Convention invitation distribution campaign - Apr KM

by dozy 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • dozy
    dozy

    Had a quick look at the April KM - they are having (yet) another invitation campaign to the convention. Slight twist though , in that any invitations not used are to be taken to the convention & used in informal witnessing.

    Traditional "convention reminders" insert - usual stuff about "Jehovah arranging the program" , get early to the stadium , tip restaurant staff , don't make a scene at hotel reception desks if they have messed up your booking , no peeing in the hotel pool etc. (I made the last one up , but you get the gist.)

  • MrMonroe
    MrMonroe

    It really says Almighty God arranged the program? They really do have a hotline to the Big Guy.

  • blondie
    blondie

    In this area jws have to travel 100 miles to the convention. Are they supposed to hand out fliers to the public in that area to travel 100 miles?

  • sir82
    sir82
    In this area jws have to travel 100 miles to the convention. Are they supposed to hand out fliers to the public in that area to travel 100 miles?

    Same thing here.

    How about relatively rare (in the US anyway) language groups, Korean or Tagalog or Vietnamese, etc.? The nearest convention site could literally be 1000 miles away.

    "Hello dear stranger, would you like to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to travel halfway across the continent to hear a 30 minute public discourse? No? Why on earth not? You must be a God-hating goat."

  • punkofnice
    punkofnice

    @blondie

    In this area jws have to travel 100 miles to the convention. Are they supposed to hand out fliers to the public in that area to travel 100 miles?

    Yes. In a word! That's what they do where I live. Advertise the indoctrination sessions for a gig 100 miles away.

    We all had to agree what a loving provision..........................oooops! I just hurled..........

  • fokyc
    fokyc

    Dozy; could you possibly post a PDF or page scans of your March/April 2011 Kingdom Ministry's?

    You wet/whet our appetites and leave us hungry!

  • nugget
    nugget

    The convention insert is always a repition of earlier ones, don't save seats, dress modestly and don't change into casual clothes when you get back to your hotel.

    My heart would always sink with these inserts it was how to make the whole weekend dismal.

    The conventions in our area always fell during school term time meaning the children lost a day of school and then were physically exhausted when the Monday rolled round. The insert gives no allowance for people with real issues and assumes that everyone attending it a fully funded and healthy member of the annointed with no children or pets and no life outside the organisation.

  • Mad Sweeney
    Mad Sweeney

    It really is a waste of time.

    And you can bet every single convention will have "an experience" on Sunday afternoon about someone who attended for the first time because of the invitation work, about a restaurant or hotel worker who is in attendance because of it, and a convention center staff member who visited because of the cleanliness, unity, and orderliness of the JWs.

  • the-illuminator81
    the-illuminator81

    It's so great to know I won't be handing out those ridiculous flyers and I won't be going!

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    How do you guys get this weeks before I get mine at the KH?

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