The Polish have their own stand-alone convention next year at Coventry Arena (replacing the English one!)
darkspilver
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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daveysmithy30: Just look at the number of foreign language conventions that are taking place in 2018 in which some languages are having for the first time such as Japanese, Slovak and Lithuanian.
Actually there was both a Slovak convention and a Lithuanian convention this year:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5695993188188160/_post/5998711073144832
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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Londo111: Last year, there seems to be a slight decline or stagnation if I remember correctly.
haha!
I said 13 consecutive years of increase - and a year-on-year increase from 2015 to 2016 of 26, is still an increase, no matter how small :-0
Of course, in 'real-terms', compared to population growth, the Jdubs have decreased over the same 13 years.
- 2003: 1-in-456
- 2016: 1-in-471
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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Londo111: First--what has increased?
Britain has seen 13 consecutive years of increase in average publishers reporting, representing a 10.4% increase of some 14,000 publishers from 2003 to 2016.
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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dozy: It's probably about time that the circuits were renamed as the names dated back to the 50's when there were far fewer congregations so are often misnamed from a geographical standpoint
Ignoring the positive spin. I think the above would seem to be the real reason.
Circuits are traditionally named after the County they are in. Breaking out of this artificiality will enable circuits to be more efficiently organised, crossing over county borders, often enabling circuits to be better arranged for the CO to visit and for assemblies to be assigned.
The WT have, at last, realised they need to do a 'root and branch' exercise, rather than just fiddle with the boundaries, like they've normally done in the past.
Even without losing any congregations, it may be possible, due to more efficient boundary planning, enable them to reduce the number of circuits by 1 or even 2.
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2017-12-4 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND Re: Changes to Circuits
by wifibandit indecember 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
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freddo: Well... sad man that I am I had a look on jwborg and counted up the present number of congregations in Scotland
Wow - you can also check out the Scottish Charity Commission - it appears they list 110, though three are not congregations - so that's a pretty good match with your figure.
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Is it true the society were considering disfellowshipping overweight people in the 1980s?
by UnshackleTheChains ini just saw the video below and thought 'no way' !!!.
but then given the obsessive amount of rules they have, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that this was at least considered.
if there is some credibility to this, then they most certainly have gone beyond the pale!.
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_Morpheus: Actually it is CURRENTLY a df’ing offense.
It's not a DF'ing offense, per se...
The df'ing offense is actually gluttony...
which, of course, is one of the seven deadly sins...
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Reposting old posts as new
by steve2 ini cannot find the report feature on the forum or has it been removed?.
in the past week or so poster jehovah lol appears to have re-posted as new his topic on jw talk.
i have checked and the posts are identical - perhaps not a big deal, but it's a little like internal spam.
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darkspilver
sir82 - I don't think The Searcher was an 'inexperienced' user with 3,800 posts over 6 years, yet:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5700877652328448/_post/5090464988397568
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Reposting old posts as new
by steve2 ini cannot find the report feature on the forum or has it been removed?.
in the past week or so poster jehovah lol appears to have re-posted as new his topic on jw talk.
i have checked and the posts are identical - perhaps not a big deal, but it's a little like internal spam.
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darkspilver
steve2 -
In Jehovah lol's own words: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5460119312662528/_post/5126406259343360
In Simon's own words: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5459367357841408/_post/5120676772970496
