At what age do most or many JWs kids count as "publisher?"

Gayle

What is considered as a requirement for them now-a-days to turn in their time as a "publisher?" Among born-in, how young were you? My parents became JWs when I was 9 yrs old. So, I started then.

gma-tired2

I was 5 and both of my children was 5 as most of my born in friends

To turn in time they have to have gone through the unbaptized publisher procedure and if okayed, the service overseer and the rest of the elders are notified and an announcement is made in the congregation. The rule in this area was they had to be able to read. So I saw some as young as 6.

DesirousOfChange

I was 5.

So were our kids, about 5/6.

They will probably lower the age, since 5 or 6 is now pretty close to time for baptism.

Doc

sir82

In our congregation it seems to be around age 8 or so. Though there was one just approved at the late age of 14.

Pops was just appointed an elder so I guess he was feeling the pressure.

Juan Viejo2

I was 8 and Richard Kelly was 6. And we were knocking on doors by ourselves in West Los Angeles and Venice, CA in those days (1950-1958).

I would knock on doors with my best friend Lonnie, who was my same age, in some of the worst sections of Riverside, California (what was then, and still is a ghetto area) when we were just 10 and 11. It was not unusual for me to work both sides of a street by myself without an adult JW in sight.

Crazy thing was that we never gave it a second thought. That was just what we did every Saturday and Sunday morning.

JV

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Finkelstein

Some parents will push their children hard to go out in service and even give talks.

There is evidence of this even on Youtube, where 6 year old gave a talk during a service meeting.

A far as I know there is no age restriction on to when a person, in this case a child can establish a publisher report card.

In WTS. think, the more the better, as well the earlier the better .

Amelia Ashton

My eldest became an unbaptised publisher at 10 and her younger sister was about 8.

There was no pressure for either to get baptied and I would have resisted it if there had because even as a still very much in dubby I disagreed with children being baptised until after their rebellious stage.

Gopher

JW kids = free child labor for the WT publishing corp.

JW kids = hard to say "no" to when they come to your door with a cute magazine presentation.

JW kids = about two-thirds will leave the organization as adults.

I fit into each of the 3 categories above starting by age 7 at the latest (I can't remember for sure).