MEETING ATTENDANCE SOARS and HALLS ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY! 2004 YB.

by Blueblades 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  Blueblades

  2004 YB.page 23.

  During the 2003 service year,2,340 Kingdom Halls were completed around the world.This represents an average of 195 halls per month,or just over 6 per day!Since November 1999 when the construction program in lands with limited resources began,7,730 Kingdom Halls have been built.In many areas,once a hall is finished,meeting attendance soars and halls are soon filled to capacity.

  My comment:This is nothing new.From the time of the Dedication till the newness wears off this is usually the trend.Halls filled to capacity does not indicate new converts.Proof of this is when the Memorial season comes around the halls usually are filled and then the very next meeting they are not filled to capacity.So,for one night meeting attendance soars then declines just as swiftly the next.

  I am told that my hall which usually had a least 100 in attendance now has about 35 on school nights and 60 on sunday.What about your hall does it soar and is it filled to capacity?

  Blueblades
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  RandomTask

  Or hey, They're lying like they usually do
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  simwitness

  well, let's see...

  Sell 5 due to low attendance, combine those into 1 "newly built" hall...

  Sounds like a recipe for (financial) success...
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  Joker10

  With about 100 publishers, the congregation I use to attend to, there was about 130-140 on Wdnesday and 150-175 on Sunday mornings. And 225 when the CO visits.
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  shamus

  That's nice, JOker, but it isn't the case everywhere!

  Certain areas have "increases" but that does not tell of the ones that DO NOT have increases, but decreases in meeting attendance. Also, the 15 minute publishing rule, LMAO! Anyone can count time! Hell, I could... and maybe you are right now typing witness baloney out. Enjoy your privleges! The second that they find out that you're here, they'll throw you out on your ass.

  In any event, what of the KH's that "conglomerated" into one, etc. etc. etc....

  They are just lying, as per usual. True, publishers can go up in a year to a "peak", but, as I already said, the 15 minute rule is sooo dumb... the numbers are flawed at they're very source.
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  garybuss

  Here, they are either having good meeting attendance, or they are hiring people to park their cars in the Kingdom Hall parking lot on meeting nights. Me thinks after 9-11 a bunch returned and still are there. That, and there has been HUGE pressure to attend meetings and do more literature distribution and I think that effort has been successful. I think they are gaining here. GaryB
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  blondie

  In many 3rd world countries, congregations have been meeting in rented spaces, some even outside. So each newly built KH does not represent a new congregation, merely that they now own the space they meet in. In the area I live in a new congregation has not been formed for over 5 years. In fact, 2 congregations were combined because attendance was so low. All new construction is merely a replacement KH for an existing congregation or a remodel of a KH owned by another existing congregation. So 1 new KH does not equal 1 new congregation. I always wondered why a new KH was built for a congregationn in Canada/US/Australia/UK/Europe when their current KH was better than anything they have in Africa or Central/South America. I can remember a visiting African JW in awe at the comforts at the KH. He said they sat on plastic buckets, had no AC, running water, or flush toilets.

  Attendance runs around 80 percent in this area. All this people can't be sick and on vacation at the same time.

  Blondie
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  William Penwell

  I know in the area I am in, a number of congregations have been desolved. Also not all the new halls built are due to an increase in Jdub membership but replacing of older kingdom halls. So I can't see the great influx where I live. Most of the increase is coming from third world countries where Kingdom Halls consist of mud, a few bamboo poles and bales of hay for the roof.

  Will
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  shamus

  Let's hope that that trend continues, William.
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  FlyingHighNow

  Okay.

  Cong. has 100 PUBLISHERS. This does not include the following: babies, toddlers, teenagers who rebel and don't publish, grumpy unbelieving mates who were forced to attend or terrified disfellowshipped people who are only coming out of irrational fear that a thing called Armageddon is coming to get 'em at any moment. Of course they may not be counting very young children but the point is: not every family member in JW nuclear families is going to be a publisher.

  Heather