2006 SERVICE REPORT - Feb 1, 2007 WT

by Mary 100 Replies latest jw friends

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  Mary

  I'm not sure if anyone's posted this yet, but here are the figures for the 2006 Service Report. I highlighted the countries that have either a "0" or negative growth in yellow and I highlighted key countries where the you would expect more growth......I tried looking for England's stats, but I couldn't see it. I looked under "England" and "United Kingdom" but I can't see it. Can anyone else?

  All in all the figures are pretty dismal. They spent 1,333,966,199 hours preaching, yet the average number of publishers---which is the religions goal to increase----only increased by just over 100,000 from 2005's report. There were 248,327 baptised in 2006, so shouldn't there have been an increase of 248,327 publishers? If I'm reading this right, there seems to be 146,594 publishers that have gone AWOL in 2006.

  The total irony of this report is the cover of the February 2007 Awake! magazine which is at the very end. For once, I think they got it right, although that building could just as easily be the Kingdumb Halls.

  

  

  

  

  
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  jgnat

  Ha! Look under "Britain".
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  dedpoet

  Hi Mary,

  Someone did post this a week or so ago, but repetition is good when the news for the wts is bad, My personal favourite statistic is the 234 rise in the number of memorial partakers, I hope to get the opportunity to ask a few jw about that one, although none of them around here speak to me. Ther are a few jws at work who don't know me so well, so they can get ready lol.

  The UK is under Britain, for some reason. I guess the wts like to be differrent, and there has been a 1% rise here, apparently, although they baptised 2535 kids of jws new converts last year, but the number of jws only rose by 1346, so 1189 jws either died, went inactive or left altogether last year.

  They may have experienced a slight increase worldwide, but we all knw they baptise mainly kids nowadays, and they aren't guaranteed to stay once they grow up, so it's tough times ahead in jwland, whatever their stats say.
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  Mary

  Ha! Look under "Britain".

  D'OH !!!
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  Amazing

  Hi Mary,

  England is under "B" for Britain. I first tried Great Britain, but I guess the Society does not think that merry old England is all that great! Anyway, a couple of others did post the report. But I am enjoying going through your highlights, as it is very telling of what is going on in Watchtower growth and non-growth.

  Jim Whitney

  PS: Whoops, it looks like you already learned about "Britain" while I was typing my post.
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  Nosferatu

  YAY for Canada with 0% increase!
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  dozy

  The UK is listed under Britain for the same reason as Eire is listed under Ireland - London Bethel is responsible for the island of Britain (England , Scotland & Wales) & the Dublin branch is responsible for the island of Ireland (ie including Northern Ireland). The WTS doesn't seemed to have recognised the 1922 partition.
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  Mary

  Thank you to all who pointed out that England is under "Britian".

  YAY for Canada with 0% increase!

  No kidding eh? That means that 19,000,000 hours didn't do ANY good whatsoever. I thought Jehovah was supposed to "speed it up" at The End......
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  RunningMan

  I notice that the number of baptisms decreased by 14,000. This is lowest since 1988.

  Indeed, God is "slowing things down in his own due time". Clearly, the work is nearly done. The door will soon be closed. I'm already practicing gnashing my teeth.
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  Mary

  The door will soon be closed. I'm already practicing gnashing my teeth.

  Ya, I've been polishing up on my weeping and trying to find my way in the Outer Darkness....