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  Watchtower Releases 2017 Grand Total Figures!

  by darkspilver in

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  2. friends

  2017 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 90. .

  number of lands reporting: 240. .

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  The numbers are on the Website now:)

  FYI

  Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 18,564

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2017-service-year-report/2017-grand-totals/

  2017 Grand Totals

  • Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 90

  • Number of Lands Reporting: 240

  • Total Congregations: 120,053

  • Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 20,175,477

  • Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 18,564

  • Peak of Publishers *: 8,457,107

  • Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 8,248,982

  • Percentage of Increase Over 2016: 1.4

  • Total Number Baptized *: 284,212

  • Average Pioneer * Publishers Each Month: 1,249,946

  • Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 439,571

  • Total Hours Spent in Field: 2,046,000,202

  • Average Bible Studies * Each Month: 10,071,524

    COMPARISON FOR ANYONE ONE INTERESTED

    From 2016:

    Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 89

    Number of Lands Reporting: 240

    Total Congregations: 119,485

    Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 20,085,142

    Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 18,013

    Peak of Publishers in Kingdom Service: 8,340,847

    Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 8,132,358

    Percentage of Increase Over 2015: 1.8

    Total Number Baptized: 264,535

    Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 459,393

    Average Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 1,157,017

    Total Hours Spent in Field: 1,983,763,754

    Average Bible Studies Each Month: 10,115,264
    
    

    From 2015:

    Branches of Jehovah’s Witnesses: 89

    Number of Lands Reporting: 240

    Total Congregations: 118,016

    Worldwide Memorial Attendance: 19,862,783

    Memorial Partakers Worldwide: 15,177

    Peak of Publishers in Kingdom Service: 8,220,105

    Average Publishers Preaching Each Month: 7,987,279

    Percentage of Increase Over 2014: 1.5

    Total Number Baptized: 260,273

    Average Auxiliary Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 443,504

    Average Pioneer Publishers Each Month: 1,135,210

    Total Hours Spent in Field: 1,933,473,727

    Average Home Bible Studies Each Month: 9,708,968
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  Is this life all there is?

  by Fisherman in

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  what do you sincerely think?

  do you nurture any hope?.

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  Sadly yes this is it.

  In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
  - Carl Sagan
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  What if the crucifixion never took place..

  by Jayk in

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  i googled it and pretty much my understanding is the same as what i imagine.

  no one really knows, your guess is as good as the next.

  interesting thought to consider imo..

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  It didnt.
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  2017 Service Year Report Grand Totals

  by Drearyweather in

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  2017 figures released to bethel families worldwide:.

  peak publishers: 8,457,107. total baptized: 284,212 .

  regular pioneers: 1,225,279 .

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  7,200 hrs for every new person baptized.
  That is = to 900 full (8hr) working days.
  Or 180 full work weeks.
  Or about 3 1/2 full years of a full-time job.

  Man doG has a horrible offering.
  You would think his deal would be easy to accept.
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  2017 Service Year Report Grand Totals

  by Drearyweather in

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  2. friends

  2017 figures released to bethel families worldwide:.

  peak publishers: 8,457,107. total baptized: 284,212 .

  regular pioneers: 1,225,279 .

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  Anyone know how many are Partaking?
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

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  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  punkofnice - hard not to have that same attitude.

  50 years stolen is what it comes down to.
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  Do You Feels That Your Life Was Ruined Because of Ypur JW Experience?

  by minimus in

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  i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.

  have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.

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  I would say parts of my life were.
  Now I have 2 amazing daughters which was a major reason we left instead of just perpetually being a PIMO.

  Being in for about 5 decades meant losing out on the life I should have had.
  Has meant losing just about all my friends I thought I had.

  I am messed up in many ways because of the cult.
  I think the hardest is having really believed in Everlasting life, and now knowing I will die really die in a few decades.

  Because of the 2 kids I have that are my world, I would not redo my life if I could though.
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  Romans 2:21,22 Matthew 23:3 and the hypocrsity of the November 2017 Broadcast!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  hypocrites!

  i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.

  please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.

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  jp1692

  Yes, stuck is right, I mean any outside quote. Like the recent on used to show how the WT doesn't use propaganda.

  ANY outside quote is suspect, and if you ever see (...) in a quote, you know the have misquoted the person.
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  Should private citizens be allowed to video record law enforcement?

  by Fisherman in

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  i saw an article in the news yesterday that laws are going to be passed subjecting the police to being recorded by anyone while performing their duty or enforcing the law and encourages citizens to sue if they interfere.

  some law enforcement agents become angry and confiscate recording devices from people recording them while making an arrest, etc.. it does seem that the work that the police and other government agents do is public and not private or confidential so there should be nothing to hide from the cameras.

  on the other hand, how can one distinguish being shot by a camera or by a weapon until one is hit?.

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  Are you joking??? YES!!!!
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  Romans 2:21,22 Matthew 23:3 and the hypocrsity of the November 2017 Broadcast!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. scandals

  hypocrites!

  i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.

  please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.

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  I had a conversation about it with a VERY IN family member.

  Just pointed out that it's not a religious or opinion based thing.

  All you have to do is Google the quotes to find them in their original document, and see for your self, but that the GB knows that JWs won't do it.