Its says in many charity commission bits that jw congregation have submitted that they provide care and counselling.Oh please. These morons don't know the meaning of "care". As far as "counselling" goes, ya, they provide lots of "council" for the following infractions:
- Missing meetings
- Getting less than 10 hours of Service in each month if you're trying to be an MS or elder
- Being 18 years old and not baptized
- Not including one of the elders' wives in a get-together
- Questioning any of their insane doctrines (this one gets you a lot of 'intense counselling')
- Going to university
- Playing sports after school
- Growing a beard (apparently this is okay if you're a woman)
- Not wearing nylons even when it's a hundred degrees outside
- Kissing someone who you're not legally married to
- Going to the police and telling them you were sexually molested by a fellow 'Christian'
- Complaining about having to study the Revelation book yet again
- Buying a two-door car
- Displaying your depression in front of the visiting CO
- Accepting Shift work
- Not kissing the CO's or DO's ass
- Showing too much grief when a family member dies
- Doing anything with a family member who's DF'd
- Contemplating leaving your husband who's beating you and the kids
- Openly ask "where's Armageddon?"
The elders are not trained professionals and should not be counselling anyone about anything. The only advice they seem to be able to give is: Pray more, go out in service more, keep your mouth shut and your doubts to yourself. As for 'care', well, the only time they do that is when there's a natural disaster where they figure they can drum up some business by showing everyone how 'caring' they are.
I don't think it could be summed up any better than this.