard E. Turley Sr., a former member of the Seventy; Brother David S. King, former assistant in the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association general superintendency; Sister Ann S. Reese, former counselor in the Relief Society general presidency; Brother Robert J. Matthews, an authority on the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible; and Brother Truman Madsen, Church scholar and former director of the BYU Jerusalem Center. © 2010 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.