2025 Governing Body Update #7

[Doug]

On 11/24/2025 at 7:18 AM, Parale said:

 

Jeffrey Winder: "We rejoiced to see an average of 9,047,083 publishers. That represents a 2.5 percent increase. What’s more, out of the 241 lands where we preach the good news, 96 reported all-time peaks in the number of publishers."

 

 

Our CO is Shannon Rainey.  In his prayers, he mentions the approximately 118,000 congregations and the 240 lands.  He mentioned the 240 lands during his visit in October.

 

Today, at the Circuit Assembly, in his prayer he mentioned 241 lands.  This caught my attention.  Do we know what land has been added to the report since October?

[Parale]

2 hours ago, Doug said:

Today, at the Circuit Assembly, in his prayer he mentioned 241 lands.  This caught my attention.  Do we know what land has been added to the report since October?

 

My educated guess would be it is the return of the same land that dropped out of the Service Year Report a couple of years ago, namely Norfolk Island?....

 

 

FWIW the other changes over the last couple of years include both Lebanon and Russia no longer reporting individually, but instead being included in the 'other lands' where the work is restricted; Swaziland being renamed Eswatini; and Macedonia being renamed North Macedonia.