Interesting District Convention News.....

by Pyramid Scheme 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  Chaserious

  They still manage to get their "cleaning up the dirty sports arena" stories in the news from time to time, like this one:

  http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2012/07/jehovahs_witnesses_to_give_sun.html

  In my area, it seems that they still locate them in large arenas, except they are on their third different rented arena in this region in the last 8 years. I wonder if they wear out their welcome, or if they are just trying to get better deals. Also curious if in the next few years, they will all eventually end up in CA halls.
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  Chaserious

  Also, this is old, but it's about the same convention city as above. I found it interesting that "the group [WTS] requested that the city provide between $3,000 and $5,000 to underwrite the cost of renting the Sun Bank Center." Seems pretty cheap considering that a non-JW in this article estimated that the conventions would bring $6 Million in revenue to the city of Trenton. Maybe they aren't getting kickbacks from the municipalities like they used to.

  http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2012/02/jehovas_witnesses_to_hold_conv.html
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  donuthole

  Why pay a "worldly" convention center when donations could go to the Witness owned assembly hall and then voted to be passed on to the Society?