-800 Units in Europe

[no1saint]

Just bumping this thread. Are there any updates on closures?

With only 1,444 units in Europe, closing 800 would be devastating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Churc ... ics#Europe

http://ldsunitgrowth.blogspot.com/2017/

According to the website above, so far in 2017 (as of July 17th) these countries have lost this number of units:

Netherlands: -7
Belgium: -6
England: -3
Ireland: -1
Germany: -2
Spain: -2
Portugal: -3

So that is 24 units closed that I have found. Some countries I checked had no changes.

I don't want to disparage the original poster considering he lives in Europe, but 800 seems awfully large. Perhaps there are 800 drastically underperforming. Then again, look at what has happened in Chile, this could be a slow burn reduction over 10 years.

[oliblish]

http://ldsunitgrowth.blogspot.com/2017/

According to the website above, so far in 2017 (as of July 17th) these countries have lost this number of units:

Netherlands: -7
Belgium: -6
England: -3
Ireland: -1
Germany: -2
Spain: -2
Portugal: -3

So that is 24 units closed that I have found. Some countries I checked had no changes.

I don't want to disparage the original poster considering he lives in Europe, but 800 seems awfully large. Perhaps there are 800 drastically underperforming. Then again, look at what has happened in Chile, this could be a slow burn reduction over 10 years.

I believe it was clarified later that the 800 number was the number of units affected, not the number of units closed. Much of this will be consolidation of units. So maybe 7 wards will be consolidated down to 5 wards in one area. So 7 wards are affected but only 2 shut down.

The Netherlands and Belgium appear to be hit the hardest. Ant this is where the original poster is from.

[no1saint]

http://ldsunitgrowth.blogspot.com/2017/

According to the website above, so far in 2017 (as of July 17th) these countries have lost this number of units:

Netherlands: -7
Belgium: -6
England: -3
Ireland: -1
Germany: -2
Spain: -2
Portugal: -3

So that is 24 units closed that I have found. Some countries I checked had no changes.

I don't want to disparage the original poster considering he lives in Europe, but 800 seems awfully large. Perhaps there are 800 drastically underperforming. Then again, look at what has happened in Chile, this could be a slow burn reduction over 10 years.

I believe it was clarified later that the 800 number was the number of units affected, not the number of units closed. Much of this will be consolidation of units. So maybe 7 wards will be consolidated down to 5 wards in one area. So 7 wards are affected but only 2 shut down.

The Netherlands and Belgium appear to be hit the hardest. Ant this is where the original poster is from.

That makes more sense. You would see that type of trend here in Australia and New Zealand if it wasn't for the large Pacific Peoples population that have shifted here in the past 10 years.

[Journey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... nt/dkyilt2

Not sure if the link works, but here's an update from Meilingkie:

Dutch implosion... 30% of units shutting this year.
u/kristmace
If any of you are part of the Mormon Stories FB group, there's an excellent post there today about major announcements of unit closures in Netherlands and Dutch speaking Belgium. Here's the summary.

At the start of 2017 there were 46 Dutch speaking units.

3 have shut already this year
6 more closures were announced today
2 units are set to close in May
3 more closures heavily rumoured (The OP says he has a very good source on this).
14 out of 46 is 30%. This is a staggering implosion. Happy Easter guys!

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Meilingkie • 10d
Hello, here an update. The mergers happened. Now 3 months later most of the new combined units are back at thhe size they were before the mergers. Result: a net outflow of members.

Myself: in the podcast I still selfidentified as an active member. Not anymore, we as a family have put the Church at a solid distance. I'm attending a evangelicak Church myself on some sundays.