Memorial attendance down?

by TweetieBird 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  Reborn2002

  My local Kingdumb Hall was one of the most prominent and affluent in the South Chicago suburbs.

  When I was an active Witness, we often had 350-400 packing the KH for the Memorial.

  I for one think attendance IN REALITY is DOWN, even WITH 9-11.
  I asked a friend who is still in for family reasons (gag) and he said about 265 showed up.

  Im certain the Watchtower Bullshit and Trick Society will find a spin-tactic or just outright LIE to see to it statistics show an INCREASE in the number of attendees, and a DECREASE in the number of partakers to coincide with their doctrine.

  Another year, another line of BS.

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  SloBoy

  from northern ca. The cong. here usually has around 190-210; this year 130, and as been said, a number of children and 'inactive' ones.
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  Moxy

  Memorial attendance is, for reasons I don't understand, pretty much uncorrelated to all other JW statistics. Many, many countries have had a constant decline in publishers and service hours over the past ten years, but randomly changing memorial attendance (sometimes up, sometimes down) during the same period.

  one reason is because it falls on a different day of the week each year, greatly affecting the numbers among the RVs and friends who are right on the edge in the 'will-attend-if-not-busy' category. thursday is a the big night for network TV so maybe this year will be down -- but you're right. you shouldnt draw conclusions from the vascillations in memorial attendance from year to year. you have to use a moving average over several years to smooth it out and get anything meaningful.

  mox