What age were you when you were counted as a publisher?

OrphanCrow

The WTS has always included minors and adults in the same categories - publisher and baptized.

I am interested in knowing how many minors, approximately, are included in the publisher count. And, at what age a person started publishing. What age was the youngest publisher reported?

For those who were baptized, too, at what age did you get baptized?

I was never baptized but, years ago when I was a kid, most born-ins got baptized in their mid teens. And the publisher count had almost as many minors as it did adults. Has that changed?

Steel

I have seen 4 and 5 year olds counted prior to a CO visit. Its a great way to get the numbers up.

Sail Away

Publisher at 10; baptized at 16 (My non-JW dad made me wait, otherwise I would have been babtized years earlier.)

My mother told me that I was going from door to door alone in our neighborhood at 4 years old. I don't know exactly when I was counted as a publisher because my mother always made out my time slip when I was little. My guess would be that I was counted as a publisher at around 8 years old. Baptized at 15 on January 30, 1971 at a Circuit Assembly in Nashua, N.H. and the rest, as they say, 'is history'.....................

DesirousOfChange

Pub at 5 or 6, dunked at 10.

Pete Zahut

I was around 5 when I started counting time and giving talks and got baptized at 17. I can still remember the introduction of my first talk.

Village Idiot

Not a born in. Converted at 14; publisher at 14; baptized at 15.

I still remember my first day in field service. My first rejecting "householder" and the elder I was studying with at my side.

schnell

One elder who'd like to have a certain conversation with me was proud that his youngest daughter got baptized at the last assembly. She must be 8 or 9, home schooled, this is all she knows, and he's proud that she agreed to an oral contract for the rest of her life. He was happy to tell me this.

NVR2L8

Publisher at 6 and baptized at 14.