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).
Anyone have access to the British Kingdom Ministry for November? It will likely have the memorial attendance for the British Isles for 2014
Steve2. The October 2014 KM has only recently become available, so Nov won't be available till early September I believe. But if other countries reported in the October KM, I dont see why UK would not have theirs out already.
So final plea to anyone who has access to Oct KM for UK. Can you please publish the memorial attendance for UK. Thanks
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
So they can accept parts of blood, but cannot donate so that witnesses can benifit from those parts. Mad!
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?
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.
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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?
Anyone know the UK figures? May be in the UK Kingdom Ministry
our kingdom ministry october 2014 .
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.
no virus ;-).
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.
our kingdom ministry october 2014 .
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.
no virus ;-).
Looks like a 4% rise in memorial attendance in the USA. Not good news
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.
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.
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?
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.
