Zone Overseers (does anyone know the details?)

by slimboyfat 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

• 

  Elsewhere

  Here ya go... just read up on them in the Branch Organization Manual... Section 27.
• 

  core

  Thanks for the reminder from the YB Blondie - recall that way back (50s or very early 6os) Jack Barr & his wife, Mildred, both served at the pioneer home in Dublin (dont think Ireland had a branch office then as it was part of the "Britain" branch in WT speak - or British as it should be (this was before they were married) and after that he was at Mill Hill in London for many years, so he would seem the right man to try and damp the flames of apostasty as he had been a hardline opponent of Ray Franz situation, and would know many old-timers in Ireland. However not alltogether sure JB was very clever or Scripturally based to be able to hold forth with any with a free mind - doubtless arguments ran to the old "its Jehovahs organisation" & the well loved " leave it in Jehovahs hands"

  The manner in which the yearbook describes the "counselling process" of the apostates would likely vary from such ones point of view - knew JB at London Bethel and not very cheerful character who was being given the run around by Phil Rees and then Ron Drage as he worked in the old plate making shoip (before new printing presses did not use linotype)

  Phil Rees of course no longer with us.
• 

  babystar_jr

  Thank you serendipity
• 

  babystar_jr

  Generally dedication of branches synchronized with zone visits. Therefore, some information gathering may be possible for you if you check articles about dedication of the yearbook. Correction: Maxwell Lloyd (Australian branch committee. American branch committee member now) Günter Künz (German branch committee)
• 

  Balaamsass2

  Any updates on HOW MANY zones there are world wide and WHO the current zone overseers are?
• 

  Ocean1111

  I think the "zone" is the front end logistical control web, it cascades down to the congregational neo-Jesuits for JW herding and damage control purposes.

  The "other board" that sprang up in 1992, I think, is more the back end unknown group who are setting up the legal and financial plumbing, and they have to have deep legally knowledgeable assistance, the are like the contractors carrying out the architecture probably produced in a "star chamber" like group, totally unknwon to JWs.

  The GB "board" is the fronting "politicians" that sell the whole thing visually, and like politicians are not the real power in Bethel scattered inside and outside and probably well nested in the ever elusive "Watchtower Society".

  Thus the back end is where the real secrecy lay, the management front end is for JW control and herding. Imo all "anointed" have long been filtered out of the Bethel controls and teaching centers, it is all now a collective act to guide billions elsewhere, in time, and to sell that to JWs as "the end of the world". It will take years for JWs to figure out Bethel's end was not the "end of the world", but just the JW world many are putting misplaced faith in.

  Overall, imo, Bethel's end is what Bethel is preparing JWs for by making it appear as a global development, when it will focused on "God's house" first, and no one really cares whether JWs perceive reality very quickly as this runs its course, imo, it is not an overnight transition. The "zone" is the part of the front end JW control pyramid top that keeps the web in place.

  Phasing DOs out is just compressing them down to the CO lower tier to tighten the mix of "company men" over the congregational areas, imo.