I remember knowing that we could have a "large gathering" in the circuit before the new circuit overseer came on the scene and this was during the beginning of the "no large gatherings" edict. When the CO had his meeting with the elders in the circuit, he chastised more than a few and even made an example ot of one somewhat "prominent" elder by demoting his duties in the circuit to send a message not to play around and try to get away with things because "Mothr" is always watching......Anything that you got away with??
Did Your Congregation Ever Get Away With Doing Things Until The CO's Visit?
by minimus 18 Replies latest jw friends
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Lo-ru-hamah
I never really got away with anything but I do know elders that would fluff the service reports to make it look like they didn't have any inactive publishers in the hall. In fact, one elder had to call two regular pioneers that hadn't turned in their time for six months.
Loruhamah
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blondie
Some elders getting away with doing business with a DF'd person.
Some elders getting away with socializing with DF'd family members.
Like that?
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XBEHERE
I fudge every single meeting attendance figure as secretary after I started doubting. So basically our congregations attendance is nothing more than a figment of my imagination. Just too lazy to actually record the figures and since I don't give a crap anymore it doesnt really matter what I put down. I wonder of the Holy spirit mysteriously changes the figures to the correct ones while in the card box...kind of like how the swastika's burned off the crate carrying the ark in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
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stillajwexelder
many times
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TheListener
Yes.
It would take a couple of days to get all the records "accurate" for the COs scrutiny.
The "accurate" records were just enough to make us look really good but not too much so as to stand out and have too much expected.
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drew sagan
I love the mad rush elders play in trying to get back all of the territory cards to make it look like more got done since the last visit. I've heard brothers getting on people hard, not to mention special announcements and territory card recounts to make sure they get as many in as possible. What a bunch of goofs! Yeah, that didn't look like they where trying to impress someone!
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KW13
dunno but something was always said and change made after he left. never happy!
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looking_glass
Drew - the same thing would happen in the Hall I was raised in. My hall consisted of mostly women with wealthy non-JW husbands. These women never wanted to go into any place considered "dangerous" which was any place that was not a gated home (I soon realized it was easier to say no one was home at a gated home then to actually get out of your car and walk down the street and knock on a door). So the territories that were not in the nice neighborhoods were never done. Right before the CO visit these territories would get pushed, but no one was willing to take them under the guise "my husband does not want me in possible harm's way" which always trumped the elders. But it did seem like for record purposes those territories would get worked as regular as the weathy ones. I always wondered if the boys in the back were working their magic on the numbers.
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TheListener
We never bothered chasing down territory cards and such. We'd just check them out to ourselves and various family members. For some territories you could write in a publishers first name with last initial and for another their last name with first initial. This way the CO didn't see the same name(s) all over the book.
Literature, dump the old and pass out the special request crap before he comes, yeehaaa!