2017 figures released to bethel families worldwide:.
peak publishers: 8,457,107. total baptized: 284,212 .
regular pioneers: 1,225,279 .
Most churches are declining and would be more than happy with a "smaller increase than last year".
Methodists in Scotland for example decreased by 6% last year and Church of Scotland by 5%. Those are the sorts of figures that cause real panic in some churches, because if they continue there will be no church within a couple of decades.
A "smaller increase than last year" for JWs is hardly something they will worry about.
I am surprised. I expected them to decrease this year.
2017 figures released to bethel families worldwide:.
peak publishers: 8,457,107. total baptized: 284,212 .
regular pioneers: 1,225,279 .
I know it's easier, but the increase is over last year, when the same conditions pertained. And to be honest, I would have thought pioneering would be boring these days, standing around doing nothing much of the time, accomplishing nothing much, encountering nobody interesting except maybe a couple of angry apostates, if you're lucky. And pioneer numbers have been increasing for decades now. It has to reach a limit at some point.
2017 figures released to bethel families worldwide:.
peak publishers: 8,457,107. total baptized: 284,212 .
regular pioneers: 1,225,279 .
Also interested to know number branches, if down from 89 last year.
Given the peak figure, it's difficult to see how there could be a decrease in average publishers this year.
I am amazed that JWs are still increasing to be honest.
But the figure I am most interested in is number of congregations.
I'm also amazed that more and more JWs are becoming pioneers. It tends to undermine the idea that JWs are becoming increasingly skeptical. Unless there is a bifurcation taking place between JW skeptics on the periphery and hardcore JWs who are becoming more committed.
Morris promised the figures would be published on the website "as soon as they are available".
the greek bethel at 77 kifisias avenue, marousi, athens, is up for sale.
below is the sales video:https://vimeo.com/242230932see also: http://www.danos.gr/property-sale-in-marousi/.
from the bethel tour brochure:.
It's not a still picture. Maybe it didn't play properly for you.
I just find something a bit crass about the same music that was used to inspire JWs to join and support "Kingdom work" also being used in a sales pitch for the closing down sale.
Yes I've joined various groups:
Methodists
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5739296750305280/slimboyfat-joins-methodists
Christadelphians
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4916534222782464/slimboyfat-joins-christadelphians
Unitarians
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5129720561664000/slimboyfat-joins-unitarians
Seventh-Day Adventists
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6678930197053440/slimboyfat-joins-seventh-day-adventists
Church of Scotland
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5049011964739584/slimboyfat-joins-church-scotland
Jehovah's Witnesses (again)
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5453829074059264/slimboyfat-rejoins-jehovahs-witnesses
Mormons
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5088760412766208/slimboyfat-joins-mormons
the greek bethel at 77 kifisias avenue, marousi, athens, is up for sale.
below is the sales video:https://vimeo.com/242230932see also: http://www.danos.gr/property-sale-in-marousi/.
from the bethel tour brochure:.
They're using Kingdom melodies to advertise branches they are selling because they have declining membership and diminishing funds?
Are they closing the branch in Greece completely?
I wonder how many branches will be left when they are done. Assuming there are still branches at all and the whole thing doesn't go under.
hypocrites!
i know we have spoken of this before, but in light of the appaling november 2017 jwdotorg broadcast, these scriptures just need to be highlighted!.
please re-read them, and tell me if they don't apply to the society !?!.
Maybe it was the last ever broadcast and they felt like going out with an ironic bang.
... because she'd stepped into some newly laid concrete.. i said to her, "don't be too hard on yourself.
".
Why did the cat run away from the tree?
It was afraid of the bark.
... because she'd stepped into some newly laid concrete.. i said to her, "don't be too hard on yourself.
".
I told my wife she drew her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.
december 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
wiki has the elders school been leaked? I thought I saw a thread the other day and now I can't find it.
