Germany- 321 Congregations Dissolved/Merged...

by Newly Enlightened 5 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Newly Enlightened

  The German government requires Watchtower to publish their own demise. Any changes to congregations has to be published on their website.

  https://www.jehovaszeugen.de/Amtsblatt.44.0.html

  Since 2006 321 congregations have been dissolved and merged into others.

  
  

  They have also sold 135 Kingdom Halls since 2011. There is also a pdf spreadsheet on our website with all the names of the congregations, links to past year's changes on the jw.org website etc : http://www.watchtower.exposed/oktoberfest-watchtowers-demise/
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  sir82

  Yeah, that is their global "master plan" - consolidate congregations into larger units, squeeze more congregations into each Kingdom Hall, and sell of the now unneeded Kingdom Halls.
  
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  EverApostate

  Jah is speeding up his chariot, starting from Germany
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  Corney

  - 300, not 321, congregations were merged

  - During the same period, 194 new congregations were created

  - In fact, we don't know whether all 135 KHs were sold. Some KHs could be rented (so they couldn't be sold), their methodology could be changed etc.
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  careful

  Thx for the info. It would be interesting to see similar stats from other countries that in the past were "success stories" but have had similar downturns like Mexico and Japan.

  But Corney, what was the status of those newly created congs? Were they examples of a "new" cong C formed from the now defunct congs A and B? Or maybe a cong D formed from old congs A, B, and C? Could they be at least partly because of immigration, a huge issue in Germany? How can one know such details? New names could reflect the changing realities of territorial adjustments or just a broader geographical name that encompasses more area. Who knows?
  
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  Corney

  careful,

  >> Were they examples of a "new" cong C formed from the now defunct congs A and B? Or maybe a cong D formed from old congs A, B, and C?

  They totally weren't

  >> How can one know such details? New names could reflect the changing realities of territorial adjustments or just a broader geographical name that encompasses more area. Who knows?

  Did you open the first link in the OP? Notices of renaming are published separately.

  >> Could they be at least partly because of immigration, a huge issue in Germany?

  Or of Watchtower's expansion into new fields. Yes. >95℅ of created congregations are foreign- or sign-language.