My mom's circuit was disbanded

by RunningMan 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  RunningMan

  Well, I found out yesterday that the circuit that my mother attends will cease to exist as of this summer. The circuit has existed pretty much since the beginning of time. Due to low attendance, and gradual drying up of all JW's in rural Saskatchewan, they are closing one or two congregations every year.

  So, she will now be attending in the city where I live. I guess this means I will have to start going to the assemblies.

  My in-laws circuit assembly attendance has dropped from 750-ish in the mid 80's to around 450 at the last one. There is talk of disbanding it, too. I may be inundated with relatives, come assembly time.
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  dungbeetle

  One word..."relocate"
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  lv4fer

  I'm so sorry. Take a headset with a CD player. It will look like your hearing impaired and your tuning in but you can play your favorite music/book.
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  Simon

  'accidentally' book a holiday to coincide with the dates.
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  out4good3

  Take a headset with a CD player. It will look like your hearing impaired and your tuning in but you can play your favorite music/book.

  Or better yet, take a headset with radio functions. At least then when you get tired of listening to the same old CD or book, you can listen to the game.

  That is if you choose to let their visit bully you into going to the meetings at all. Your house....your rules.....
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  ofcmad

  They probably used the term of "reassignment". They can't let it slip that they are drying up as badly as they are.

  ofcmad
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  Imbue

  Even near Bethel the congs are drying up. the assemblies only have half the dubs as a few years ago.

  Surgery, tell her your mom your having dental surgery that weedend

  "Not part of the inner circle class"-Larc
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  jack2

  perhaps this is a drying up of the waters, such as that which the WTS applies to the churhes of Christendom.

  jack2......formerly DB
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  Satanus

  If the dubs are dwindling in sask, that may be a good place to go. I was born there.

  SS
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  bitter mango

  lol satan!! really?? where abouts? i was born in sask too. tell me!

  the scalpel shines in god's sunshine
  street lights whisper pain
  down here near the poison stream our god has gone insane