They are going to combine the Memorial with four congregations and rent a hall.

by life is to short 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  life is to short

  I just heard that the hall my husband is going to will combine with four other congregations to rent a building and have a mega Memorial.
  I just do not get why.

  It is gong to cost each hall about $275.00 a total of over 1000.00. The parking at the building they are going to rent in horrible and the building is in a bad part of town. The owners of this building have been trying to push its use in our city and the inside is very nice. But so with bad parking it seems crazy.

  I went to one event there a couple of weeks ago and had to park on the street walk through a scary neighborhood as I got there late.
  Anyway they say they are doing it because so many come each year and the halls just cannot hold the large crowd. I know they do this in the bigger city's but this is the first time where I live that they are doing this. I just do not get why waste the money when so many of the "friends" are struggling.

  LITS
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  cult classic

  When two or more congregations ban together for a memorial, the parking is a nightmare. Even at the double halls memorial night parking is very chaotic.

  Hey LITS - I sent u a couple of pms recently. pick 'em up when u get a chance.
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  OnTheWayOut

  I was at a cong. that did the mega-Memorial for several years. One congregation got the Kingdom Hall on a rotation basis. Ours skipped our turn because we could never fit in the Hall. We rented the auditorium at a school and three other congregations usually went in with us to defer costs. With that many congs. coming, we had to carpool. A few latecomers wound up in street parking.

  I think part of doing it this way makes the Memorial feel "special." People see a huge turnout, even if it's just the regular members and a few others.

  $1000 sounds pretty cheap.
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  Ding

  So many people to get together to watch everyone else not partake of anything!

  It's as if Jesus said, "Do not eat this bread and do not drink this cup. As often as you don't do this, do it in remembrance of me."

  The sad thing is that this makes total sense to a JW.
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  brotherdan

  It's the one time they focus on Jesus. It's too bad 90% of what they say about him is wrong. 1 day for Jesus, and then it's back to the Faithful Slave and Jehovah for the rest of the year...
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  Ding

  True, BD, but to the WTS, Jesus is really only for the 144,000.
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  brotherdan

  Funny story:

  Last year we brought my wifes grandmother to the memorial. She claims to be Mormon, but she doesn't go to the church, read the book of mormon, or any of that stuff. Anyway, the bread was being passed, and she took one of the crackers. My MIL tried to rip it from her hands. The caused the plate to inadvertently drop to the floor and the crackers were everywhere. I had to get down and pick them all up. There were pieces of hair in it. Hopefully there were no partakers that took the bread to eat after us.
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  RubaDub

  We have been renting halls for the Memorial for the last 20 years (or longer) here in Florida.

  Many KH's have 4 or 5 congregations and it is not practicle to have more than 2 meetings in the same KH on the same night (usually one starts around 7PM and the other 8:30 or 9PM).

  We currently have 4 congregations in our KH and we rotate each year so that 2 use the our KH and 2 rent a hall.

  One of the other KH's in our complex has 5 congregations so they have 3 that need to rent for the meeting.

  I'm not sure how else you could do it.

  Rub a Dub
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  serenitynow!

  Bro Dan that is funny. Your wife made more of a spectacle by trying to stop her grandma from partaking. That would have been really funny to see. I loved when irregular stuff happened at the hall.
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  brotherdan

  Yeah, we dropped the body of Christ. Oops!

  It was actually my mother-in-law that was trying to stop my grandma. She was unsuccessful. My wife's grandma chewed on the cracker the rest of the program.