thank you Blondie!
The signs:" Read God's Word the Holy Bible Daily" and " Read The Watchtower and Awake!" are on the 117 Adams Street building ( Bldg 1) facing Sands Street.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 09-26-10 WT Study (DEEP THINGS)
by blondie in.. the deep things of god.
comments.
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Percentage of publishers that are baptized?
by Gayle inand how old does a "publisher" (one that turns in a 'report') have to be?
i forget how that works.. most churches require their members to be baptized to be counted.
but jws count publishers, though maybe not baptized, so that would be a lot of their children.. i do see the percentage of jws baptisms are clearly decreasing, though their "publishers" percentage they claim are increasing..
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Believe it or not there was a year where over 375,000 got baptized!
But all have to be regularly reporting as publishers before they can be baptized.
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Percentage of publishers that are baptized?
by Gayle inand how old does a "publisher" (one that turns in a 'report') have to be?
i forget how that works.. most churches require their members to be baptized to be counted.
but jws count publishers, though maybe not baptized, so that would be a lot of their children.. i do see the percentage of jws baptisms are clearly decreasing, though their "publishers" percentage they claim are increasing..
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factfinder
To qualify for baptism you first must be a publisher. I think I read once that 25 % of witnesses were not yet baptized.
A comparison between the increase in publishers with that of baptisms is not accurate because the peak and average publisher figures already include those that were baptized that year. For instance, the 2010 YB reports a peak of 7,313,173 publishers for the 2009 service year. Of those, 276,233 got baptized during that service year. Those newly baptized ones are already counted in the publishers figure as you cannot be baptized unless you have already been a regular publisher reporting your field service for at least 6 consecutuive months prior to your baptism. I became a publisher in 1976 but did not get baptized until 1978. So I was already reporting field service each month and was counted as a publisher in the peak publisher figure for the 1977 SY and from 1978 on.
I think if someone can give a presentation at the door by themselves, they are old enough to become publishers. Age may vary, it's up to the service commitee but I knew kids as young as 9 and ten reporting as publishers.
I hope this helps answer your question.
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I didn't even know i WAS an apostate!
by GrandmaJones ini am currently just sick with grief.
i can't believe this is happening to me.
all the jokes i've made about me never "falling out of the truth" and self confidence about my spirituality.
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Welcome!
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Length of Meetings - what do they total per week now?
by Little Imp in.
the meetings used to be three times a week and totalled five hours.. the public talk on a sunday was reduced from one hour to three quarters of an hour whilst we were still attending and then following our fade we were aware that the tuesday night group book study was stopped.. does this now mean the meetings total three and three quarter hours?.
my husband was asking me this morning and i wasn't sure so wondered if anyone can help me out here.. thanks.. li.
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I remember the 15 minute break between the PT and WT Study! They said they discontinued it because too many were leaving during the break and not staying for the WT.
If I was still going I'd be glad the meetings were condensed/shortend. I always wanted the WT study shortened. It was too dragged out and boring.
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Great news - Bethel in my country is closing down...
by Albert Einstein inhere in czech republic wtbs opened new bethel home for some 60 workers about 18 years ago.
it was presented as a proof jhvh is blessing and aproving wtbs and of course as a sign that the end is so close.... recently i had with my mil discusions about wtbs selling their property in many countries and cuting costs... she did not believe me..... last week we went to visit her and she told me there was an anouncment at her meeting, that bethel is closing down and the building will be sold.
only translating department will remain in the country in other premises and everything else will be moved to slovakia.. recently there is bethel closing down in spain and italy and several assembly halls being sold here in europe.. i hope this will open eyes to many jw to see the gb in fact does not believe in end being so close .... albert.
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Jehovah is backing and blessing his organization so the needed funds keep coming in! The WT facilities will continue to expand due to Jehovah's blessing and the ever increasing demand for more literature and Bible studies! As we get closer to the end there will be major increases in country after country!
Guess the end must be far off.
Thanks for sharing this news with us. The Italy branch is closing too? Jehovah just keeps on blessing his organization and keeps bringing in the increase!
The WTS is on its way down.
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factfinder
Lots of interesting thoughts here!
I remember at the 1980 Divine Love Convention it was stated God became a creator because he wanted to share his love with us.
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January Watchtower sets ambitious target for growth!
by slimboyfat inindividual action toward increase.
7 when we look at our task and the results thus far, the per cent increase for all nations on the average is splendid; but if we are going to see kingdom interests increase as we have never seen it before, what must we do during the year 2011?
individually, we cannot bring in a half a publisher or a third of a publisher, but we can, as publishers of the new world, aid another creature to understand gods purposes, help him in going out in the work, grounding him well in the truth, and letting him see his privilege of being a minister of the most high to join in this great shout like that of thunder and sing praises that jehovah is king.
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This article is not real and is not up on the jw.org site.
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Can You Now Clearly See That You Were In A Cult?
by minimus inthe longer away from "the truth", the easier it is to see that i was in a "cult"..
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Yes!
Ding- Thank you for those good points- so very true.
Minimus, essan and mimimimi- I agree 100%.
I could not see it as a cult while I was in it. There were a lot of things wrong, I saw more and more as the years went by. Being away from the meetings and discovering this site opened my eyes to what the WTS really is and I thank everyone on this board for helping me to see how things really are. JWs are a mind controlling cult. It's sad and difficult to deal with it. But it has become so much clearer. And especially with the bold statements the GB keep making in The Watchtower. The Sept. 15 WT was unbelievable. They just keep getting worse and worse. I deeply regret having been in that deceitful cult for most of my adult life.
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hi i am new here
by dawntodaylight ini had started studying with jw because i was curious about the religion because my bf then(now husband) was a witness.
i am a very open minded person and really had i known what i know now i prob would not have been baptized.
i always had my doubts but i really enjoyed the positive aspects that i was learning at the meetings...i studied with my mom in law.i prob shouldn't have done that because she has taken it very personal that we have stopped and even had the nerve to say i started studying to get in good with the fam!!
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Welcome!