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Six New Missions to Begin July 1, 1989

“Six New Missions to Begin July 1,” Ensign, May 1989, 102–3

The First Presidency has announced the organization of six new missions, effective July 1, bringing the number of missions in the Church to 228.

The new missions are: Philippines Naga, Mexico Queretaro, Panama Panama City, France Bordeaux, Texas McAllen, and German Democratic Republic Dresden. The Dresden mission is the first to be created in the German Democratic Republic; the Queretaro mission is Mexico’s fifteenth.

Growth in missionary work continues worldwide. More than 36,000 full-time missionaries are currently serving; more than 10,000 come from countries outside the United States and Canada. At the end of 1988, there were 1,296 couples and 6,345 sister missionaries serving missions.

The Philippines Naga Mission is to be created from a division of the Philippines Cebu Mission. The Naga mission will have 9,000 members in the Legaspi and Naga stakes and the Daet, Lopez, and Sorsogon districts. The mission area has some 4.6 million people.

The Cebu mission will have 11,000 members in the Cebu City and Cebu City South stakes and the Calbayog, Catarman, Ormoc, Tacloban, and Tagbilaran districts. The mission area includes 3 million people.