2017 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses

[SteEis]

Any ideas about the 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses? When it will be able to download? What country is specified? How many publishers were in 2016 service year? How many countries are listed?

[On the huh]

Yearbooks are normally released on or around 1st January.

[And_Ray]

Yearbooks are normally released on or around 1st January.

It uses to be like that until last year.
Starting this year, we'll get it in October

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[Dages]

The link will be here :

https://www.jw.org/download/?output=html&pub=yb17

[jscotchie]

Everybody seems to be under the impression that the Yearbook will come out this month because of what the letter about the 2017 annual items said. But what it actually said was "the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in October of this year." That doesn't necessarily mean we'll get the Yearbook this month. I thought it usually takes a little longer than a month to compile the report for the 2016 service year.

[Tortuga]

13 minutes ago, jscotchie said:

Everybody seems to be under the impression that the Yearbook will come out this month because of what the letter about the 2017 annual items said. But what it actually said was "the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in October of this year." That doesn't necessarily mean we'll get the Yearbook this month. I thought it usually takes a little longer than a month to compile the report for the 2016 service year.

[SteEis]

One year ago (two or three) the yearbook was online about christmas time.

[On the huh]

4 hours ago, jscotchie said:

Everybody seems to be under the impression that the Yearbook will come out this month because of what the letter about the 2017 annual items said. But what it actually said was "the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in October of this year." That doesn't necessarily mean we'll get the Yearbook this month. I thought it usually takes a little longer than a month to compile the report for the 2016 service year.

I'm glad I was not only one who understood it that way.  The annual items include Examining the Scriptures, which was made ready for download in October, so the statement is true.

[rocket]

The 2016 Yearbook became available for download on December 25, 2015

 

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/24645-2016-yearbook/#comment-360816

 

The 2015 Yearbook became available for download on January 5, 2015

 

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/18651-2015-yearbook-download/#comment-265412

 

 

2017 Yearbook becomes available ?

[Tortuga]

18 minutes ago, rocket said:

The 2016 Yearbook became available for download on December 25, 2015

There's a joke in there somewhere. ..

[Alexa]

16 hours ago, Tortuga said:

There's a joke in there somewhere. ..

Ho ho ho  

[rocket]

4 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

There's a joke in there somewhere. ..

 

Only if it was a stocking stuffer.  

[Omoyeme]

7 hours ago, SteEis said:

One year ago (two or three) the yearbook was online about christmas time.

 Oh nooo! You..you said the "C" word?!! 

 

[SteEis]

11 hours ago, Omo_Yeme said:

 Oh nooo! You..you said the "C" word?!! 

 

I can repeat it: One year ago (two or three) the yearbook was online about christmas time. Better saying the “C” word than celebrating it. How can you explain it why you do not celebrate it without using the word?

[JSmith]

1 hour ago, SteEis said:

I can repeat it: One year ago (two or three) the yearbook was online about christmas time. Better saying the “C” word than celebrating it. How can you explain it why you do not celebrate it without using the word?

"I do not observe the pagan celebration of Saturnalia" always worked for me.

Edited October 7, 2016 by JSmith

[Ivine]

5 hours ago, SteEis said:

I can repeat it: One year ago (two or three) the yearbook was online about christmas time. Better saying the “C” word than celebrating it. How can you explain it why you do not celebrate it without using the word?

I think sister Sandra is not being serious...  Even once, the publications written for Slave says Christmas, with a capital C. So, there's any problem for using the word Christmas to talk about this pagan celebration.

[jwhess]

12 minutes ago, Ivine said:

I think sister Sandra is not being serious...  Even once, the publications written for Slave says Christmas, with a capital C. So, there's any problem for using the word Christmas to talk about this pagan celebration.

In the Reasoning book pages 176, 177 and 439 use Christmas with a capital 'C' (and it even say "Father Christmas" in caps).

[Omoyeme]

Brother Stefan...it was a facetious remark.  (I'm sorry to give you the wrong impression.)

[rbrown1205]

I am really thankful that they have been putting the Yearbooks on mp3.  I could play the entire thing in one day, and scrub  the house clean during that time!!

[*Jack*]

I wonder if Cuba will finally reach 100,000 publishers...

[SteEis]

16 hours ago, Brother Jack said:

I wonder if Cuba will finally reach 100,000 publishers...

Cuba had 96,487 publishers. After Cuba the next countries are Malawi (89,626), Ecuador (87,020) and Chile (76,296).

Perhaps Brasil (805,044) or Mexico (832,981) will reach 1,000,000 publishers.

Perhaps (9,703) Taiwan will reach 10,000.

Perhaps Aruba (975) or Cambodia (924) will reach 1,000.

[*Jack*]

25 minutes ago, SteEis said:

Cuba had 96,487 publishers. After Cuba the next countries are Malawi (89,626), Ecuador (87,020) and Chile (76,296).

Perhaps Brasil (805,044) or Mexico (832,981) will reach 1,000,000 publishers.

Perhaps (9,703) Taiwan will reach 10,000.

Perhaps Aruba (975) or Cambodia (924) will reach 1,000.

Mexico really has a lot of publishers. I know here in Texas, it's not uncommon for a whole Mexican family to come into the truth after one person starts studying. Strong families make strong congregations 

[SteEis]

How many memorial partakers were 2016?

[Nnaemeka]

7 hours ago, SteEis said:

How many memorial partakers were 2016?

Should the memorial partakers number be coming down or going up? That's a tricky question Stefan. My brain tells me it should be down but recently it has been going up. I saw the stats you posted on memorial partakers in another thread. 

I'm still digesting that information.

[Mike]

43 minutes ago, Nnaemeka said:

Should the memorial partakers number be coming down or going up? That's a tricky question Stefan. My brain tells me it should be down but recently it has been going up. I saw the stats you posted on memorial partakers in another thread. 

It's been mentioned before on other posts: The number of partakers is simply a number.  Going up or down is not of any concern.  The number could be very accurate or completely wrong. In the end Jehovah will decide. Personally, I spend about 30 seconds on that portion of the yearbook.  It means as much to my spiritual life as knowing how many people were baptized happen to have blue eyes.