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Sorry if this has been posted already!

I just received this from a loyal JW.

2002 District Convention Theme: "Zealous Kingdom
Proclaimers"

The January 8, 2002 Awake! will discuss the
September 11 tragedy, and
among other thing explains what Jehovah's Witnesses
have been doing to help
the survivors, the emergency workers and the bereaved.

2003 Memorial Wednesday, April 16.

2001 Service Year World Report from Service
Committee
Opening Scriptures:
1 Thessalonians 2:4:

But, just as we have been proved by God as fit to
be entrusted with the
good news, so we speak, as pleasing, not men, but God,
who makes proof of
your hearts

Psalms 96:2:
Sing to Jehovah, bless his name. From day to day
tell the good news of
salvation by him.

Colossians 1:5,6:

Because of the hope that is being reserved for YOU
in the heavens. This
[hope] YOU heard of before by the telling of the truth
of that good news
which has presented itself to YOU, even as it is
bearing fruit and
increasing in all the world just as [it is doing] also
among YOU, from the
day YOU heard and accurately knew the undeserved
kindness of God in truth.

Report:

235 Lands
111 Branches
5,881,776 Avg. Publ. (1.7% increase over previous
year)
6,117,666 Peak Publ. (1.4% increase over previous
year)

21,045,548 Books

> > > 66,111,852 Booklets, Magazines, etc. (2.1%
> increase over previous year)
> > >
> > > 87,157,400 Total Printed Materials (2.1% increase)
> > >
> > > 434,964,611 Return Visits (0.3% increase over
> previous year)
> > >
> > > 4,921,702 Bible Studies (3..3% increase over
> previous year)
> > >
> > > 1,169,082,225 Hours - average 3.2 million hours/day
> > >
> > >
> > > Hebrews 13:15,16:
> > >
> > > Through him let us always offer to God a sacrifice
> of praise, that is,
> > >the fruit of lips which make public declaration to his
> name. Moreover, do
> > >not forget the doing of good and the sharing of things
> with others, for
> > >with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 15,374,986 Memorial (3.4% or 1/2 million increase
> over previous year)
> > >
> > >
> > > 18,383 Special Pioneers (2.5% increase over
> previous year)
> > >
> > > 787,439 Combined all Pioneers
> > >
> > > 263,431 Baptized, average 5000 per week
> > >
> > > 93,154 Congregations (1.8% increase over previous
> year)
> > >
> > > 1,664 new congregations (32 new congregations per
> week average)
> > >
> > >
> > > 1 Corinthians 3:6,7
> > >
> > > I planted, Apol'los watered, but God kept making
> [it] grow; so that
> > >neither is he that plants anything nor is he that
> waters, but God who makes
> > >[it] grow.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maldovia has grown to 38 congregations in 11 years.
> > >
> > >
> > > The former 15 Republics of the Soviet Union
> presently have 298,047
> > >publishers and an increase at the Memorial from 75,849
> in 1990 to 728,049
> > >in 2000.

Rex B13

15 million still running in fear of God and know not of the love of Christ.
Rex

Skimmer

I might point out that the percentage increase in the average publisher count is the lowest in at least fourteen years.

It must be the demons infesting the Internet.

GermanXJW

> > > 66,111,852 Booklets, Magazines, etc.

The Watchtower states: Average Printing Each Issue 23,042,000, Awake! 20,682,000.

Mybe this are the magazines printed in Brooklyn alone?

Simon

The large increas in memorial attendance is all the ones who have left gogin back to see their old friends / family etc... and give themselves a remind themselves why they dno't go.

zev

i'm sure a bethelite would point this out....

magazines are printed in walkill ny

as well as at other branches throughout the world.

they are not printed in brooklyn.

and those figures seem right to me for a worldwide circulation.

but hey......no one asked me right?

-Zev
We're on a roll!
Can you say...Squirm?

GermanXJW

>and those figures seem right to me for a worldwide circulation.

What you mean? If the WT-impressum states "Average Printing Each Issue 23,042,000" than it's 276'504'000 WT a year isn't it?

GermanXJW

Oh since it's semimonthly it's more than half a billion!

Or am I wrong onthat

Thirdson

I haven't seen the figures and until they are published on line by the WTS I can't add them to my spreadsheet. It is interesting because the figures quoted here from the loyal dub are the best news.

Yet 263431 baptized is down 9% on last year and 19% on the 1999 service year.

It took 4438 hours of preaching to make a baptized convert. The average JW is doing 16.6 hours per month (includes pioneers) so it takes on average 22 years for the average JW to make a convert.

At 22 years each it would appear that children are the main source of baptized converts.

Thirdson

'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

Thirdson

One other thing. The peak publishers (the most contrived figure by the WTS and good for manipulating the best high figure) increased by 82,102 on the last service year. In that time 263,000 converts were made.

That means 181,000 are missing from the ranks.

Thirdson

'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

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