1988
Update: Missionaries Now Serving
July 1988


“Update: Missionaries Now Serving,” Ensign, July 1988, 79

Update: Missionaries Now Serving

The number of full-time missionaries serving worldwide at the end of 1987 was a record 34,750—an increase of 7,900, or 29 percent, from the 26,850 missionaries serving at the end of 1983.

Year

Number of Missionaries

1983

26,850

1984

27,392

1985

29,265

1986

31,803

1987

34,750