by Prisca 26 Replies latest jw experiences
"What gives you the right to speak to me like that?" he asked, "I pay your rent" I answered.
More people should be brave enough to speak this truth!
Nice one, H.S.!
Cheers,
Ozzie
Do the GB go to a KH? Or are they above that?
Break the chains that bind you,
unless, of course, you're into that sort of thing.
They attend one of the KH's located at Bethel.
Apparently, they are kind men and, according to a CO's wife, they are very humble in the congregation and serve as elders in the congregations that they attend.
When the CO and his wife had to serve those halls, they were wondering how in the world they could "critique" or assist those halls, but the brothers told them to treat them and the publishers therein just as they would any hall. If the CO felt the hall needed counsel, he was to give it. If the CO felt they had low hours or low meeting attendance, he was to say it.
Apparently, they are kind men and
I guess they subscribe to the "kill 'em with kindness" theory.
Barber ain't in his 80s, but around 95.
Simplesally,
With all due respect, and I speak from first-hand experience, your information on the GB and other higher-ups seems more than a bit idealized.
I was in the same congregation with several, including Brother Knorr, and I can tell you they were seldom seen at meetings or out in field service. In fact, the prevailing attitude was to invoke Bethel work as a reason for their infrequent attendance. I've personally seen Knorr's field service report slips and they were nothing to brag about.
The only real exception I knew of was Fred Franz; I also understand that Jaracz makes a fairly earnest effort to play by the rules. Most, however, use their Bethel status as a justification to go easy on local meetings and field service.
As I indicated in a thread called ``Bethel memoirs'' some time ago, one of my regular duties was weekend receptionist at the 124 Columbia Heights building. I did that once a month. The first order of business every Sunday morning was for me to go to the newsstand at the Saint George Hotel and pick up 14 copies of the Sunday New York Times for distribution to the likes of Knorr, Suiter, Couch, etc.
So many of these higher-ups lolled around Bethel on weekends in slippers and casual attire that we referred to them as the ``Ban-Lon Brigade:'' a reference to the knit polo shirts so many of them favored on the weekends. They were more likely to be found raiding the kitchen for a snack than they were at their Kingdom Halls.
Of course, these ussually managed to find a way to report some token field service, mostly from talks they had given; but none of the local elders and even the Circuit Overseers had the temerity to take them to task. And, in most cases, the wives of the bigshots also got a pass, although I'm sure there were exceptions I'm unaware of.
Just my 2 cents.
You don't upset me.....
A former Bethelite told me it was rare if a Bethelite got even the national average for field service. He said it was very hard with the workload to get out in the ministry in addition to all the requirements.
I hear its one reason many pioneers leave is because they miss the ministry ..... they have too many work hours, 6 days a week plus all the must-do breakfast/morning worship, the changing into formal clothes for lunch and then back to work, then back home, change for dinner and mandatory family study, travel to congregations for meetings and if you're new, Bethel Entrants school.
