I wonder how many Witnesses will ask "why have they changed the name of the PO?" My guess is that they're doing this in stages to perhaps try to lessen the blow. If they are indeed getting rid of the CO's position, it would probably be too much of a shock for the R&F to hear that all this at once...
Looking at the July Service Report, I did some figuring that reveals how utterly useless the 'house to house' method of preaching is:
In the USA, they spent about 17,794,186 hours "preaching" and for their efforts, there were only 7,507 baptised. At least half of these would be kids who were born and raised in the Troof, so only about 3,753 were actual recruits. That means that in order to get ONE lousy baptism, there was an average of 4,741 hours spent-----which is equal to 91 years if the study was 1 hour each week. Ya----I can see why they'd want to use the house to house method of preaching with figures like this.
And what's with those slackers in Bermuda and the Turks & Caicos Islands?!! Neither the Pioneers or even the Auxillary Pioneers are making the hourly requirements......Don't the realize that they're bringing shame on Jehovah's Organization by pursuing non-spiritual goals like obtaining food, clothing and shelter, instead of getting their hours in? What's the world coming to?