Missionary Training Centers Sister Bingham at new missionary training missionaries. It includes two new United Nations center in Accra, Ghana, and an buildings on a five-building campus, A expanded missionary training located adjacent to the Philippines Area peaking during a faith-based center in Provo, Utah, USA, demon- offices and across the street from the Spanel discussion about refugee strate the continuing importance of Manila Philippines Temple. Since the integration at the United Nations in missionary service. Philippines MTC opened in 1983, it has New York City on April 13, 2017, The recently finished Ghana MTC, served missionaries from, or going to, Relief Society General President next to the Accra Ghana Temple, 60 nations. Jean B. Bingham expressed hope accommodates 320 missionaries and The expansion at the Provo MTC that faith-based organizations “will has room to grow. The larger facility includes two new six-story buildings all work together through small and accommodates missionaries leaving with 200 new classrooms, more than simple means to accomplish extraor- from west and southeast Africa, as well 100 practice teaching rooms, and 13 dinary things.” as missionaries from around the world computer labs where missionaries During the annual “Focus on who have been called to serve in Africa. receive training before they are sent to Faith” briefing, Sister Bingham The new buildings make it easier for their assigned areas around the world. discussed the Church’s humanitarian missionaries to learn in their native The Provo MTC has the capacity to efforts with refugees and expressed language—English or French—and train as many as 3,700 young men, sincere appreciation to all who are learn the language and culture of the young women, and senior missionaries engaged in the “challenging but area where they have been assigned at a time. deeply rewarding work” of relieving to labor. The Church has 15 missionary suffering throughout the world. The expansion of the Philippines training centers at various locations Sister Bingham had recently MTC doubles its capacity to 280 worldwide. ◼ returned from a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) field visit to Uganda with Sister Sharon Eubank, First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency and director of LDS Charities. Sister Eubank also attended the U.N. meeting in New York City. ◼ For more information about what you can do to help refugees, go to IWasAStranger.lds.org. Read the transcript of Sister Binhgam’s address at mormonnewsroom.org/article/ sister-bingham-united-nations- transcript. An instructor at the new Ghana Missionary Training Center listens as missionaries discuss how to teach the gospel. NOVEMBER 2017 133.