06-08-2007, 03:33 PM | #121 | |
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Indy makes a terrific point and others have made it as well...the church is kind of stuck right now in that the turnover is so low among these leaders. But I truly believe over the next 10-15 years as the leadership turns over, the church will start calling nonUS men into these positions...this will only help the church in growth, understanding and yes, even PR. |
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06-08-2007, 03:43 PM | #122 | |
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06-08-2007, 04:04 PM | #123 |
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As membership continues to rise worldwide, won't it continue to rise amongst the white Americans and Europeans?
Sure it makes sense that once there are 5x more members in Africa, that more African GA's would pop up on the scene. But during the same time, won't there be 5x more members in the US and Europe? Unless membership growth in non-caucasian areas considerately outgain the caucasian, the pool of whities to select GA's out of will remain the majority. |
06-08-2007, 04:08 PM | #124 |
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Suppose the 13 million members currently break down like this:
11 million American & European caucasian 1 million Central and South America 1 million Africa, Asia, Aussie and Pacific Islander 20 years from now, say there are 65 million members. Presumably they will break down like this: 55 million American & European caucasian 5 million Central and South America 5 million Africa, Asia, Aussie and Pacific Islander And it remains that 9 out of 10 GA's are whities. |
06-08-2007, 04:09 PM | #125 | |
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I think the dynamic here is that a GA probably takes 30 years to make. Take the GA's of today and their average call date was probably 20 years ago. That means that to be race neutral, the GA's of today should represent church membership of 50 years ago. And it might take 50 years for GA's to represent today's membership. Certainly non-caucasian areas are growing faster than caucasian areas of the church, and have so for the last 50 years, so the gap will begin to close but it will take a while. |
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06-08-2007, 04:46 PM | #126 | |
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The growth rate outside North America will greatly outstrip North America, and indeed inside some countries such as Germany is declining due to housecleaning. Currently membership outside US exceeds inside, and Latin America will soon match membership, numerically, inside US.
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