Senior Missionary Opportunities*
Finding Places for Church Members to Serve as Full-Time, Away-from-Home Senior Missionaries or as Part-Time, Live-at-Home Senior Service Missionaries |
You should plan to serve a mission when you are a “senior”. For full-time “Senior Missionaries” a “senior” is at least 40 years old. For at-home “Senior Service Missionaries” a “senior” is at least 26 years old. You should not wait for your Bishop or Stake President to ask you to serve. To be a missionary, you need a desire to serve, a love of God, a love of people, and a Temple Recommend.
Senior Missionary Full-Time, Away-from-Home |
Senior Service Missionary Part-Time, Live-at-Home |
“If you have the finances, health, and family support to allow it, please consider a full-time mission. Thousands of full-time opportunities are available and are the greatest priority.”
To explore Senior Missionary opportunities, see Section II of this page. †Discuss possible funding options with your priesthood leaders. ‡Some missionary opportunities can be adapted to health conditions, including disabilities. |
To explore Senior Service Missionary opportunities, see Section III of this page. ‡Some missionary opportunities can be adapted to health conditions, including disabilities. |
Senior Service Missionaries generally live at home, work 8 to 40 hours per week, and serve in their local area or serve remotely (online) for 6–24 months. Service missionaries can be single, married, and any age over 26. A service mission is an alternative to a full-time mission and is available to those who may be still employed or have other commitments that prohibit a full-time mission.
Bishops’ Storehouse | Deseret Industries |
FamilySearch (in-person and online) | BYU-Pathway (in-person and online) |
Military Relations (Air Force Bases) | Institute |
Community Service | Welcome Centers | Employment Resource Center |
Family Services | Addiction Recovery | Mission Office |
Transitional Services | Temple Office |
The North America Southwest Area is divided into ten Senior Service Missionary Groups, each of which has Senior Missionary Coordinators, who help promote and facilitate missionary work among senior Church members. If you are not sure who are the Senior Missionary Coordinators for you, please send an email message to any of those on the list with the name of your stake, and you will receive a reply indicating whom you should contact. If your stake has one or more Stake Senior Missionary Specialists, you will learn that, too.
Start planning your mission. If family circumstances, physical health, and finances permit, please consider a full-time, away-from-home Senior Mission. If not, please consider a live-at-home, part-time Senior Service Mission. Set up a planning schedule so that you can be ready as soon as possible. Let your Stake Senior Missionary Specialist or Senior Missionary Coordinators help you find the right missionary opportunity for you. WE NEED YOU!
*Not an official page of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Updated
July 23, 2024