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Fast Facts-Worldwide
236—Lands where Jehovah’s Witnesses preach
540—Languages in which we publish Bibles and Bible-based literature
109,403—Congregations
7,395,672—Ministers who teach the Bible
19,000,000—People who attend our meetings or conventions
166,000,000—Bibles published by Jehovah’s Witnesses in 108 languages
20,000,000,000—Pieces of Bible-based literature published by Jehovah’s Witnesses over the past ten years
23 Answers
- 9 years ago
For those who say the numbers are wrong, JW are against lying.
For example, for those who say its 196 countries, according to who? That is the real question...
http://geography.about.com/cs/countries/a/numberco...
I researched it and in just a minute online I found out why the diference. Don't find fault where there is no fault.
JW are a righteous people in general and they love eachother and they love their neighbor and above all they love their God Jehovah. Ridiculers are just that. The numbers speak for themselves. there are plenty of JW out there. In everycountry. THey are doing what Jesus said would be done before the end and that is part of the signs of the conclusion of the system of things. WHose side are we going to be on when the end finaly comes?
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Source(s): the bible - 9 years ago
<< Matthew 24:14 >>
New International Version (©1984)
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
What do I think? The end time Must be very close
- NoNameLv 69 years ago
Shows Jehovah is making the good news of his kingdom known throughout the earth. Some will give links saying we are exaggerating but upon looking into the link, it says that it's not official, that is debated every day. Others compare us to the Catholic Church as say their numbers are impressive. Sure if Jehovah was looking for quantity. Too bad for them, he looks at quality.
No other religion is preaching about Jehovah's Kingdom, the message of good news said would be preached. Jehovah's Witnesses have shouldered the responsibility and the numbers prove it's happening no matter what the nah sayers desire.
- fixerkenLv 79 years ago
What it really shows is that the preaching work is governed by God's Holy Spirit(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
(2 Timothy 4:2) preach the word, be at it urgently in favorable season, in troublesome season, reprove, reprimand, exhort, with all long-suffering and [art of] teaching.
(Matthew 28:19, 20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20Â teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU. And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”
- Anonymous9 years ago
Not at all impressed JWs
"The greatest preaching work of all have been by the Catholic Church, who boast over 1 billion members, and who virtually all other Christian groups owe their existence to. This work continues to our day and at catholicmission.org (23 July 2006) quotes Pope John Paul II as saying "I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes (to the nations.)" The site outlines the joy of joining in with spreading the message of Christ".
"The preaching work conducted by Jehovah's Witnesses is becoming less and less effective. A simple evaluation of the yearly report shows that it takes 5000 hours of witnessing per baptism (1 billion witnessing hours in 2004 resulted in only 200,000 baptisms). If you take the figure of 200,000 and halve it for those born in the truth and then halve it again to account for those reached in informal witnessing an even more realistic figure would be 20,000 hours of door-to-door work for one convert. That is the equivalent of 166 people doing 10 hours each a month for a year. The 2011 Publisher report lists countries where Witnesses are banned under the category "30 Other Lands". Highlighted in red, these make up 16% of the earth's land surface, and account for 1.9 billion people, or 27% of the earth's population. Despite this, last year saw a peak of only 26,272 publishers across these countries combined, which is less than 1 in every 72,000 people".
Source(s): http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/preach.php - redvip2000Lv 59 years ago
Well, now let's compare these numbers with the fruits it brings.
20,000,000,000 pieces of literature made in the last 10 years, plus billions of hours spend preaching. Now, in the last 10 years there was an increase of 1 million members.
Out of these 1 million new members, it's safe to assume that about 95 percent of them come into the brotherhood because of someone they knew and NOT because of preaching.
DID I SAY 95 percent? Yup....but if you think i'm wrong simply think about 20 or 30 jehovah witnesses you know and figure which ones came into the religion because of family of friends ties and who came into the religion due to door to door preaching......
So out of this million, let's say that 50 000 were the result of preaching. To me this tells me that millions of trees were slaughtered and billions of hours wasted for such little result.
One must wonder how, before the Watchtower was created, christianity was expanded to the four corners of the world without the need to print these useless pamphlets and this organized preaching..
JW preaching = Colossal waste of time.
- 9 years ago
I think it is a true testament to the truth Jehovah's Witness share.
Despite the efforts of Satan or his spawn like Lung Boy they can not hold back the truth.
Like Satan they know their time is short.
- 9 years ago
Hi there
Its pretty impressive for only 7.5 million people.
@Lungboy
There are 196 countries. But there are 60 more territories, colonies, and dependencies of Independent Countries.
But look closely, the asker said "236—Lands where Jehovah’s Witnesses preach", not countries.
You who oppose the Jehovah's Witnesses are the funniest of people.
- ?Lv 69 years ago
No one else is preaching in every country in THE WORLD, and bringing the good news of Gods kingdom into their lives.
There are many that are not saved, I was a non believer, and in the 22 years I never had one single person from any church call on my home, talk to me in the street, I used to work with 8 so called born agains, and NEVER did any one of them attempt to help me get saved.
It was not until one of JW's called on me in my home that I looked into the Bible. There are million's out there they do not believe, or are from non christian religions that need to be saved, who else is going to help them !!!!
Paul said, "woe is me if I do not preach the gospel" 1 Cor 9:16 NIV
1 Tim 4:16 "Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you."
See "Who are God’s true worshipers on earth today"?
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teac...
EDIT. To those that say that they do not believe this or that they think it is fabricated is a testimony to how extensive our "preaching to all the nations before the end comes" is doing !! Matt 24:14
AUGUST 15, 2012 | GLOBAL NEWS
The Watchtower—No Other Magazine Comes Close
The Watchtower has a circulation larger than any other magazine in the world. Each issue has a print run of more than 42 million copies. Awake! is second, with a circulation of 41 million copies each issue. Both magazines are published by Jehovah’s Witnesses and are distributed in 236 lands.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Wonderful. The number of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide is small, but the road to life is SMALL and narrow so we don't expect our number to be any where near the Catholic and Baptist faiths.
People don't like the truth that is why whenever God destroys humans only a FEW are saved.
Noahs Day-----8 Survivors
Sodom and Gommorah---3 Survivors
Modern Times----Less than 10,000,000 on the narrow road leading off into life.
God looks at QUALITY not QUANTITY.
30 Rotten Fruits of Counterfeit Christian Religions and Counterfeit Christians why they are deserving of destruction.