by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends
We once had this a%#hole MS in our congo (who wanted to be an elder so bad that he probably carried chap-stick around because his lips were so chapped from kissing butt) who REFUSED to bring an elderly Sister who lived in his building to the meetings.
Thankfully the selfish prick is still not an elder 8 years later.
The elders and their mutual admiration society could take their "tradition" and shove it.
Good for you, Scully. I'd have done, and said, the same damn thing. The way I saw it, when I was a regular attendee of meetings, the elderly were on their own. My grandparents and their elderly friends would always be put together in their own car group for service. They looked after each other, because everyone else was too busy.
I can tell you firsthand, that the only ones who visited my grandparents in the nursing home, were Mary's aunt and cousin. Faithfully, every two weeks. There was once, and one time only, that the P.O. actually visited them, and it was right after he remarried...other than that, nobody came. It made me sick....but hey! What goes around, eventually comes around.
God's loving organization be damned! Oh, but they did have a big comfy chair in the back of the hall, for one sister who had trouble walking and sitting, but she wasn't elderly....then it was a free for all, every meeting, for a couple sisters, fighting over who would get the chair first. LMAO...
The elderly are usually old widows who shuffle in and shuffle out without anyone saying anything to them. They are the gray ghosts.
Dang it fraid so..A+ rating.....oompa....I kept forgeting to pick up the old ones and they kicked me off the list.
"The elderly are the gray ghosts"......sad but true in Jehovah's loving Organization.
There may be individual members who may volunteer in helping ill or the elderly in their congregation. But at the organization level there is no format. The GB do not relate to the need. The GB along with other associate elderly have their own doctor, housing and meals provided and Bethel drivers on staff. The GB have overburdened their people to absolutely go to 5 meetings/wk and door to door/wkly, plus to study/prepare for meetings, up to 10-15+ hrs/wk minimum = 40+ hrs/ month. When the ones with families and real jobs, there is hardly time/energy for the real needs.
We had an excellent presiding overseer. He and his wife really went and probably still do go out of their way to help people.
They really tried to make sure that the elderly and those who had recent surgery or had given birth got help with meals and household chores.
In both my congregation and my sister's, the brother's and sisters would go out of their way financially to help those in need as well.
When certain ones genuinely help others, that's an admirable thing.
