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  Foreign language publishers and congregations in the United States

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  in collecting the baptism figures for the u.s. i was reading through the yearbooks and came across an interesting paragraph.

  in the 2007 yearbook page 16 it says the u.s. has 254,00 publishers in spanish speaking congregations and 26,000 in other languages.

  it also had the figure of a total of 3,742 foreign language congregations.. that figures out to 30% of the total u.s. congregations are foreign language.

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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

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  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  Watchtower financial yearbook statements 1989-2016

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  since the 2016 yearbook yearbook was released i've been tearing through the numbers, trying to figure a few things out.

  i have several different projects i'm working on, and this is one of them.

  i looked through all the yearbooks from the 1989 one through 2016, the only thing they really state about money is how much they spent on; special pioneers, missionaries, and traveling overseers.

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  What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?

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  my amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!

  he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.

  anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?

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  Switching Halls

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  it's time for me and the mrs. to get the hell outta dodge.

  recently my hall has undergone major management changes and the atmosphere is..less than ideal.

  i'm getting multiple calls a week asking to set up a time to meet, i've politely declined but these guys aren't taking a hint.

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  Long Time Lurker

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  it took a few years but i finally decided to join yesterday.

  my background, born-in, still go to meetings for family reasons, i am inactive however.

  if you were to ask when i first woke up i would say 2010 with the overlapping generation garbage.

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