Memorial Attendance

[TheKid23]

3 hours ago, TheKid23 said:

We had 149 in person but some joined on zoom, think there’s around 120 pubs. We had 2 partakers, however 1 was not a brother but came for the 1st time. 
 

There were quite a few new faces and inactive ones this year which was nice to see. 

We actually had 2 usual partakers +the a new person who partook, so 3 in total. 

Edited April 13 by TheKid23

[minister159]

We met at the Mira Loma assembly hall in Southern California with brother Kenneth Cook from the Governing Body giving the talk. I think we had about eight congregations and 1,500 in attendance. The total attendance wasn't announced, but it was a little more than half filled, and I think it holds about 3,000 maximum.

[DancesWithWife]

55 minutes ago, daydream said:

Why is it called a pink moon?

While it's named for the pink moss phlox, a wildflower that blooms in early spring, the moon itself won't appear pink. Just a name given. The full moon we saw had a nice color. 

[Wanda Hill]

We had 189 attend. Don't know if there were any partakers.

[SUNRAY]

We Zoomed to the Daytona Beach, Fl. Assembly Hall..A brother from Warwick gave an excellent talk with illustrations and images on the monitors that we also could enjoy on Zoom. We had 1799 in attendance!

[Jwanon]

I could greet a disfellowshipped man at the Memorial yesterday

[Almursal]

we had 200 (15 on zoom) and 1 partaker (120 publishers)

[Doug]

29 minutes ago, SUNRAY said:

A brother from Warwick gave an excellent talk with illustrations and images on the monitors that we also could enjoy on Zoom. 

 

I was anticipating a video from a GB with words of encouragement.  Hasn't that happened in the past?

[Tortuga]

9 minutes ago, Doug said:

 

I was anticipating a video from a GB with words of encouragement.  Hasn't that happened in the past?

There was a very nice Morning Worship, but I don't recall seeing a video during a Memorial talk. 

[Foxes53]

We had 256 in attendance plus 30 on zoom.

Publishers 137

[Hope]

We had 179 in attendance. Not bad for a 9.30p meeting. 😉😴

[coony77]

I´ve always wondered: How do you get your attendants numbers so fast??? Who do you ask so quickly? Is it announced?

We (= congregation Reutlingen west) had our memorial together with 3 other congregations in the assembly hall. I know that those 4 congregations make around 450 - 500 publishers in total, but I have no idea about the total number of attendants. I saw the responsible brothers counting the people, but none of them was from my own congregation, so how could I have the number by the end of the evening? 

[paulc]

We have 74 publishers 120 in attendance with 13 on zoom.  1 partaker. 

[Hope]

38 minutes ago, coony77 said:

I´ve always wondered: How do you get your attendants numbers so fast??? Who do you ask so quickly? Is it announced?

We (= congregation Reutlingen west) had our memorial together with 3 other congregations in the assembly hall. I know that those 4 congregations make around 450 - 500 publishers in total, but I have no idea about the total number of attendants. I saw the responsible brothers counting the people, but none of them was from my own congregation, so how could I have the number by the end of the evening? 

I ask one of the brothers who's counting.. or the COBE. I just sent a text this morning and got my reply 😊

[Tortuga]

Question: I haven't researched it yet so please forgive me, but a sister in our congregation partakes every year, this year she is out of town but has confirmed that she partook. Is she counted as a partaker by her home congregation or the one she is visiting?

[Andrey]

17 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

Question: I haven't researched it yet so please forgive me, but a sister in our congregation partakes every year, this year she is out of town but has confirmed that she partook. Is she counted as a partaker by her home congregation or the one she is visiting?

 

To whichever assembly a brother or sister belongs, that's where he or she must file the report. Those are the rules. 

[truce]

10 hours ago, truce said:

The French congregation of 30ish publishers combined with the Pidgin West Africa congregation of 40ish publishers. I'll find out the total attendance and update. 

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[jwhess]

Many congregations have a form on the information board where the attendants write down the number of publishers present for each meeting.  this is collected by the secretary once a month to compile the congregation's records.  We use a digital backup but not every attendant has the app or knows how to use it.  A pencil is always available...♥️

[dljbsp]

4 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Question: I haven't researched it yet so please forgive me, but a sister in our congregation partakes every year, this year she is out of town but has confirmed that she partook. Is she counted as a partaker by her home congregation or the one she is visiting?

The direction is to count the partakers at your location. Secretary handles figures and report. In the US, the branch encourages it be reported at the end of the memorial. 

Previous poster noted that Brother Cook gave the talk in CA. They count him there, not in his home congregation.

 

[pnutts]

276

[Wanda Hill]

8 hours ago, Hope said:

We had 179 in attendance. Not bad for a 9.30p meeting. 😉😴

 

Beautiful picture, Sis!

 

[Ysaias]

Our congregation had 412, all presential, no partakers.

Since we couldn't transmit with Zoom from the venue, arrangements were made for all who couldn't be present to connect to another congregation.

Edited Monday at 12:32 PM by Ysaias
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[Hope]

On 4/13/2025 at 6:57 AM, Andrey said:

April 12, 2025, Cherkasy, Ukraine. The Memorial was held in Kingdom Hall in time: 7:15 p.m.

 

Present: 214 and at Zoom 69. (photo)

 

 

This is sort of off topic but I didn't know where to place it. Would appreciate your thoughts, @Andrey

 

With permission from Oleksii Marchenko (a Ukrainian brother who is long-time Facebook friend of mine) 🤗 😞

 

Ukrainian city Sumy... April 12, two congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses had the Memorial in this building. Everything went well. Just look what happened the next day after Russian cassette missile hit there... 😱😢

34 people were killed (including 2 kids), 117 injured (15 children).

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/mayor-ukraines-sumy-says-over-20-dead-russian-missile-strike-2025-04-13/

 

 

 

[grain of mustard]

My congregation has 49 publishers, the attendance at the celebration was 59 souls 

[Kps10]

Attendance 96 (3 zoom) 35 pubs