Hi GG! The 2004 yearbook gives the number of the Remnant, partakers at the Memorial, 8,565. The 2005 yearbooks adds 5 more? 8,570. I remember Fred Franz saying, as of 1935, "No more additions o the remanant!" Only replacements! So, either they didn't count right the first time or 5 replacements came on board, meaning 5 were removed in 2004 for being unfaithful.
The number 8,000 has been holding for a number of years now. Recently some who have been born after 1935 were appointed to the Governing Body, who are all of the remnant. Go figure?
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