Do JW sisters preach at prisons? (page 2)

skeeter1

Does anyone know if this KM was a "new" arrangment which arose out of problems with sisters openly preaching to male prisoners?

I think the news said that Mrs. Garrido met Mr. Garrido through a relative who was in the jail.

purplesofa

Thanks Blondie

I met a prisoner while travelling on a bus from San Antonio to Little Rock. He was being transferred from one prison to another, one in Texarkana I believe.

How I came to even talk to him. A passenger sitting in the seat across the aisle from me was reading a Brochure in Spanish. I tried to communicate with him, and another passenger was trying to intrepet the conversation but not doing very well. So the prisoner helped us all out. Anyway, we had a long discussion on the bus, the boy reading the brochure was going to live with his Aunt who was a witness, and looked like she was working on him for conversion. The first person was interested in God, so he had allot of questions about the witnesses. The prisoner, while interpreting got interested as well.

The prisoner gave me his address and I sent him a bible and some literature. I gave him most of the literature on me while on the bus. The prisoner wrote me back and thanked me and read most of the stuff I sent him with questions. So I turned it over to a brother from my congo to handle and he said he really did not think this guy was interested in learning the truth. I had already decided I did not want to start an ongoing correspondence with the prisoner, and felt badly that the brother never followed through with helping this guy out.

He was a nice guy, younger than me, busted for transporting marijuana over the border from Mexico to Texas.

As a witness this was a very cool experiance, I never turned it in for time or for any placements. It was just a cool thing that happened.

purplesofa

good question skeeter, they usually don't publish something until a problem arises.

blondie

And keeps happening. I work with a female jw in the same department. She has always treated me with disdain even when I was an active jw with an elder husband. I found out that she was dating some non-jw in prison and she married him this spring (he's unbaptized and not studying). I took it upon myself to congratulate her on her "good" news and asked how the elders were handling this. She was ready to freeze me out when her buddy next to her jumped in and told me they were giving her a hard time. See I married a non-jw myself (at least he wasn't just out of prison though).

The last jw I knew who married a guy out of prison was murdered by her husband.

There are at least 2 other situations that lead to sad endings. Not because they weren't jws but because they weren't good men.

Blondie

freedomisntfree

Damn thoose sexy prisoners! hahahaha

shopaholic

In my area, JW women preach at female prisons and JW men preach at male prisons.

AK - Jeff

Unfortunately my daughter has spent some quality time in a penal institution.

Every time we went for visitation, there were about 40 or 50 Jw women lined up to get access to the general visitation area. They were allowed to sit, but not solicit. If a prisoner wanted to talk about the Jw beliefs or have a 'Bible study' they would approach the seated Jw woman and sit down. I think the entire congregation must have logged tons of hours there. I think they were only allowed on that general visitation day, which was Tuesday if I recall, for about 3 hours.

So yes, they do preach in prisons.

We also have a minimum security male center in our territory here, and several Jw elders took time each week to 'study' with anyone who wished. Sadly, I participated once or twice myself.

Jeff

Farkel

: So, I'd think it would be ok for a sister to study with a prisoner and to marry a prisoner.

A dub woman should go ahead and marry a guy in prison. She's already in one herself, anyway.

Farkel

Marvin Shilmer

Witness "sisters" can and have become personally involved with male prisoners.

In a letter from 1981 Watchtower warned against "sisters" being at all involved with organized witnessing for male prison populations precisely because some were becoming romantically involved with male prisoners. So it happens.

Watchtower maintains a "prison desk" where several organized witnessing activities are recorded at various prisons across the United States.

Marvin Shilmer

On somewhat of another note,

Nancy Garrido lived just a little over one mile from the nearest Kingdom Hall in Antioch, California.

Elders know that when the CO comes around he will ask nearly every time whether there are any inactive Witnesses living nearby that he can visit with while he is with the congregation. There are several reasons for this, but chief among them is trying to maintain his tight schedule. The nearer you live, the more likely to have a personal visit by the traveling CO. You are also more likely to have a visity by local elders for the same reason of near proximity to the Kingdom Hall.

If this woman was ever a Witness, and it was known by local elders, I'd bet my bottom dollar there were at least a few shepherding calls on Nancy. Again assuming local Witnesses knew of her and that she was an inactive Witness, I'd also bet that local sisters would call on her from time to time, again for several reasons. Chief among these would be to "get their time started." If true, and given that the kdnapped woman worked out of the house for Garrido's print business, chances are that Witnesses had encountered the kidnapped gal.

Marvin Shilmer

Do JW sisters preach at prisons?

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