by confusedjw 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
the CO told us that this had been "piloted" in a European country and the result was a net gain in the publisher head count of about 2%.
Really??!!!! That's a very high figure. Has anyone else heard that reported in other countries. If true, I find it amazing - very encouraging too!
Really??!!!! That's a very high figure. Has anyone else heard that reported in other countries.
Sorry these aren?t hard figures for a whole country but,
It?s not really that high or hard to accomplish. Say a cong has an average cong has 2 or 3 inactive people who can take advantage of the 15 minutes.
Two shut in or nursing home elderlies + one very sick non elderly and you got your 2% easy.
I must say that we've only added two infirmed publishers since this started, but I think is was because many of the elderlies inflated their time so they could stay saved Christians.
I think we will have to continue to estimate the effect these number projects have had on growth. The Society isnt going to come out with the figures because it does make the negitive growth look much worse than they are reporting it to be.
IPSec
The Society isnt going to come out with the figures
This was a CO at a WTS-approved school for elders; he announced a specific number, which I don't remember precisely, but it was 2-point-something; I'm being conservative
As IP SEC points out, that just 2 or 3 people in a congo of 100 publishers, not difficult to imagine (for me, at least). At my last congo, home to many elderly ones, we had 20+ people on the phone at every Sunday meeting, almost all of them too old to get out of the house much. I resigned and left shortly after the 15-minute rule came into effect, so I don't know how it affected that congo's numbers, but I would guess they showed an increase of several percentage points at the end of the service year. Other congos may not have any; it averages out.
