sometimes, comparing raw numbers provides a more clear-cut numerical picture of growth or otherwise than percentages.
below are the numbers for peak publishers (rounded off so that 4,1 represents more than 4,100,000) for each year throughout the 1990s and those for the last ten years.. year: peak* baptisms.
* peak publishers abbreviated - simply to show annual baptisms in relation to peak publishers.. the main point: .
No way not going to happen, yes great growth in Latin and maybe some African countries but really I don't believe they make up for the loss.
If you are in an urban Western congregation, how many African and Latino families have become members?
IMO, this is an active strategy by WT to keep their numbers from totally cratering in the West.
of 3 in cleveland: avg.
attendance 7500 baptised 27 a robust growth of 0.38%!
not my convention so no details..
A fair number of 2015 convention attendance and baptism were tracked here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/392far/2015_convention_locationdatesattendancebaptized/
Ballpark was about 0.5% of attendees were baptized.
2016 numbers appeared to be about 0.4%
So far, in 2017, there appears to be slightly less than 0.4% (but not by much).
The 2018 Yearbook numbers for the west should likely show slight overall declines in average publishers.
https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=120417d3885200081425bb76fa549c306e1e6&mode=embed
i thought that wt would have started doing this, but i have not noticed any posts before.. can anyone confirm (post is from fb)?.
so i have been looking up these different articles to read for myself...one problem.the last time we got a disc was 2015 and i used my mil's disc to down load it to my computer.
they did a update to it last year over the internet, the program updated it's self.
Some months ago the wt asked that old copies of Library be disposed of.
Any reference source available?
i thought that wt would have started doing this, but i have not noticed any posts before.. can anyone confirm (post is from fb)?.
so i have been looking up these different articles to read for myself...one problem.the last time we got a disc was 2015 and i used my mil's disc to down load it to my computer.
they did a update to it last year over the internet, the program updated it's self.
I thought that WT would have started doing this, but I have not noticed any posts before.
Can anyone confirm (post is from FB)?
So I have been looking up these different articles to read for myself...one problem.
The last time we got a disc was 2015 and I used my MIL's disc to down load it to my computer. They did a update to it last year over the internet, the program updated it's self. I'm not sure if the wt, awake and km where there b4 the update but they are NOT there now. There is a tone of stuff removed from 1975 back.
"keep alive until 1925" - j.f.
rutherford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhjnywjhh8.
2075 coming up soon, endorsed by David Splane
First, 2040.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5632557269909504/jw-video-armageddon-occur-before-2040
"keep alive until 1925" - j.f.
rutherford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhjnywjhh8.
"Keep alive until 1925" - J.F. Rutherford
today i read some news story's about the property deals of jw.org in brooklyn.
they made good money and good connections.. but i'm sure jw.org made a very, very big mistake in brooklyn.
they did.. they sold and are selling all the property for money.
so if I've read this correctly they sold their property portfolio in Brooklyn for far less than they were worth?
My POV is: Why sell Brooklyn real estate beginning in 2012, etc.? Nowhere near the peak of the market.
today i read some news story's about the property deals of jw.org in brooklyn.
they made good money and good connections.. but i'm sure jw.org made a very, very big mistake in brooklyn.
they did.. they sold and are selling all the property for money.
i didn't manage to last the whole broadcast.
it was so unbelievably boring that i only managed halfway before i switched it off.
in this broadcast anthony morris iii (who i affectionately call "the don") stresses to us the importance of studying - not one - but two of their publications in order to understand the bible.
ToMo is 100% correct.
The Bible Teach book is all carrot - pandas and paradise.
God's Love book is all stick - obey the Borg or die.
People that only want paradise, but who do not want to sacrifice their entire life to an unappreciative corporation, will indeed end up leaving.
Search the Bible Teach book for the following:
- faithful and discreet slave (or any variation)
- Governing Body
- disfellowship (ed) (ing)
These terms are withheld for a reason.
