New MIssion areas for 2025
Author: Vanessa Rooney
Vanessa is an Australian LDS lifestyle blogger. Landed in Salt Lake City, Utah, from the sun kissed beaches of Bondi, Vanessa is a wife and mother of three children.
With the global success of mission area expansions in 2024 the church has plans to expand their mission area again for 2025. 28 potential new missions in Latin America and the Caribbean, 14 in Africa, 14 in North America, nine in Europe, eight in Asia, and seven in Oceania. The potential new missions and areas include:
Africa
- Cote d’Ivoire Daloa (3-4 stakes, 2-3 districts)
- Gabon Libreville (1 district, 1 mission branch)
- Ghana Kumasi (second mission) (3 stakes, 2-3 districts)
- Liberia Monrovia (second mission) (3 stakes)
- Malawi Lilongwe (2 stakes)
- Mauritius and Reunion (2 districts)
- Nigeria Benin City (second mission) (4-5 stakes)
- Nigeria Eket (6-8 stakes)
- Nigeria Lagos (second mission) (4 stakes)
- Nigeria Makurdi (3 districts)
- Nigeria Warri (3 stakes, 3 districts)
- Senegal Dakar (1 district, several mission branches in neighboring countries)
- Sierra Leone Freetown (second mission) (3 stakes)
- Togo Lome (3 stakes)
Asia
- Georgia Tbilisi (2 mission branches)
- Korea Daejeon (4 stakes)
- Middle East/African North Service Mission (2 stakes, 3 districts)
- Philippines Ormoc (3 stakes, 4 districts)
- Philippines Palawan/Mindoro (1 stake, 4 districts)
- Sri Lanka Colombo (1 district)
- Thailand Ubon (1 stake, 1 district)
- Timor-Leste Dili (1 mission branch)
europe
- Austria Vienna (2 stakes)
- Belgium Brussels (2 stakes)
- France Paris (second mission) (3 stakes)
- France Toulouse (2 stakes)
- Germany Dรผsseldorf (2 stakes)
- Iceland Reykjavik (1 district)
- Ireland Dublin (2 stakes)
- Italy Palermo (1 stake)
- Spain Granada (5 stakes)
latin America AND THE CARIBBEAN
- Argentina Buenos Aires (fifth mission) (5-6 stakes)
- Argentina Posadas (2 stakes, 5 districts)
- Belize Belmopan (2 districts)
- Bolivia Riberalta (3 districts)
- Bolivia Tarija (4 stakes, 2 districts)
- Brazil Juazeiro do Norte (1 stake, 2 districts, 2 mission branches)
- Brazil Joinville (5 stakes)
- Brazil Novo Hamburgo (6 stakes, 1 district)
- Brazil Porto Velho (2 stakes)
- Brazil Sรฃo Luรญs (2 stakes, 1 district)
- Brazil Sรฃo Paulo (sixth mission) (4-5 million, ~7 stakes)
- Brazil Sorocaba (5 stakes, 2 districts)
- Colombia Bucaramanga (4 stakes)
- Cuba Havana (1 district)
- Ecuador Machala (4 stakes, 1 district)
- Mexico Acapulco (3 stakes, 1 district)
- Mexico Ciudad Obregรณn (3 stakes, 3 districts)
- Mexico Coatzacoalcos (3 stakes, 3 districts)
- Mexico Juchitรกn (3 stakes, 4 districts)
- Mexico Morelia (4 stakes, 1 district)
- Mexico Reynosa (5 stakes, 1 district)
- Mexico San Luis Potosรญ (3 stakes)
- Mexico Toluca (3 stakes)
- Panama Panama City (second mission) – (3-4 stakes, 1-3 districts)
- Peru Pisco (4 stakes, 2 districts)
- Peru Pucallpa (2 stakes)
- Peru Puno (3 stakes)
- Peru Tacna (5 stakes)
NORTH AMERICA
- Arizona Scottsdale (~10 stakes)
- Canada Toronto (second mission) (4 stakes)
- Colorado Grand Junction (5 stakes)
- Connecticut Hartford (5 stakes)
- Florida Orland (second mission) (5 stakes)
- Georgia Macon (5 stakes)
- Idaho Nampa (~20 stakes)
- Illinois Peoria (4 stakes)
- Missouri Springfield (5 stakes)
- North Carolina Raleigh (second mission) (6-7 stakes)
- Ohio Cleveland (5 stakes)
- Oklahoma Tulsa (5 stakes)
- Pennsylvania Harrisburg (6 stakes)
- Wyoming Casper (5 stakes)
Oceania
- Australia Brisbane (second mission)ย (~6 stakes)
- Australia Sydney (second mission) (~6 stakes)
- French Polynesia (second mission) (~5 stakes)
- Kiribati Tarawa (2 stakes, 3 districts)
- Papua New Guinea Daru (1 stake, 3 districts)
- Samoa (second mission) (~12 stakes)
- Solomon Islands Honiara (1 district)
What mission areas would you like to see the church expand into? Let us know in the comments below.