14 million Mormons and counting (July 2010)

deseretnews.com/article/14-million-Mormons. ( Sunday, Jan. 23 )  The LDS Church is ahead of Rodney Stark's growth forecast, a sociologist at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a private Baptist university, who made that prediction in 1984. He predicted the LDS church would grow from 5.5 Million back in 1984 to between 64 and 267 Million members by 2080.  26 years after his prediction, the church is on target, DOUBLING EVERY 16-19 years for past 180 years.  I can make a more narrow prediction for 2080, the LDS church should have between 95 and 125 Million members, hitting 20 Million in 2025 and 50 million by 2055.  (note: we don't count 0-8 year olds, since there are too young to be baptized, having not reach the age of accountability - knowing right from wrong.  If we counted them, we would be well over 15 million.)

New Stakes created in Venezuela and Guam listed

A new stake has been created from the Guam District. The Barrigada Guam Stake, has been created by Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve.  Guam's first as reported below.  A new stake has also been created in Venezuela - the San Francisco Venezuela Stake. This is Venezuela's 29 or 30th stake, it's second this year. The Church now has about 2,898 stakes, with 1,430 abroad, still slightly less then 50%

www.ldschurchnews.com/New-stake-presidents

Brazil, Brazil, Brazil - 3 New Stakes in Northern Brazil (Belem area)

The Church created 3 more stakes in Brazil. That is 5 new stakes in the last 4 weeks just in Brazil. The 3 new stakes announced this week are all up north in the Amazon delta. www.ldschurchnews.com/New-stake-presidents. 7 new stakes year-to-date.  Brazil now has 240 stakes, of the 2,901 total stakes worldwide.

3 New Stakes Created, 2 in Brazil, 1 in Philippines

New stakes (Church News) That makes 238 Stakes for Brazil and 81 in the Philippines.  The church has created 24 Stakes in 2010, with 13 in the US and 11 abroad. The Paniqui Philippines stake is in the North and the both Brazilian stakes are near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Elder Perry Establishes First Stake in Guam

Elder Perry Establishes First Stake in Guam, Guam joins Uganda in the list of countries that opened their first stake in 2010. In 2009, Marshall Islands, Mongolia and Trinidad and Tobago all had their first stake created.  This makes 71 countries with at least one stake and 2,893 stakes worldwide.  Barrigada Guam is the 20th new stake created this year and the 7th outside of the United States in 2010.

Video: LDS Church growth by stake (1830 - 2009)

New Stake created in North Carolina

North Carolina now has 16 stakes, passing Hawaii and Georgia, which have 15 and is now tied with Wyoming.  This is the 13th new stake created in the United States in 2010. The Church's new web site updates Stakes and other statistics right away at https://cdol.lds.org (you need to log in).  The Church News also reports each new stake under "Recent Callings" http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/60231/New-stake-presidents.html
Here is the location of the High Point, NC stake: