Feild service attendance on Saturday morning at the Group Homes is very, very low. Our Brothers have been talking about combining some groups so the attendance could double and there be more support. Where there are 15-20 publishers assigned to a group, there may be 2 or 3 publishers showing up along with the Group Overseer and his wife. Combing groups would increase that to 2 car groups at least!
If other halls are suffering like we are, the KM is meant to increase Group Home support. We have publishers that go out a couple times during the week, but skip Saturday Group Home service! The reason is simple - you don't want to work with the people that do show up at the home! It gets old. These tend to be the extra needy depressed publishers that make a sucky morning even worse.
During the week, you can pick your partners a bit easier because more people are there. This is not to say that more publishers go out Monday-Friday, it's just that when they're all at the hall instead of being divided up in 6 or 7 groups, it only takes 2 out per group to make 14 freinds out. That's much better odds to have a good partner or car group than the Saturday Group Home meeting for field service!
And if you look at all the group lists, you'll find that the Brothers do a good job of spreading around the lame, depressed, annoying publishers. There is no group that has all solid, fun, stable publishers. And for some reason, lately they've been asking us to stick to our Groups even on the First Saturday of the Month when we all meet at the hall! What? W've got 40 people to choose from and we have to go seek out the same lame people we're stuck with the other 4 Saturdays?
... OUTLAW