i know that title sounds weird but so is this situation.
with the following information i'm about to desconspire myself a little bit, but i don't really care since i will simply deny it if any of my elders are lurking here.
anyway the situation is the following.
Isn't it cold and flu season? Maybe you could cancel thru the season?
Does the org 'require' underlining answers? Is it a disfellowshipping or 'marking' offense! This is just too negative and insulting to bring into your home.
Maybe you should set up a 'contribution' box for 'your' home expense!
daughter missed a call from an elder tonight...we've missed meetings for about a month now.
she is dating a worldly guy and i'm sure someone has seen them together.
makes us nervous and with us being fairly new to the fading facet... should she call or avoid.
AVOID them> they have no authority over you> SINCE YOU are new to the fading<< allow yourself plenty more time.
i heard a rumour that the uk hq is moving from mill hill in london to a location in essex near chelmsford.
explanation being that it's closer to the transport networks.
anyone know anymore?.
"We won't be knocking on people's doors, that's not the case, we're busy with other things," he said.
"But we do organise tours to show people around the locations. As a charity relying on donations, Jehovah's Witnesses will come from all over Britain to see what their money is being spent on.
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going to have a "hospital" ==??? for their elderly
it’s going to be good fun.”
as a born-in, i was eager to join the ministry school.
my cousins were also born-in but lived in different states.
there was keen competition to see who could do mature things, such as baptism (my mom said when i was 35) and ministry school.
NO!!!
i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
sometimes when the org, gets into a 'new' area, there can be a burst of energy at the newness,,new hopes,,new friends, love bombing and much, much forgiveness. After awhile, tiredness sets in, disappointments, realities of disfellowshippings, over demands of the org life. as said, worse thing for a cult is: TIME. No doubt the WTS will burn out even faster those in foreign countries if third-world. Japan had an amazing growth years ago,,slowly and steadily decreasing.
A cult needs 'new blood.' Or it gets meaner and more demanding like a beast.
announced that two ohio circuits are to be dissolved including 5 congregations.
congregations in the dissolved circuits will be assigned to two existing circuits.
the excuse the letter offered is that people are moving, or that people are retiring and leaving the area.
is it true that the march ministry is hinting that this year will be the last memorial, someone just said that today in the service, just wanted to confirm.. .
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edit: forgot to add the month..
The WT writers are very manipulative.. they make it sound like their are saying something specific ,,they throw 4 Will this Memorial be our last? (1 Cor. 11: 26) (with intonation almost as a fact) We do not know. then after the time period, then they say, emphasize, they didn't say something. they artists of double-tongue.
i just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
U.S.: 85 avg. pubs/cong. 183 attendance/Memorial/cong. So, 98 non-pubs attended Memorial. Everyone gets excited about Attendance number. Of these, the cong. has to get 3 attenders for year to become publishers (whether new or reactivated) to get at least an increase of 1% (the increase noted last two years each) (avg. cong. odds that one pub. will die and one will be DF'd)
Pubs. avg. .6 Bible study, so avg. cong. has 52 Bible studies. Avg. cong. had 2.3 baptized.
Avg. cong. has 11 reg. pios. and 5 aux. pios/mo. Avg. pub (aside from Pios) is 9.8 hr/mos. Population Ratio was same for 2013 as 2012: 1 pub to 262 U.S. pop.
i just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.
first column: 2013 av.
pubs minus 2012 av.
This is about 'Bible Studies,' showing continual increases, however, baptisms not increasing by comparison:
Worldwide:
Bible Studies Baptized
2007 6,561,426 298,304 4.5%
2008 7,133,760 289,678 4.1%
2009 7,619,270 276,233 3.6%
2010 8,058,359 294,368 3.7%
2011 8,490,746 263,131 3.1%
2012 8,759,988 268,777 3.1%
2013 9,254,963 277,344 3.0%
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U.S.:
2007 546,631 37,243 6.8%
2008 603,313 35,597 5.9%
2009 657,544 34,739 5.3%
2010 683,090 35,120 5.1%
2011 714,151 32,953 4.6%
2012 722,179 32,039 4.4%
2013 723,326 32,118 4.4%
the belgium branche of jw in kraainem will be closed.. the netherlands branche of jw in emmen will be reorganized into an ict devolpment office.. all the oldtimers jw staff in emmen is told they have to leave, they are dismissed.. of course it will be explained that the organization is on the move, a blessing from jehovah.. gorby.
Neither country grew in JWs as noted on 2014 Service Report,,the Yearbok reportws 91 branches, but does this bring it down to 89? Wonder what country is next?
