With the A.R.C.,Closing Bethles,Selling off K.H's.Publisher numbers at best stagnating,Court case's going against them.
I give a 3 out of 10.
Karter
The 2016 year,How do you score the J.W's??
by karter 8 Replies latest jw friends
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karter
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smiddy
I agree with you Karter its certainly a downhill slide for them and a 3 sounds reasonable to me .
However they will still be around for "generations" to come ,their will always be vulnerable/needy people among us sadly.
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alanv
Far as I know it was the first time that they lost more members in the whole of Europe than they gained.
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jookbeard
thats an astounding stat AlanV , who'd have predicted that 20 years ago!
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alanv
Yeh I keep a track of the figures for Europe each year as I live in the UK. Here they grew by just 26 last year. That is just 0.02%. Its nearly 1 million hours spent for each additional publisher. lol
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DesirousOfChange
Its nearly 1 million hours spent for each additional publisher. lol
It's only 300,000 hours for each publisher if you deduct the time they count while sitting at Starbucks.
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Londo111
I think they will rebound somewhat in 2017 thanks to the Russian ban.
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Crazyguy
Here the thing if thier only ground by very little each year based of baptisms then we really can tell what's really going on. Baptisms i.e. Former publishers means no real growth at all. Then with many quitting being DFD and others dying, what we really have is a decline. Now factor in all those that quit after 1975 all those that quit after the 1995 change in The Generation, the final conclusion must be thier really much smaller in number then they lead us to believe. I'd say maybe 3 million baptized members and falling. -
pepperheart
I think 3 or even 2,i say that because even with all the cuts the watchtower have made since 2012 they are STILL selling kingdom halls off just these past weeks other posters have put details of 3 kingdom halls that have been put up for sale.and once you start selling halls off it makes it harder for any one even if they are needy people