A non-JW friend in a Southern state has close ties to a JW with a late teen-aged son. This son is pioneering during late hours, meaning 11 pm to 2 am. I'm told his car group calls on, among others, convenience store workers where they apparently have much idle time on their hands. This all sounds suspect. Is this just a local instance or is it practiced nationwide? Len
Witness work at 2 a.m.?
by Fatfreek 26 Replies latest jw experiences
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Junction-Guy
I am not sure as I have never heard of this, but it does sound like a lucrative market.
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blondie
No, I can remember going out past 8 pm calling on 24 hour gas stations and convenience stores. I also had a study with a woman that worked until 11 pm and went to bed around 7 am. But how many businesses like that can there be?
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MissingLink
Night clubs are a great place to get a few hours of ministry. Drunks are very talkative and open.
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nameless_one
That's certainly an interesting approach. Are the others in his car group also teenagers? My first thought on reading this was that he's feeding his mom a line about where he is late at night, but I'm sure that's overly cynical.
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Fatfreek
My first thought on reading this was that he's feeding his mom a line about where he is late at night, but I'm sure that's overly cynical.
That's gone through my mind as well. I mean, how many convenience stores are there in an area? To call on a enough to fill 3 hours that may run the gas bill up.
Other than convenience stores and 24 hour gas stations, what's left?
Len
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Casper
Sounds fishy to me.... but then, who knows...
Gotta get those hours in
Cas
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FadingAway
I know of a congregation in Charlotte that had members go out Saturday morning at 12 AM and work till 7 AM. They would then stop for breakfast and meet back with their regular field service groups.
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Finally-Free
A pioneer™ sister™ in my hall gave an experience™ about going out all night to 24 hr gas bars and placing a lot of magazines. I have to wonder where she went, as there were only 3 such gas stations in that area.
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song19
I think this is common practice. Now I heard of people driving long distances, and I mean long distances to go on vacation or what not and count every second as they would stop at gas stations and stores etc.
When I was a young JW, we would drive to our street territory and stop in at the gas stations along the way. We normally headed out the door around 5am. I was such a zealous teen... never did that as an adult. LOL