Posting for a member of the board:----Petra!
I wanted to answer Spiral on the percentage loss. Thank you! Spaghetti with vodka sauce and a good Chianti to you! Here's a link to the post for easy clicking: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6245029520605184/dissolved-congregations-minneapolis-st-paul Here's my English percentage research: In the talks they gave in early November (uggh, doozy) they said 75 congregations were involved. However, I know they went very far out, like an hour to hour and a half drive.
The people in the farthest out congregation (Cong X) that I know, do not know of ANY changes (but they don't go much, good for them). WT elders might have just moved some people into or out of that congregation. If we take their word for it, that would be 13/75 or 17.3% reduction in 2020.
However, a couple years ago they dissolved six. 19/81 is 23.4% in just about 4 years. When I went back to my pdfs from JW.Borg find a meeting from 2017 and tried to figure out how many are actually in Mpls/St.Paul Metro I stop at 48. Cong #49 and 50 are Rockford, MN and one in Hudson Wisconsin.
They said they did not go into Wisconsin for this re-org. Then cong X is number 55. So, then it would be 13/48 or 27.0%. Adding the six they got rid of a couple years ago that is 19/54 or 35.1%.
NOTE: JW.Borg changed the find a meeting soon after I printed/saved those PDFs. The lists I have would start with the closest halls and progressively go farther out in a sort of ring. Anyone remember when they did that? There has been a lot of gerrymandering for lack of a better word, re-assigning people. Remember when they just gave a talk to say "Go to the hall in your territory"?
Not anymore, now it's more one on one. CONTROL, at least from WT. An elder might try to be more lenient, but they have little wiggle room. They seem to want people to be unfamiliar with each other.
The four dissolved Spanish congregations is 4/15 or 26.6%. I don't know if they got rid of any Spanish before 2017, darn.