in october 2015, he was sustained as an apostle and member of the quorum of the twelve. as an apostle, he is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer and revelator. he was sustained to the quorum of the twelve along with ronald a. rasband and dale g. renlund, filling vacancies created by the 2015 deaths of l. tom perry, boyd k. packer and richard g. scott. this was the first time since 1906 that three new apostles were sustained. they are the 98th, 99th and 100th members of the quorum of the twelve apostles in the church's history. stevenson is currently assigned over the church's southeast africa area, comprising the countries of uganda, rwanda, kenya, zimbabwe, south africa, madagascar and seychelles.