LDS Church launches new website to recruit senior missionaries

(KUTV) -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a new website to recruit senior missionaries and help them find opportunities to serve.

Seniormissionary.lds.org is designed to be easy to use and cater to the lifestyle and preferences of older people. It is an interactive platform that allows members to compile an online wish list of service opportunities.

Church leaders will be able to making appropriate assignments for individuals and couples based on the opportunities noted on the wish lists.

However, ultimately, the call to serve a full-time mission comes from a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

This site is part of an effort by the Church to better utilize technology in missionary work.

“The website that we've created is a wonderful thing for us because we've taken all of the departments in the Church that need senior missionaries and who have been recruiting senior missionaries, and we've brought them all together on one website,” said Elder Brent H. Nielson, executive director of the Missionary Department, in a news release.

For those unable to leave home to serve as full-time missionaries, opportunities for part-time and full-time Church-service missions are also listed on the website, the release stated.

Missionaries serve voluntarily and at their own expense. Opportunities for service include humanitarian work, family history, teaching, leadership training, public affairs, health and education and other areas, the release said.