LDS: Latter Day Saints
LFS: Sisters of the Little Flower of Child Jesus
MC: Missionaries of Charity
MEISP: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
MIA: Mutual Improvement Association
MIS: Membership Information System
MMS: Medical Mission Sisters
MP: Melchizedek Priesthood
MP: Mission President
MPAC: Muslim Public Affairs Council
MPAJ: Muslim Public Affairs Journal

MTC: Missionary Training Center
MW: Muslim World
NETS: New English Translation of the Septuagint
OD1: Official Declaration #1
OD2: Official Declaration #2
OFM: Order of Friars Minor
OIC: Organisation of the Islamic Conference
OIC: Organization of the Islamic Conference

OLG: Sisters of Our Lady of the Garden
OSA: Augustinian Sisters
PBO: Presiding Bishop's Office.
PEC: Priesthood Executive Council
PEIA: Prosopography of Early Islamic Administration
PH: Priesthood
PHJC: Sisters of Poor Handmaids of Jesus

PPI: Personal Priesthood Interview
RJM: Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
RLDS: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
RM: Returned Missionary
RS: Relief Society
SA: Single Adults
SA: Sisters of St. Anne of Providence
SABS: Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
SAC: Society of the Catholic Apostolate
SAT: Congregation of the Sisters of St Anne of Thiruchirapally
SBLCS: Society of Biblical Literature Commentary on the Septuagint
SCCG: Sisters of Maria Bambina
SCJS: Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
SCSC: Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross