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  2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

  in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

  if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

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  alanv

  Don't have the 2013 numbers here to compare but the 2014 numbers are:

  Estonia: 6,875

  Latvia: 3,725

  Lithuania: 5,451

  Finland: 26,669

  Looks like 0.5% increase in these countries.
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  2014 MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES FOR REST OF THE WORLD

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.

  in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.

  if so, could you direct me to the source(s).

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  alanv

  With any luck the lack of replies on this thread may mean that other countries attendaces were not reported in local Kingdom Ministries. I also asked for anyone knowing the UK figure but nothing has turned up so far. So maybe in many lands there has been no increase.
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  Watchtower November 2014: Witnesses can't donate blood

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  let us read a recent watchtower publication:.

  many medical professionals and other advocates of blood transfusion appeal to people to donate blood in hopes of saving lives.

  however, jehovahs holy people acknowledge that the creator has the right to say how blood is to be treated.

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  alanv

  So they can accept parts of blood, but cannot donate so that witnesses can benifit from those parts. Mad!
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  DELIGHTFUL DROP IN MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES: 2011 VERSUS 2014!

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the us kingdom ministry shows the collective total 2014 memorial attendances of the countries that now comprise the us territory in 2014: 2,610,810.. those countries are: the usa, bermuda, jamaica, turks and caicos and puerto rico.. the same collective total for those same countries three years ago - 2011 - was 2,666,592.. that's a decrease of 55,782 from 2011 to 2014. i am happified.. while there has been the occasional year in which memorial attendances from one year to the next have shown decrease, this is a first: decline evident over a three-year period.. comments please!.

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  anyone have the know how on how to provide the link for the kingdom ministry download?

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  alanv

  Here is the link for the Memorial figure for 2014 for the USA territory.

  Instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

  L ink supplied by WatchTower 87.

  http://adf.ly/r3m4k
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  DELIGHTFUL DROP IN MEMORIAL ATTENDANCES: 2011 VERSUS 2014!

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the us kingdom ministry shows the collective total 2014 memorial attendances of the countries that now comprise the us territory in 2014: 2,610,810.. those countries are: the usa, bermuda, jamaica, turks and caicos and puerto rico.. the same collective total for those same countries three years ago - 2011 - was 2,666,592.. that's a decrease of 55,782 from 2011 to 2014. i am happified.. while there has been the occasional year in which memorial attendances from one year to the next have shown decrease, this is a first: decline evident over a three-year period.. comments please!.

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  anyone have the know how on how to provide the link for the kingdom ministry download?

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  alanv

  Anyone know the UK figures? May be in the UK Kingdom Ministry
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  October 2014 Kingdom Ministry (KM - 10/2014 PDF)

  by WatchTower87 in

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  2. bible

  our kingdom ministry october 2014 .

  instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

  no virus ;-).

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  alanv

  Thanks Viva. I noticed just after I posted that this was not just USA. 2013 service year showed USA 2,504,114 Puerto Rico 57,893 Jamaica 37133 and Turks and Caicos 1,242 and Bermuda 1,088. Total of 2,601,470 against 2014 figure of 2,610,810. Plus any other countries I have missed out. So actuallty looks like no increase at all. Great news.
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  October 2014 Kingdom Ministry (KM - 10/2014 PDF)

  by WatchTower87 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  our kingdom ministry october 2014 .

  instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.

  no virus ;-).

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  alanv

  Looks like a 4% rise in memorial attendance in the USA. Not good news
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  JWs getting "Footloose" at the Kingdom Hall

  by AndDontCallMeShirley in

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  i hope no one here get's injured when they see this and their jaw hits the floor:.

  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=689701664435095&set=vb.100001858044479&type=2&theater.

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  Wow how the might have fallen. So much for the kingdom hall being an exclusive place of worship. One more example of the JWs going mainstream.
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  Is the number of JWs leaving increasing?

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't mean jws getting stumbled or bored or getting dfd for immorality- there always have been a certain number of those all the time.. i've been out for a few years now but am curious to know from "still ins" if there is any evidence of increasing numbers of people leaving for classic "apostate" reasons - ie either fading or getting dfd because they have done research & realise that this isn't "the truth".. when i was a jw occasionally i would hear of someone suddenly stopping going to meetings & hearing through the grapevine & jw gossip mill that the person no longer believed it was the truth or had expressed doubts in the "slave" etc.

  but it didn't happen very often ( though it was increasing somewhat in the years before i left).. one would imagine with the internet & increased information available to all that this would be happening more often.

  any evidence of this , anecdotally?

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  alanv

  Although many may get disfellowshipped for immorality, that is only because they no longer believe it is the truth, so they feel it is ok to continue in immorality. It is very unlikely that those that get kicked out for that still believe everything the gov body says is true. Otherwise they would be repentant and not get disfellowshipped.
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  Beards......the CO allowed this one!

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  a minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.

  (not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.

  what do you make of that?.

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  alanv

  The Watchtower is becoming much more mainstream now. The result is that some things are allowed and some are not.