Less congregations = less COs
One weekday meeting with CO = One CO can do two congregations in one week
Potential CO reduction >50%
Designer Stubble
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C.O.'s Are Perfectly Safe...
by The Searcher in... until they have fulfilled their role in the org's master plan to sit down with the bodies of elders in the circuits and ascertain which congregations should be merged or consolidated.
this "culling" of k.h.
's will now have to be accelerated - considering the panic to rake in cash.. after the c.o.
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are there really 8 million jw's?
by wannaexit inlast circuit assembly there was 700+ present and 1 baptized.. recently there was a foreign language assemble of over 500 and 1 baptized.. in the last 5-10 years i haven't been to one assembly where there has been more than a handful baptized.
at the memorial all i see are the same old faces that have been coming since the flood.. the hall complex i attend has 6 congregation and several groups-there is negative growth.
when you factor in the demographically aging folk and the many who have already passed away, i don't know where they get the 8 million.. i know that most of the growth is from the developing countries, but still i think they are fudging their numbers.
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The numbers are kept up and the increase is artificial.
Remember when they started to allow the elderly and sick report 15 minutes. This gave a sudden boost in the following year.
Then they allowed not one parent, but both parents to report 4 hours each month, regardless of whether kids were getting individual study, as taking them to meetings and out in service counts too. Parents have no reason to be irregular or inactive anymore and the numbers went up.
Further a lot of buzz was created when the auxiliary pioneer hours dropped to 30 hours.
And of course the easiest hours can be racked up sitting quietly beside a cart.
Finally as said, elders fill in often by default one hour for those who don't hand in their reports to prevent the CO hassling them.
The 8 million is simply not true.
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What is the most strange action of a witness while out in field service?
by adjusted knowledge ini was paired with this older "brother" when i was a teenager.
he was very very strange.
he was a nice guy but goofy.
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We had one sister tell an experience of her making a return visit at 05:30 AM to make sure the householder was at home, as she had not been able to get hold of him for quite a while. You can't make this up. -
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Today's Special Day Assembly Expenses and the $10,499 Deficit. Silent Majority?
by Tenacious intoday i attended a one-day assembly in my hometown.
i knew when it came time to read the afternoon expenses that it would be an incredibly high and ridiculous amount that was nowhere near the real expenses for that day.
sure enough, after lunch came the announcement.
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The reasons they continue to have assemblies is that these are a major profit center. Good to hear only $500 was donated. I think many are subcontiously starting to realize it is a scam for money. -
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What if an entire class of baptismal candidates said "NO"?
by bradford inquestion 1 comes and the speaker asks for their response..they all yell no!.
what would happen then?.
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It would be better to answer the first question with yes but the second one with a load NO -
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"Getting Baptized Is A Protection...."
by dubstepped ini'm sure that most of us heard that line when we were young.
i never could convince myself of that, other than that it hung a blade over my head that would then be on the chopping block should i err in some way and thus they would be protected from me, but i also knew that i needed to do so anyway.
otherwise i'd be a pariah if i got older and didn't take the step, and i wanted to be good in their eyes.
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It is a similar threat that the Catholic Church gives to parents if their baby isn't baptized...then it cannot go to heaven if it dies.
The JWs are in many ways not too different from the churches they despise.
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TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again
by Designer Stubble inguess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.
david spane does his best to explain it again.
the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.
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runforever - You are 100% correct on this comment:
So one generation is from 1893 to 2015 and counting? 122 years so far?
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TV.JW.ORG (September 2015): Serving Single - Do not use JW dating sites!
by Designer Stubble inaround the 39:00 minute mark the focus shifts to a single sister who cannot find a mate.
at the 42:30 minute mark she states "i cannot believe it crossed my mind...to look on jw dating sites".
guess a new unwritten rule is added to the many oral traditions of these pharisees.
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Around the 39:00 minute mark the focus shifts to a single sister who cannot find a mate. At the 42:30 minute mark she states "I cannot believe it crossed my mind...to look on JW dating sites". Guess a new unwritten rule is added to the many oral traditions of these Pharisees. And more persons forced to remain single.
Oh, but there is great comfort. At the 44:00 minute mark: "Focusing on the ministry work can be of great comfort"
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TV.JW.ORG (September 2015) - Generation explained again
by Designer Stubble inguess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend.
david spane does his best to explain it again.
the cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that fred franz died.
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Guess the overlapping generation concept is difficult for most to comprehend. David Spane does his best to explain it again. The cutoff date for this generation has now moved to 1992 (was once 1935), the year that Fred Franz died. Therefore now is not the time to become weary - the end is right around the corner.