Local Needs: Low Hours (page 3)

dropoffyourkeylee

Here is the hours breakdown posted in the local hall (US, Midwest, semi-rural area) for August, 2011

130 total pubs of whom:

10 reg pioneers

3 Aux pioneers

10 no report this month (good for you! Keep up the good work)

35 report 1-5 hours

35 report 5-9 hours

37 report 10+ hours

Of the 130, 21 are irregular.

The average for the month of August for the non-pioneer publishers was 9.1 hours (slightly higher than the 8.3 hours 3-month average for the same group).

Inactives don't show up at all in these figures.

There you go, the 1/3 1/3 1/3 assessment seems to accurately describe this congregation.

NewChapter

You'll see it drop tomorrow in the UK. LOL Can you imagine working in service the day after that article came out? I wouldn't want to do it.

But it's delicious---because we know what the householder's first question will be---"Do you really shun your children when they walk away from your church????"

LOL!

DROPOFFYOURKEYLEE - Wow, those numbers are telling. Has it always been that way, or is that a new trend? Here in 'Bethel Territory' there was NEVER 1/3 of the cong. getting 4 hrs, less than 5% I would say.

NEWCHAPTER - yeah, service should be a blast in the UK! Starbucks will be packed!

nugget

4 hours means that those with children are barely doing the family study and are not going door to door as well. In our area I have not seen witnesses out in service for months. It may be that I have missed them on the territory but my home is on another congregations territory and I haven't seen any witnesses for over a year.

The zeal of many has cooled off. Ministry is hard thankless work and with winter approaching it becomes harder to get motivated.

Good for them if it wasn't for the feelings of guilt that innevitably accompany poor hours I would be happy for them.

FreeAtLast1914

The Pioneer Shuffle comment had me rolling!

It reminded me of when I was young and out in rural field service with a Pioneer. He just kept driving around, seemingly in circles. So I asked him what the plan was. His response: "I'm getting a feel for the territory's borders. That way when we hit it, we'll go all-out."

Even at 15-years-old, I was like:

Still, I loved that fact that I didn't have to talk to anyone that day and still bagged three hours! After that I generally tried to wedge myself into his group.

lastchance

the org is dying from the inside out. i was just talking to a sister from a new york city cong. she has been in for about 22 yrs. (a real zealous type) she asks the question to me (it seemed out of real concern) almost crying "were are the real wittnesses"? The garbage she is seeing in the congregation is starting to get to her. In my local congregation the zeal has cooled of tremedously, we went from 8.7 to 7.5 hrs. per publisher (i see the time every month). men dont want to reach out, the youth are not buying it. for the 1st time in this orgs history they may be in trouble.

DesirousOfChange

You'll see it drop tomorrow in the UK. LOL Can you imagine working in service the day after that article came out? I wouldn't want to do it.

But it's delicious---because we know what the householder's first question will be---"Do you really shun your children when they walk away from your church????"

Don't kid yourself. When the Nightline expose' on the child abuse settlement was aired here in the US a few years ago, I feared what to reply to anyone at the door who mentioned it. Never heard a peep.

News (good or bad) about JWs is only important to present or past JWs (less than 1% of the population). No one else cares unless it's sensational. That's why it's so hard to get anything published. News on QuickBuild KHs was front page news long ago, esp in small town markets, at one time as it was sensational that people would drive to work on Friday morning past new KH site with only foundation in place, and then drive home 8 hours later with complete building shell up. Looked like the building grew out of nowhere in one day. Dist Conv are now smaller so no big deal -- not much publicity ever generated.

DOC

punkofnice

DOC - When the Silentlambs documentary was shown in the UK I was afraid to go to work the next day. What happened? Nothing. Business as usual.

So I asked a few if they'd seen the program and NO! No one was interested in it.

No one mentioned it on the doors........well, when I found someone home that is.

People just think that JWs are happy smiley favourite aunt figures who are harmless but just as nutty as a fruitcake.

Having said that any heightening of awareness is brilliant. Erode away!

WTWizard

If they are going to have whole Washtowel articles being studied that are full of hate speech, and continually changing "a generation" and other key doctrines, they are going to have fewer people in field circus. Besides, with people's incomes not keeping up with gas prices, they have less resources to waste going out in field circus.

Local Needs: Low Hours