by TheListener 17 Replies latest watchtower bible
From KM 8/05
special pioneers: number 245; hrs 97.7; mags113.3; rvs 44.3; bs 4.5
pioneers: number 92,495; hrs 65.3; mags 45.2; rvs 20.6; bs 2.0
aux. pios.: number 31,115; hrs 49.3; mags 39.9; rvs 12.7; bs 1.0
pubs.: number 867,595; hrs 9.4; mags 8.6; rvs 3.5; bs 0.3
total: number 991,450 -------------------baptized 2,009
Listener - How does this compare with figures of a year back and two years back - have you got the referances?
Jeff
I wonder why they lowered the pioneer and special pioneer hours/goals and they still keep the publisher ideal at 10 hours per month.
Official
Regular pioneer 70 hours
Auxiliary pioneer 50 hours
Unofficial
Publisher 10 hours
Based on 4 Saturdays @ 2 hours each = 8 plus 1 Sunday afternoon 2 hours = 10
They want the publishers to go out in service at least one day every week.
Supposedly, because 10 hours is unofficial, most "good" JWs are supposed to strive for more; 3 hours on Saturday and every Sunday would be approximately 20 hours.
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km 2/73 pp. 1-6 Branch Letter ***Some have said: ‘But we have no quotas now.’ Though the hour requirements for the various branches of pioneer service have not changed, it is true that congregation publishers have no set goal of, say, ten hours per month. Yet the question might be asked: Is this a valid reason for decreasing the amount of time spent in doing the will of Jehovah God in the field service? Really, in past years we were not going in the field service simply to meet a goal of hours, were we? We were interested in preaching the good news of God’s kingdom, to magnify Jehovah’s name and to give others the opportunity to hear. And we still are. Now that we do not all have a set goal of hours we are not to conclude that our field ministry is any less important. Our message is urgent. This is something to think about, don’t you agree? Jehovah’s requirement that our service be whole-souled has not changed.
I always justified the time in my mind. I would say to myself that it wasn't the time that was important, simply that within a specified amount of time, so much good could be done. I always hated counting time. It made me feel like it was a job, like I was butchering meat or pushing papers instead of helping people come to a specific heart condition. Even re-reading what I have just written makes me sick. I feel like I have been such an elitist to people. I am going to help them reach a heart condition. Barf.
So for comparison then;
2005 [2003 in red]
Special pioneers: number 245 [189] increase of 29%
Pioneers: number 92,495 [86,884] increase of 6%
Aux. Pios.: number 31,115 [30,091] increase of 3%
Pubs.: number 867,595 [875,248] decrease of just under 1%
Publisher figures; hrs 9.4 [9.5]; mags 8.6 [8.4]; rvs 3.5 [3.7] ; bs 0.3 [0.4]
Total: 991,450 [992,412] decrease of about 1% Baptized 2,009 [2,863] decrease of 43%
So, while you can make statistics say anything, this report is not positive from the witness perspective. Especially the baptism number. The total publishers is significant too. I give little creedance to the pio numbers - they are always getting new zealots to join the pio ranks - but the effectiveness is not there obviously.
Thanxs Elsewhere for those figures to compare.
Jeff
I thought regular pioneers put in 90 hours and aux put in 60; did they change that?
yes... get with the program...90 hrs. is sooo "old light"....duh1
LOL!
u/d (of the counting "hours" is silly class)
Elsewhere,
Was that the August '03 report or the report from the August '03 KM?
I showed the May '05 report from the August '05 KM.
Just want to ensure we're comparing apples to apples.
