Why so few men?
1) most young males growing up in the WTS leave at 18 (or sooner); there is even a bigger dearth of MS in our area thus no one to "grow" into elders; the process now is to send elders from other areas to fill in the gaps
2) many elders are voluntarily stepping down due to the pressure, stress, and political games played on elder bodies.
3) elders are moving away and not being reappointed as elders due to their own choice.
4) elders are being removed because of df'd minor children living at home; they stop playing the company game, etc.
5) few men come into the WTS from the outside since the WTS sends women around to call on the few women that are still at home during the week. Few male jws go in the field circus during the evening when men are more likely to be home and even fewer actually make return visits on the men they do contact.
6) as to "growing" unbelieving husbands, one called me and asked if there was some current program to convert husbands again and I told him that there was an article in the KM. I guess this was the third time they had try to cultivate his "friendship" within a 5 year gap. When he didn't come to meetings or have a study, they quickly dropped him. I guess jws think he is too dumb to know what is going on.
Blondie
