3 year old unbaptized publisher

[Jack Ryan]

At the assembly today the Circuit Overseer, Steve Elumbaugh, talked about a single pioneer mother and her 3 year old unbaptized publisher daughter. Why would he relate that experience? It just makes the Witnesses seem unbalanced. Why would the Service Committee even approve the daughter. Poor baby. She's only 3 years old. SMH. This whole thing is past ridiculous.

[Srecko Sostar]

6 minutes ago, Jack Ryan said:

At the assembly today the Circuit Overseer, Steve Elumbaugh, talked about a single pioneer mother and her 3 year old unbaptized publisher daughter. Why would he relate that experience? It just makes the Witnesses seem unbalanced. Why would the Service Committee even approve the daughter. Poor baby. She's only 3 years old. SMH. This whole thing is past ridiculous.

---- well, it seems how in next year the kid will be baptised

[JOHN BUTLER]

1 hour ago, Jack Ryan said:

At the assembly today the Circuit Overseer, Steve Elumbaugh, talked about a single pioneer mother and her 3 year old unbaptized publisher daughter. Why would he relate that experience? It just makes the Witnesses seem unbalanced. Why would the Service Committee even approve the daughter. Poor baby. She's only 3 years old. SMH. This whole thing is past ridiculous.

Now a mother may have to take her 3 year old daughter with her on the ministry,  but not as an unbaptised publisher surely. Unless there is more to it than this...... 

[JOHN BUTLER]

How do you count your membership?

We count as Jehovah’s Witnesses only those who are actively preaching the good news of God’s Kingdom each month. (Matthew 24:14) This includes those who have been baptized as Witnesses as well as those who, though not yet baptized, qualify to share in the preaching work.

Um, so here we have a 3 year old unbaptised publisher. 

@Jack Ryan Why would the Service Committe even approve the daughter ? 

Answer: To make up the numbers as so many older witnesses are leaving of their own choice.

I wonder how many young children are being used in this way to make the numbers up. Some families have five children or more. 

So the 8.5 million 'Witnesses' could be one third of them under ten years old.  

Having been a witness I've seen how many children are in congregations.