How Many Elders And Ministerial Servants Are There In Your Congregation?

Village Idiot

I'm curious to see how much manpower a little congregation - a hundred? - requires to keep it running.

zophar

There are 3 elders and 6 MS in the local congregation.

LevelThePlayingField

There are roughly 95 pubs in my cong and have 4 ms and 5 elders.

humblepotato

60 Publishers

4 Elders

4 Ministerial Servants (only two are really used)

The last time I was at my KH/cong. of my youth, it was a little over 20 years ago. Back then in a congregation of about 120 publishers, there was 10 to 12 elders, and 12 - 15 MS's. I heard that NOW, 20 years later, there are only about 75 publishers, and 6 elders, and 6 MS's.

Understand, too, that this is a congregation that is in one of the boroughs of NYC, where they have access to bethelites, and others to "fill in the ranks". Looks like a huge decline, on all levels, if ya ask me.

karter

In my old congro they kept lowering the bar to be an Elder or M.S so there were plenty but quality was at best questionable.

Karter.

sir82

12 elders & 6 MS

That ratio is becoming very common, and spells major trouble for the future of the WTS.

Elders are getting older and become limited in what they can do, or die off, or get deleted. And there aren't enough replacements.

For example, of that group of 6 MS, only one has the potential to be an elder one day. And of the 12 elders, only 4 are under age 63. I.e., within 10 years, the congregation will collapse (unless there is an influx of new elders moving in).

alanv

I think its true to say, that if a cong is a bit short of elders or mini servants, they just lower the bar a bit. Its not as if they need to use their brain a lot for the work they do, as the Watchtower lays out exactly what they should do.

TheOldHippie

60 JWs, 5 elders, 1 MS