Memorial Attendance

[James the Less]

Forgive me if there is already a thread, but I thought I'd start a thread where we can post the Memorial attendance at our congregations over the next 24 hours

 

The Memorial at my congregation is about an hour away. Maybe we could post in this format:

 

Congregation

No. of publishers

Memorial attendance

Partakers (if any)

 

Fire away!

[Dages]

102.

 

Let's hope it's the last Memorial

[hatcheckgirl]

598

This was a combined attendance at our Assembly Hall with 4 congregations.  The Assembly Hall is in my territory, so our invite was local, but the other congregations are about 20 mins away and I wondered if newly interested ones or invite-responders would do the travelling.  Seems like many interested ones did show up.  I had a lovely gent ask about my marital status!

 

That's never happened before.  But the lovely atmosphere made the Memorial feel even more special, sort of like a Circuit Assembly.  Our CO even gave the talk, which was excellent.  He made a wonderful point about the relationship anointed have with their father Jehovah - he was using the scripture in Romans "Abba Father".  When unusually, a brother approached the speaker with a note.  That's strange I thought.  Must be very important to interrupt the Memorial talk.  Then the CO read out the message. "We have a car that has the headlight left on, and we don't want you to have a flat battery.  So if your car is XXXX please go and turn off your lights".  Well, is that really worth interrupting our meeting for?

Then the CO made his point.  To who was this message relevant to?  Only one person in the audience would have their ears prick at the mention of their car's registration number.  The rest of us just let that information just fly over our heads. "It's not me".  It's like that with Jehovah's spirit being in communion with the anointed person's spirit - it is something only pertinent and relevant to them.  To the rest of us who don't have this calling, it doesn't affect us.  He said that was the best illustration he could come up with to best explain this relationship.

We all had to applaud!

Enjoy your lovely Memorial, and how lovely to share this great meeting together around the world, to say thank you to Jehovah and Jesus.

Edited April 3, 2015 by hatcheckgirl

[sunshine]

Hugs to all the friends, Paris calling, we're about five hours out from our memorial.  Greetings To those alreading started!!!!!

 

Twenty million this year? Time will tell.

Edited April 3, 2015 by sunshine

[James the Less]

Wow sister Lucy that's amazing! 598 is awesome. In our congregation of 140ish publishers, we had 281, which I am pretty sure is our largest attendance ever. Awesome evening!

[hatcheckgirl]

But Jamie, double the attendance is great! 

[dilip kumar]

178 in erode congregating(Tamil Nadu, south India )publishers 74.enjoyed.

Sent from my LG-E988

[Shawnster]

178 in erode congregating(Tamil Nadu, south India )publishers 74.enjoyed.

Sent from my LG-E988

 

Wow, you had over 100 more people than you have publishers!  That's awesome!

[dilip kumar]

With my Hindu father who is attending this for the fourth year at the age of 76.

[dilip kumar]

[rocket]

beautiful group of people Dilip.

[nanceebgd46]

Thank you Bro. Dilip for sharing your pictures you took at the Memorial...I really enjoy seeing friends in their cultural fashions.

The pictures of you and your wife came out especially good...you are both very photogenic.  

Edited April 3, 2015 by nanceebgd46

[dilip kumar]

Thank you sis

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[And_Ray]

My congregation has 32 publishers and we had 82 in attendance. This has been the biggest number so far!

[shali]

Such a wonderful treat to see these beautiful pics before I attend my memorial tonight! Thank you so much Brother Dilip for sharing these with us!

[Adelin]

Then the CO made his point.  To who was this message relevant to?  Only one person in the audience would have their ears prick at the mention of their car's registration number.  The rest of us just let that information just fly over our heads. "It's not me".  It's like that with Jehovah's spirit being in communion with the anointed person's spirit - it is something only pertinent and relevant to them.  To the rest of us who don't have this calling, it doesn't affect us.  He said that was the best illustration he could come up with to best explain this relationship.

We all had to applaud!

so, after all, was that announcement real or just for the sake of illustration ?

if it was real and the illustration was made instantly, that´s really something about the holy spirit

[Sepie93]

We have about 95 publishers and had an attendance of 134.

[rocket]

My congregation has 32 publishers and we had 82 in attendance. This has been the biggest number so far!

 

That is so encouraging to see good results for all your hard work. Your Congregation gave much for Jehovah to bless!

[pholmes38]

We are one of the congregations in Birmingham, England.

Nearly 100 publishers, with 156 in attendance.

[stuagu]

Combined attendance of 306 for maidstone tovil and allington congregations. No par takers as far as I'm aware .

Usual attendance for the two is about 180-200

[Mykyl]

Here in Scotland we had 159. Normally around 80. So almost double.

[Daniela]

We helped a group (17 proclaimers) that belongs to our congregation (my husband gave the talk). They had for the first time a Memorial in their village. There were 82 in attendance!!!

Per total, our congregation had 285 (116 proclaimers).

Edited April 3, 2015 by Daniela

[bohemian]

Ours was 211 for a congregation of about 130 publishers.

[Sunnyside]

We had one partaker. Thats her in a pink sari.

From the four plates you can see the bread she broke. Was just a little piece. She sat at the back but could still here it crack.

Attendance later

[Rozzalyan]

With love from Nyali, Kenya. 1 partaker # memorial2015