Posts by jonathan adabe

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2007 Service Report

by jonathan adabe in

is anyone able to supply a printable copy of the 2007 service report to help me in my statistical research?

at present i have all reports from 1990 to 2006 for all countries and it would be helpful if someone could provide the 2007 figures in printable form.

i no longer have a local witness contact.

In my view the 2006 Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses titled 'Deliverance at Hand' was an attempt to stop the dramatic fall in membership over the previous 10 years. Fear of an early Armageddon was the carrot which was to draw more people into the Organization. For example, The Canadian active members for the 5 years 1992 to 1996 was increased by a total of 9244 (even though there were 20697 new baptisms). Yet during the following 10 years, 1997 to 2006 there was a reduction in active membership of -2617 in spite of new baptisms of 24089. Coupled with this there was a falling off of door-to-door work by nearly 2 hours per month per member. This pattern was copied throughout most nations during that 15 year period.

The publishing of expectancy of an Armageddon in 1975 led to vast increases in membership, and that type of expectancy was used again in 2006 which has shown some increases during the 2007 Service Year. Adding the new baptisms for the 15 year period (44,786) compared with the increase of active members during the same 15 years (+6627), meant that there was the equivalent of a loss of 38,000 from the membership. The overall pattern is that the Society have problems in retaining new members.

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A New Blog About Jehovah's Witnesses

by DT in

jehovah's witnesses, shunning, and human rights.

http://watchtowershunning.blogspot.com/.

i don't have a lot of information there yet, but i'll gradually add articles in the future.

jonathan adabe

To put the numbers of partakers of bread & wine into context, the average Memorial attendance is 174 persons in each Congregation. Only one person will partake for every 11 Congregations. In my view there is a relaxing of the 'rules' about who should partake because Watchtower literature states that many of the 'anointed' will see Armageddon. They will not be allowed to die off!

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HERE'S THE 2007 SERVICE YEAR REPORT

by Mary in

i'm not sure if this has been posted yet, so i took the liberty of scanning a copy.

here is the figures for the 2007 service year report.

interesting that over 9,000 partook at the memorial last year when the numbers should be going down.

jonathan adabe

Mrs Smith's comments (19 Feb) about South Africa and the increases there can be supplemented by the following data: During the 10years including 2007, there were 39978 Baptisms but only an increase of 16919 in active publishers (door-to-door workers), so they lost 58% of their new members! Some would be natural wastage, but the Society is finding it difficult to hold on to the full extent of the increases.

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Latest Watchtower Magazine Increases Odds of Surviving Armageddon!

by TooBad TooSad in

99% of all jw's believe and are taught that to survive armageddon that you must be a jw or as a minimum be.

associated with the jw's.

however the april 1 "public" issue of the watchtower has some interesting wording.

jonathan adabe

Children and babies don't escape the destruction of Armageddon if their parents have failed to take them into the 'Ark of Safety' ie The Organization. That has been their teaching up to the present and they publish articles to justify the deaths of those children and babies. The justification is that the parents are responsible to bring them into the Organization. Can a Jehovah-led Governing Body now change its mind? I think the Governing Body has got itself in a doctrinal mess.

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Membership numbers

by pjj62 in

does anyone know if the jw membership is increasing or decreasing?

a local paper in my area did a large study on relegions.

one of the intresting facts pointed out that the jw have losing members for the past ten years.

jonathan adabe

Hi pjj62, There are steady increases in active members (publishers). During the last 10 years there were 2772,861 new Baptisms into the Organization. During the same period there was an increase in active membership of 1,338,712. That's a loss of almost half of their new baptisms. Allowing for natural wastage the Organization still struggles to keep new ones in. The increases are mainly in Africa, Central and South America. Western nations are becoming a smaller percentage of the total as years go by.

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Has anyone figured out the U.S. "growth" without Alaska?

by OnTheWayOut in

i haven't stopped to really examine this, but i keep hearing that the u.s. figures for .

3% growth last year included alaska (and hawaii?

2007- either alaska and u.s. had [a + u] publishers plus growth .

jonathan adabe

Incidently the Alaska figures for 2004, 2005, 2006 showed negative growths of minus 0.58%, minus 2.92%, and minus 0.88%.

There are no published data for Alaska in 2007.

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Has anyone figured out the U.S. "growth" without Alaska?

by OnTheWayOut in

i haven't stopped to really examine this, but i keep hearing that the u.s. figures for .

3% growth last year included alaska (and hawaii?

2007- either alaska and u.s. had [a + u] publishers plus growth .

jonathan adabe

The USA growth (including Alaska) was 3.18%
Remove Alaska (assuming no change to 2006 data) USA growth would show 3.19%
Add all three, USA, Alaska, Hawaii and overall growth would be 3.17%

The small numbers of Alaska and Hawaii do not affect the results of the huge USA numbers.

Hope this helps. Based on Average Publishers not Peak numbers. JA

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HERE'S THE 2007 SERVICE YEAR REPORT

by Mary in

i'm not sure if this has been posted yet, so i took the liberty of scanning a copy.

here is the figures for the 2007 service year report.

interesting that over 9,000 partook at the memorial last year when the numbers should be going down.

jonathan adabe

Based on 'Peak Publishers' data for 2007 versus 1992 there has been a surge of increase in 3rd world countries compared with Western nations :- In 1992 the West had 44% of Peak membership versus 56% for 3rd world countries;

In 2007 the West had 33% of Peak membership versus 69% for 3rd world countries;

It is interesting to note that in 2007 there were increases (Peak figures) compared with 2006 :- Africa +5.0%
Asia +4.6%
Sth & Cntrl America +4.3%
North America +2.1%
Western Europe +1.5%
Scandinavia +0.3%
Hours per Peak Publisher (including Aux/Reg Pioneers) The West 15.4 hrs/month
The Rest 18.0 hrs/month

(Personal thought :- Does the poverty, sickness and generally poorer circumstances in 3rd world countries make them more receptive
to the promises of an early Armageddon and Paradise Earth? )

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2007 Service Report

by jonathan adabe in

is anyone able to supply a printable copy of the 2007 service report to help me in my statistical research?

at present i have all reports from 1990 to 2006 for all countries and it would be helpful if someone could provide the 2007 figures in printable form.

i no longer have a local witness contact.

jonathan adabe

To Orbison 11, Yes, leaks will follow! I am currently working on some interesting data on the 'Peak' figures, which should be available in a few days. JA

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2007 Service Report

by jonathan adabe in

is anyone able to supply a printable copy of the 2007 service report to help me in my statistical research?

at present i have all reports from 1990 to 2006 for all countries and it would be helpful if someone could provide the 2007 figures in printable form.

i no longer have a local witness contact.

jonathan adabe

Thanks a lot Len. Much appreciated, JA