Worldwide Service Report From Bethel:

acsot

Worldwide Service Report From Bethel:
> October 29, 2003
> This morning Brother Gerrit Losch gave us the worldwide service
> report for last service year.
> He gave us the following figures:
> Lands - 235
> Branches - 109
> Average Publishers - 6,184,046
> (2.2% increase. Countries where our work is restricted had an 8.2%
> increase!)
> Peak Publishers - 6,429,351 (2% increase)
> Books (Placements.) - 23,273,275 (5.6% increase)
> Magazines Printed - over 1,155,000,000
> Magazines Placed - about 700,000,000
> Return Visits - 468,171,389 (3.2% increase)
> Bible Studies - 5,726,509 (7.9% increase)
> Congregations - 95,919 (25 new congregations formed every week)
> Bethelites Worldwide - 19,848 (25 more than last year)
> Baptized - 4,978 every week (Almost 259,000. Mexico had 20,988
> baptized and Brazil 32,140.)
> Memorial Attendance - 16,097,622
> (3.2% increase - about half a million. Mexico had 1,738,387 and
> Brazil 1,563,790. Countries of the former Soviet Union had about
> 724,000,
> and the U.S. had 2,273,856!)
> Memorial Partakers - 8,565 (8,760 last year)
> Pioneers (all varieties) - 825,185 (3.3% increase)

> "Lift up your eyes and view the fields, that they are white for
> harvesting. Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering fruit
> for everlasting life." (John 4:35, 36)

sens

Memorial Partakers - 8,565 (8,760 last year)

wow...it dropped...got a long way to go

Scully

Baptized - 4,978 every week (Almost 259,000. Mexico had 20,988 baptized and Brazil 32,140.)

Memorial Attendance - 16,097,622
(3.2% increase - about half a million. Mexico had 1,738,387 and Brazil 1,563,790. Countries of the former Soviet Union had about 724,000, and the U.S. had 2,273,856!)

Now there's a reason to celebrate!! How about a piñata party?

Love, Scully

Nosferatu

> Magazines Printed - over 1,155,000,000
> Magazines Placed - about 700,000,000

Magazines not placed: 1,155,000,000 - 700,000,000 = 455,000,000

Magazines sitting in JWs homes collecting dust: 455,000,000 - 6,000,000 = 449,000,000

Approximate "extra" magazines owned by one dub: 449,000,000 / 6,000,000 = 74.8

That's a lot of waste.

acsot

Since I try and avoid math whenever possible, will somebody please tell me how these stats hold up? I mean, hasn't the number of average pubs been hovering around 6,000,000 for awhile now? How do they get an increase? is it because of the 15 minute rule?

With so many fake publishers and fake hours, why does the GB go through this ridiculous exercise every year?

Magazines not placed: 1,155,000,000 - 700,000,000 = 455,000,000
Magazines sitting in JWs homes collecting dust: 455,000,000 - 6,000,000 = 449,000,000

Jeez, I never even clued in! Told y'all I avoid math whenever possible. To me that seems another reason not to include the stats - why not just a general exhortation about how great they're doing and how many people are being helped ?

Mulan

Well, all I can say is that I lied about my time, when I was active so why wouldn't they lie, or stretch it a bit?

It all seems a bit contrived to me, considering the numbers of the past few years.

blondie

Ascot, a good rule of thumb I have seen used here is the average number of hours it takes to make a "disciple." Also, I look at the number baptized compared to the increase. Even when factoring in unbaptized publishers, deaths, and DFs/DAs, there are quite a few MIA. Also the number of anointed has not dipped down below 8,000 in the past 10 years. I don't think the 15 minute rule affected it as much as the increase in 3rd world countries. Look at the increase in the US, Canada, Australia, and European countries. The US would have no increase at all but for the increase in the Spanish-speaking congregations (per the last 2 COs). The congregation I last attended has not had a new person baptized in the last 5 years but have 4 faders and 3 DF'd.

Blondie

rocketman

They seem a bit numbers-obsessed. Putting these numbers together involves a lot of work by a lot of congregation secretaries compiling figures each and every month. I know, I did the work, and it was a pain and quite time-consuming. First, getting all field service reports uncrinkled an in order. Then totaling the numbers. Then filling out the report and sending it by the 6th of each month. Then posting numbers on each and every publisher record card. All the while, dealing with late-reporting publishers and the problem that caused each month (about 15% of the congregation reported late each month when I did that job). Then having the CO come by twice a year and want all the cards pulled from the file, which meant rearranging it all when he was done.

No wonder nobody ever wanted to be Congregation Secretary. And what I just mentioned was only part of the job.

Nosferatu

Average Return Visits per Publisher: 468,171,389 / 6,429,351 = 72.8

Any of you ever have that many?

JeffT

It took 22 bible studies, 2,700 magazines and a fraction under 90 books to make one witness. I didn't see the total hours, maybe I missed it. They baptized 259,000 people. But peak publishers increased about 126,000 and average about 120,000. The society says that one percent die each year (somebody with actuarial tables can check that). If that is true they still lost 70,000 to 80,000 people out the back door one way or another.

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