Posts by insidetheKH

The Witnesses claimed their average number of publishers in Canada was 100,991 for 1991. In contrast, the 1991 Canadian Census found 168,375
self- identified Witnesses. What this shows is that there are many Canadians who report themselves to be Witnesses, but who are not counted as publishers. Consequently, membership statistics based on the average number of publishers offer a very conservative estimate.

http://www.oocities.org/rogueactivex/JWGrow-O.pdf

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May KM Highlight 1/Cong baptized

by Gayle in

jw
friends

at 2014 conventions (regional?

) 14,039 baptized.

outstanding for 13,871 congs!

insidetheKH

@Never a JW

Sociologist example: Rodney Stark

Survey example: Jehovah's Witnesses' official statistics only count as members those who submit reports for preaching activity, usually resulting in lower membership numbers than those found by external surveys. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses report approximately 1.2 million active publishers in the United States (including some children); however, the American Religious Identification Survey conducted in 2008 found that about 1.9 million adults self-identified as Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Mormon view of JW.ORG

by konceptual99 in

jw
friends

does anyone have any links to how the mormons (or ex mormons for that matter) view the changes that the wts has made over recent years, especially the growth of jw.org and characters like caleb & sophia?.

have they noticed?

do they see similarities?

insidetheKH

@konceptual conversion ratio's are not important

Noah preached for many years and he saw no results at all, still he is called a preacher of righteousness 2 Peter 2:5

So important is only to do what God commands us to do. People do not make converts,.. that is impossible.

(1 Corinthians 3:5-7) . . .. 6 I planted, A·pol′los watered, but God kept making [it] grow; 7 so that neither is he that plants anything nor is he that waters, but God who makes [it] grow.

30

May KM Highlight 1/Cong baptized

by Gayle in

jw
friends

at 2014 conventions (regional?

) 14,039 baptized.

outstanding for 13,871 congs!

insidetheKH

@Eden is correct

30

May KM Highlight 1/Cong baptized

by Gayle in

jw
friends

at 2014 conventions (regional?

) 14,039 baptized.

outstanding for 13,871 congs!

insidetheKH

@Morpheus was that the british branch?

30

May KM Highlight 1/Cong baptized

by Gayle in

jw
friends

at 2014 conventions (regional?

) 14,039 baptized.

outstanding for 13,871 congs!

insidetheKH

@Gonebad are you good at math? about 0.8% of the people are dying every year so that is about 10,000 witnesses per year in the U.S

there is a net increase every year of active witnesses in the U.S (in 2014 the net increase of average publishers was about 20,000 and 36,064 were baptised)

So just explain how you get the 40,000+ figure of people being disfellowshipped,.. leaving.. fading etc etc.?

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May KM Highlight 1/Cong baptized

by Gayle in

jw
friends

at 2014 conventions (regional?

) 14,039 baptized.

outstanding for 13,871 congs!

insidetheKH

@millie @stuck

there are about 14000 congregations in the U.S. At the meeting about the 1000 new Kingdom Halls the reason was discussed. It was because in certain area's growth was much higher than in the rest of the US and because of many Kingdom Halls that are shared between 4-6 congregations.

Furthermore there are Kingdom Halls that do not meet the modern day standard and criteria anymore and therefor will be replaced by a new one.

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Nigerian scammers are getting hilariously sloppy - read this

by sir82 in

here is part of a scam e-mail delivered to my junk folder (i glance thru it every so often for kicks).

i highlighted the parts i found especially goofy:.

we found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, and we are happy to announce to you that every necessary legalarrangement regarding to your compensation has been signed and sealed.

insidetheKH

tell them it is okay... let them transfer the 5.6 million to the him-woman.