Do JWs have to give money to the Watchtower society for the magazines they gave out and people gave a?

Question

donation for them?

Even if JW already "paid " for them" ? What happens to the money?

Answer 1

JW dont have to pay for the magazines they get..... all donations go to the Watchtower Society towards the production of more magazines.......

Answer 2

As far as I know, the Watchtower and Awake and books are all published from donations. In a Kingdom Hall, there is no passing of a offering plate, just a box at the back of the room for people to donate what they want to. There is no forced "sale" of literature.

This is part of what I really like about the Jehovah's Witnesses. Over the past few years, they have visited me often while I was sick, we had Bible studies, and they left lots of things for me to read. Never once did they ask for money. Never once did they insist I join their belief. I consider them friends, although I do not believe all the same things as they do, they are very peaceful, loving people with an incredible amount of patience.

The donations are sent to the main printing offices, and JW volunteers do the printing, writing, illustrations, etc. They feel it is their duty, and do it in a loving way. Please have an open mind.

Answer 3

in my country Dominican Republic are free and remember that the average in Spain was a little bit higher but nothing sensitive 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

Answer 4

All donations are given from the heart, and are not based on tithes.

The money is used for many things.

Building Kingdom Halls around the world,
Building Branch Offices around the world,
Supporting all the volunteers around the world.
(Room, Board, and small living allowance)
Relief work around the world
and even for the paper and ink that is used in making the publications.

My mother was fond of telling me about when she was young and being confronted by her father and their Pastor, because she had only put in half the money her father was giving her for the church donations.

This will never happen in the Kingdom Hall, because there is no records of individual donations.

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Answer 5

No.

The publications of Jehovah's Witnesses are offered without charge to anyone and everyone. A Jehovah's Witness does not buy the magazines, and does not charge for them when they are left 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 6

It goes into the pockets of the elders.