Do Jehovah's Witnesses buy the magazines they give to people when they come to knock on doors?

Question

Or are they provided free by the Society?

Answer 1

They are provided for free, but usually people give donations when they get em......

Answer 2

in my country Dominican Republic are free, and if people including us want to give some donations can do it but if we want to withdraw the magazines and have no money nobody will tell you nothing and if someone want to read it and have no money we left it free, can you imagine how much money the COKE or another company would like to pay for and add in a magazine of almost 60 millions and worldwide? and never any magazine has any advertise..

and by the way is more expensive to do a Xerox copy of the whole magazine that the average donation, in my country the average donation is 10-20 cents (dollar) normally I left several for free to closer friends and my average is 5-10 monthly.

Stein if you compare the money hungry of evangelicals churchs the recover at least 50 times more money only in USA than the watchtower in the whole world, and that money is used in what? let ask Ted Haggard.

Answer 3

Free by the Society.

Answer 4

The publications of Jehovah's Witnesses are offered without charge to anyone and everyone. A Jehovah's Witness does not buy the magazines which he leaves with householders and other interested persons.

Jehovah's Witnesses are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with nearly seven million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 17 million associate themselves with the religion). Even full-time preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 5

As you probably know, we provide them free of charge. When acquiring them, we each as individuals must decide whether or not we would like to donate money, and if so how much. No, outside perhaps our families, knows what if anything we give.

Answer 6

FREE,
FREE of Charge,
FREE to us & All People,
If a person wants to make a donation,
u may, it is Not required.
No one I personally,
have been w/ Ever asked Any1 For A Donation.

Answer 7

We do not pay for them. We donate toward the world wide work at the contribution boxes in the Kingdom Hall. We ask for donations toward the world wide work when we place them. We let the ones who take them know we will forward any contributions they might make towards the world wide work.

Answer 8

No they don't buy them, They have a sprawling printing factory in Bethel N.Y.This place is HUGE! It covers 100s of acres and includes farms that produce way more food (vegys&dairy) than they need to feed the JWs who live and work there for a min. # of months at a time. The extra food is sold at a profit to resteraunts/ food stores, etc. The printing factory not only prints all the mags.,books,&bibles they give away in there world wide recruiting campaign but a large % of the printing is commercial (for profit) They must change out of there work cloths for each meal ,the men have to ware a shirt&tie and the women must ware a dress.This is a multi billion $ co. inc. and all there labor and recruiting(door to door preaching) is done by the JWs for free, they are told they are doing the work that Jesus instructs them to do in the Bible, 8 to 80 yrs old they keep time cards and report to the "Elders" who make sure the territories are being covered . Sounds like a cult to me,a HUGE cult but a cult non the less

Answer 9

No, we don't buy them, however we do donate money for the printing. And if anyone gives us a donation, we make sure it goes to the correct place, in order to help with the printing of the literature.

Answer 10

Actually They write and print them their selves. There is a community called the watchtower farm's.where they live and also work on the watchtower and awake publications.they use their knowledge of the bible and also fact's from universities encyclopedias and other credited sources to back up all that they write.
They have such moving picture's on their covers's don't they?
those to are made from the brother's and sisters of the faith.