attendance was 1200 in the morning, 1146 in the afternoon.
5 baptisms, mostly young girls (18-20 range) and one that look older (over 20).
cost of the assembly $8500.
Thanks for the stats STA
1200 attendance with 5 baptised with a GB member present. Not too hot.
I wonder if there will be a slight bounce back from last year's low figures. We had a zero out of 1000 for the first time in 30 years at a CA I attended in April 2015. And 3 out of 1000 last November. Next one is end of March - will be interesting.
The millstone wheels of the ARC will grind slowly but I believe they will grind fine.
Justice McLellan did say last summer that the investigation would take another two and a half years. They are working their way through.
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-ordered-destruction-notes-10848053.
jehovah's witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry.
06:21, 7 feb 2016. by huw silk.
@ the girl next door
Konceptual99 is spot on.
i was just thinking about how the wts has been spouting off for years that satan and his demons were cast down to the vicinity of the earth in 1914, but really, when you think about it, what was the difference before 1914 or after 1914?.
its not like satan and his demons did not have access to the earth.
satan and his demons always were messing with earth.
@TheWonderofYou
Satan must have got bored with enjoying using war to kill humans after "lobbing the atomic bombs" - apparently 80 million (3.5% of a world population of 2.3 Billion in 1945) were killed from 1914 - 1945 and "only" 20 million (0.29% of a world population of 7.0 Billion) in the 70 plus years since.
this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.
there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.
the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.
You weren't "sighing and groaning" or "greatly distressed" over "the terrible world conditions."
In other words you weren't susceptible and vulnerable to the fantasy panda petting with your dead loved ones he was offering.
hi, not sure if this has been covered.. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-13/peter-hollingworth-says-sorry-to-victims-child-abuse-brisbane/6939804.
i don't have much time for peter hollingworth.
he has always acted like a pompous prick when i have met him or seen him on tv however he humbled himself and made an apology for his actions and the actions of the church.. any bets on if the gb would ever do this?.
We abhor child abuse. We abhor the fact that we have been found out in that our policies on handling child abuse have been self serving.
Most of all we abhor paying out money set aside for the worldwide life saving work (a.k.a our top class lifestyle in our retirement lakeside complex and a few thousand ineffectual trolley carts) to victims of child abuse even more.
caveat 1: those who believe jesus is truly the son of god may wish to avoid this post.
although my thoughts are only proposed for mild amusement and interest and in no way intended to offend, for some, the concept behind the idea may be an affront to preciously held beliefs.
if that’s likely to be the case, kindly just don’t read.
I would go back in my time machine to a remote spot just inside a cave. It would have enough modern supplies for me to set up camp in the cave for about a week and I would have infra red sensors placed about a 200 metres out to warn me of human/wild animal approach.
I would take a rifle and handgun for protection.
I would sit in my time machine and operate a small drone from my cave equipped with microphone, loudspeaker and night vision cameras and scout out the area. The drone would be equipped to drop small gifts where I wished and then the fun would start.
First off, one evening I would hang an L.E.D lantern below the drone in the market place and watch everyones' amazement as I floated it round above their heads. Then I would drop bags of jelly-babies (character shaped soft jelly-beans) and watch their delight as they tasted such sweet stuff.
That would cheer everyone up!
are jw's heading for the exit?
after lurking on this site for a year or so i have noticed a number of new poster's including me.
but does this indicate a massive departure for the exit?
Our cong. of 90 "publishers" (in 2014) has an attendance of 60-65 average (boosted by some on a phone connection). Secretary told us last month that we were "83 publishers". So seven have gone somewhere. I'm a bit hazy but this is what I have picked up.
2014
1 sister in her 70's dissasociated over doctrine and moved away.
1 brother in his 50's died
1 youngster became an unbaptised publisher
0 baptisms
2015
1 sister in her 70's deliberately went inactive
1 sister in her 60's who "comes and goes" went inactive again
1 brother in his 60's went inactive
1 teenager went inactive from being an unbaptised publisher
1 youngster got baptised
1 young brother moved in due to work
2 (a couple) moved out
2016-1-12-boe.
"apply yourself to the field ministry," the "initial call" assignmentdirects the student to mention the donation arrangement..http://postimg.org/image/tayz8pawn/..atlantis!
In the UK we were told not to initiate mentioning donations from the outset (early 1990's?) of the donation arrangement - this was due to strict charity/tax rules in the UK.
So this letter is because now we are being fed all things "United States" (as in US English) on broadcasts and OCLAMS we need separate clarification by letter.
A few years back before JW.Orgasm we had Kingdom Ministrys in British English and the field service report and occasionally other items would reflect the British field.
