In December of 2000, I was told by a very reliable poster from h2o and from this board who had inside contacts, that between 1998 and 2000, more than 20,000 elders had stepped away from being elders.
I am also very familiar with being 'forced out' because I grew up in the borg and became an elder in 1992. I was 'forced out' in 1999 because I stood up for justice and for what was right. 30 people from the congregation provided evidence to an investigation committee as well as to the service dept and the gb and to jr brown and to robert pevy and to robert wallen and to a host of other wts officials that what was being done to me was totally wrong. The evidence did not matter.
Elders continue to leave because of bullsh!@#$%* like that!
Worf ( A veteran in the war against jaracz and the illusion known as the wts.)