Posted on 05/13/2014 3:33:43 AM PDT by chajin
Two thirds of active missionaries are married couples. Another third are single women. The rest are single men.
This is not exactly a statistic, per se. Its a sentiment, and sometimes a joke, expressed by mission leaders, mission recruiters, and most recently, by a bunch of twenty-something singles in my living room. It is a sentiment that reveals a striking truth about missionary work today: There are very few single men choosing to go.
The real statistic is this: For AIM and other similar organizations, somewhere between 80 and 85 percent of all single missionaries are women. For every 10 singles sent, only 2 are men. The disparity is great enough that theres a noticeable gap on many mission fields. The men are missing, and a cadre of single women have taken up the work, sometimes doing jobs that a male presence would be better suited to.
Why is there such a difference between men and women who choose missions in their single years? And does it matter?...
(Excerpt) Read more at next-mission.com ...
The Powers that Be that reside in SLC should worry less about the Sales personel of their Organization; and more about the Customers of their product. Because another statistic says:
Only about 15% or so of all MORMONs will ever make it to the highest level of the afterlife.
This is where Mormonism might have an impact: places that do not, as yet, have widespread access to the WEB and all of the information that is available on it.
Must be?
They played BASKETBALL back then??
AFTERLIFE: The Mormon afterlife is divided up into four levels. From the lowest to the highest they are: hell, and then three levels of heaven: the telestial, the terrestrial, and the place where God dwells, the celestial (also called the kingdom of God). The celestial is also divided, the highest level being "exaltation," or becoming a God. CELESTIAL KINGDOM: See Heaven. EXALTATION: This is becoming a God in the highest level of the celestial kingdom. ETERNAL PROGRESSION: The teaching that each of us has the potential to become a God just like God the Father did. He was once a man capable of physical death, was resurrected and progressed to become a God. We can take a similar path and get all the power, glory, dominion, and knowledge the Father and Jesus Christ has. We then will be able to procreate spirit children who will worship us as we do God the Father. GOD: Usually means God the Father. He was once a man like us capable of physical death and he progressed until he became a God. He has a body of flesh and bones, but no blood. Within Mormonism, Gods, angels, people and devils all have the same nature or substance but are at different stages along the line of progression to Godhood. GRACE - The Mormon concept of grace means making oneself worthy of the grace of God by doing good works in the church, temple, and community. HEAVEN-The Mormon church teaches there are three levels of heaven (three "degrees of glory"):
HELL: A place of torment from which the worst of sinners are resurrected (if they repent) into the Telestial kingdom; only a limited number remain in hell forever, - the devil and the demons and apostates who consciously reject and work against Mormonism. SALVATION: A word that Mormons qualify in one of three ways: unconditional or general salvation is simply resurrection from the dead, granted to all through Christ's atonement; conditional or individual salvation involves entering the celestial kingdom through works of Mormonism; full salvation means exaltation to become a God as a result of temple ceremonies and other works. The word 'salvation' can have a two-fold meaning: a) forgiveness of sins and b) universal resurrection:
The Mormons have several different levels of "salvation".
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