I was wondering how many families (extended families) make up your congregation or the one that you used to belong to if you are gone... I have been in 3 different congregations in my life, and it seems like in every one of them there were about 4 or 5 families that made up the bulk of the congregation and almost everyone else was related in one way or another to those 4 or 5 families. For example, in my congregation now about 90% of the hall is related as siblings, spouses, in-laws, cousins, or parents of every publisher. That seems to be very typical - and as families break down, so do congregations....
How many families make up your hall - or old hall?
by Billzfan23 1 Replies latest jw friends
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dobbie
My old congragation is the same, my husbands mother and family, her other son and family, her sister and family, 3 boys all married, are in ours, they are mostly marreid to ones in our congregation who have family members married to others in our congregation, and the other cong. that shares the hall, so i have worked out that my husband is related by blood and marriages to half the congregation, there are some other families like that as well. They are obviously not getting enough new blood in so will probably start interbreeding next!I know there seems to be a big shortage of single brothers in the uk, or ones that want to settle down anyway. There are loads of single sisters in their 30's and 40's.