Missionary Training Center (Provo, Utah)
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1978-
Administrative History
The Missionary Training Center (1978- ) in Provo serves to train missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before they depart to their specific assignments.
The Missionary Training Center began operation in 1978 to replace the Language Training Mission. The campus can house up to 4,000 missionaries at a time. Approximately fifty languages are taught at the MTC by staff composed mostly of returned missionaries.
Citation:
Missionary vocabulary & phrases, 2006: t.p. (Missionary Training Center) found: Google website, 2007-08-23 (Missionary Training Center; hdqts.: Provo, Utah; also MTC)Navajo dictionary for missionaries, 1979: t.p. (Missionary Training Center) verso t.p. (c[opyright] Brigham Young University)
Wikipedia, Apr. 20, 2012 (Missionary Training Center; Missionary Training Centers (MTCs) are centers devoted to training missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah, adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University, a private university owned and operated by the church)
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 1992: p. 913 (completed in 1978; replaced Language Training Mission)
Missionary Training Center, via WWW, Aug. 27, 2014 (About the MTC; houses up to 4000 missionaries; approximately 50 languages taught; staff composed mostly of returned missionaries; trains missionaries)
Found in 88 Collections and/or Records:
Brigham Young University photographs of the Missionary Training Center, date of production not identified
File — Box 9: [Barcode: 31197225505418], Folder: 15
Identifier: UA 827 File 44
Dates:
date of production not identified
Don M. Christiansen photographs of the Missionary Training Center
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239243543]
Identifier: MSS 9091
Scope and Contents
Contains digital photographs that document the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Missionary Training Center buildings, facilities, and construction for the new building taken by Don M. Christiansen during his employment there. Pictures and recordings were taken in Provo, Utah from 2007-2017. Also includes video recordings of the 2017 open house. 16,110 digital image and audio files (34.8 GB).
Dates:
2007-2017
Mary Ellen Edmunds papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7643
Scope and Contents
Contains personal and professional papers of Edmunds, including resources from her work at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, especially training in foreign languages and instruction of senior missionaries. Some materials deal with human services missions in countries such as India and Ghana. Collection also contains work from Edmunds' work on the Relief Society General Board, including teaching manuals, cards, and correspondence between various members of the Board. Also...
Dates:
approximately 1971-2015
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ephraim Hatch bound volumes, 1875-1975
Series
Identifier: UA 923 Series 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains various photos.
Dates:
Other: 1875-1975
Ephraim Hatch collection of university building histories, 1974-1985
Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 923 Series 1 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains bound volumes of photographs and information of the different physical plants and campus buildings.
Dates:
1974-1985
Ephraim Hatch drafts for A History of the Brigham Young University Campus and the Department of Physical Plant, approximately 1975
Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 923 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains bound volumes of photographs of the univeristy campus and its development during the presidencies of various university presidents. Volumes assembled in approximately 1975.
Dates:
approximately 1975
Ephraim Hatch loose images, 1971-1988
Series
Identifier: UA 923 Series 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains various photos and negatives of buildings, sculptures and other architectual focuses of BYU campuses and surrounding Provo area.
Dates:
Other: 1971-1988
General Services photographs and negatives, approximately 1957-1999
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 5595 Series 8
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs and corresponding negatives of various buildings on campus and activities related to Food Services. Includes photographs of the cafeterias, concessions, vending, and Food Services administration. Also contains negatives and corresponding contact sheets for photographs of catering, food displays, and various events, approximately 1957-1984.
Additional materials were added in April 2017, including photographs from Halloween, construction and other campus events,...
Dates:
approximately 1957-1999
General Services slides of landscapes, approximately 1970-1979
Series — Carton 2: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197233601779], Folder: 11
Identifier: UA 5595 Series 6
Scope and Contents
Contains slides of various landscapes and student activities such as biking and hiking, circa 1970-1979.
Dates:
approximately 1970-1979
Ephraim Hatch collection on Brigham Young University campus development
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 923
Scope and Contents
Contains pictorial histories of building construction at Brigham Young University, 1875-1975, arranged chronologically by university president; pictorial survey of BYU Physical Plant Dept., 1974; pictorial histories of individual campus structures built and remodeled during 1970s and early 1980s; and photographs, slides, and negatives of campus buildings and personnel, and other schools operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes views of construction of Provo and...
Dates:
approximately 1974-1991
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 79
- Collection 9
- Subject
- Colleges and Universities 63
- Education 63
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 58
- Provo (Utah) 58
- Handbooks and manuals 57
- Missions and Missionaries 57
- Church Educational System 56
- DVDs 56
- Designs and plans 56
- Missionaries -- Training of 56
- Photographs 12
- Accreditation (Education) -- Utah 10
- Awards 10
- Financial records 10
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty 10
- Negatives 7
- Slides (Photography) 6
- Latter Day Saint temples 5
- Photograph albums 4
- Audiotapes 3
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Training of 3
- Buildings -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 2
- College campuses -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 2
- Evangelistic work -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2
- Home and Family 2
- Social Life and Customs 2
- Universities and colleges -- Food service -- Photographs 2
- Aerial photographs 1
- Architecture -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Boy Scouts -- Paraguay 1
- Boy Scouts -- Uruguay 1
- Caterers and catering -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- Christian leadership -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
- Church officers -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
- College buildings -- Utah -- Provo 1
- College buildings -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- College campuses 1
- College students -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- Cycling -- Utah -- Photographs 1
- Dedication services -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Digital images 1
- Facility management -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Food service -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- Funding 1
- Halloween -- Photographs 1
- Hiking -- Utah -- Photographs 1
- Landscapes -- Utah -- Photographs 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- Ghana 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- India 1
- Latter Day Saint missionaries 1
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Uruguay 1
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- Latter Day Saint women missionaries 1
- Letters 1
- Oral histories 1
- Performing arts -- Utah -- Provo -- Photographs 1
- Provo (Utah) -- Photographs 1
- Relief Society 1
- Reports 1
- Safford (Ariz.) 1
- Scouting (Youth activity) 1
- Scouts (Youth organization members) 1
- Specifications 1
- Universities and colleges -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Utah Valley (Utah) -- Photographs 1 + ∧ less
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