Scully, Completely agree with the picture! I can relate that one of my relatives always had JW's visiting them - in their service outfit.
Were The Elderly & Infirm Truly Given Assistance In Your Hall?
by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
I wonder how those 3 on the Awake cover turned out. The little girl probably is a Bethelite.The mommy ran away with the PO. And the old dying gay guy recovered and is now living in San Francisco.
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JK666
I think that our area is pretty good about this. Most of it is done voluntarily by the rank and file though. The elders did help some, but on an individual basis, not as a group organizing it or anything.
I would help out some of the little old sisters by taking them to the supermarket once a week. To show you how screwed up the Borg is, they always made sure that they left the door open until I left. They were 40-60 years older than me, yet still afraid that the elders would find this inappropriate.
JK
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coffee_black
When I was growing up, my parents were always helping anyone in the cong. in need...physical or financial. When my parents became sick (they died a year apart and pretty young) the cong. mobilized to help in any way possible. They took my dad to the hospital for his dialysis..had a regular schedule made up. They stayed with him and brought him home afterwards. My mom was in and out of the hospital with cancer and I had an infant daughter to take care of as well. There were continuous visitors both at the hospital and in their home. They babysat, did laundry, cleaned...they even helped bathe my dad. .. it was unbelievable. I don't know how I would have made it through that time in my life without them.
I never saw anything like it before or since.
Coffee
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White Dove
They were usually left sitting in the back of the hall after meetings waiting for someone to go up to them and say hi at least. They looked so lonely, so I tended to go up to them and visit a bit. Not very many at all bothered to greet them before or after the meetings.
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Vernon Williams
Min,
With all the horny old dudes and pedaphiles in the Org, do they REALLY need to send a hot chick and a little girl to visit a sick old man.....really??
V
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Wordly Andre
while my dad was fighting cancer, never saw the JW's at the hospital, but they all came to the reception after the funeral.
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ush419
Nope, they would only help the Pioneers and that very little. They didn't care about destitute, the poor, those suffering from mental or physical problems. Oh sure they would act all caring at the meeting but no meeting no care if you know what I mean.
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Scully
Hi Linda
Yes, I posted it on one of WasanelderOnce's threads challenging us to create new captions for the pictures on Watchtowers and Awakes.
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Scully
What really stuck in my craw was the annual "tradition" (that's what THEY called it) in our former congregation to have a dinner for the elders, elders' families and the pioneers. Because "they need the encouragement".
I asked when they were going to start a "tradition" of having a dinner for the sick, the irregular publishers, the inactive, and the ones who were struggling to keep their families in The Truth™. I was laughed at. I said that I was dead serious, and that if the elders weren't going to take the lead in arranging it, then maybe I'd do it myself. The next meeting included a reminder that large gatherings were inappropriate and could possibly get out of hand without proper supervision (from the elders, no doubt).
That is when I started my own tradition of only ever inviting people over who truly needed encouragement. The elders and their mutual admiration society could take their "tradition" and shove it.