SPAIN - "December 15, 2017 letter Re: 2017 Service Year Report" - with local numbers and highlights

[The Librarian]

The previously posted WT letter of December 15, 2017 "Re: 2017 Service Year Report" was for the UScongregations.

The second (and third) paragraphs of the letter are being re-written to feature highlights in the local field to the congregations that it is addressed to...

• PHILIPPINES - "December 15, 2017 letter Re: 2017 Service Year Report" - with local numbers and highlights

Below is the local section of the SPANISH letter:

December 15, 2017, TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: 2017 Service Year Report

Dear Brothers:

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Regarding the activity in Spain. You will be glad it was a historic maximum in the number of publishers, reaching a total of 112,916, which represents an increase of 1% over the previous year. On average, each publisher devoted about 11.8 monthly hours to preaching. which equates to 1,332,408 hours each month. It is very encouraging to see that 16,499 brothers served as regular pioneers. As a result of that evangelizing work and Jehovah's blessing, 2,037 new brothers were baptized during the past year of service. This is the equivalent of 29 congregations of 70 publishers and assumes an average of about 5 new baptized people every day of the year. In addition, more than 52,000 Bible courses were reported and we had an attendance of 188,092 to the Memorial of the death of Christ. This summer we also enjoyed the motivating regional assembly entitled "Don't give up". A total of 129,992 were able to benefit from the program. What an animator! True? You will also be happy to know that we currently have 34 congregations and 24 Spanish sign language groups in the country. It is also worth noting the work that many brothers are doing in other languages and that it is evident that it also has the blessing of Jehovah.

The branch of Spain also supervises the work in Andorra and Gibraltar. In Andorra there are currently 3 congregations (Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese speaking), which have a total of 164 publishers. As for Gibraltar, there is a Spanish-speaking and an English-speaking congregation, in which there are 124 publishers. In both places, the brothers have also been constant in their activity and deserve praise for it.

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