by EndofMysteries 50 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
How about those zealous parents who have shunned their children?
"Hi son/daughter some family business we need to talk about. Mom and I need $1500 from you each month so that coupled with our meager savings and proceeds from the sale of our home we can spend our remaining years waiting on Armageddon with our fellow retired JW's.
What's that....... no we will have to continue to shun you.
Well I'm sorry you feel that way. I hope you change your mind."
Hmmmmmm. . .. Building multimillion dollar facilities for the aged. . . .. a nice idea.. . . .
But I thought the end was coming so SOOOOOOOOOOON!
If you look up the organization on www.Guidestar.org and find their IRS 990 form you will see that Judah Schroeder is the secretary. None of the directors appears to receive a salary. This appears to be a legitimate not for profit organization. They reported donations of 230,000 in 2011 and 3,500,000 in 2012, which seems a bit unusual.
If you cannot find the IRS form, send me a pm and I will email it to you.
you will see that Judah Schroeder is the secretary.
Guess he is no longer the WTS PR Rep.
Marries into money and decides this vow of poverty thing is a bunch of crap, so let's go make some cash on the well-heeled JW elderly.
Do I just sound jealous?
Doc
This practical venture into age care is symptomatic of every single "end-times" religious organization of sizable note: The harsh practicalities - and profits for entrepreneurs - cannot be ignored. So, whilst the elite, ivory-towered GB keep playing the old, old, old, end-is-so-near tune, congregations full of ageing members pose practical problems. The Witnesses anxiety over having age care consonant with their beliefs is the other end of their anxiety over appropriate preschool for their little darlings who expect not to reach college - or if college is reached, to by-pass it because the end's so very, very near. Meanwhile the greying, wrinkling, shuffling, coughing, spluttering, dribbling and medicated loyal masses need special care facilities so that while they wait for the end of the system, the system brings them to their natural end with paint-by-numbers Kingdom Melodies.
.Provided, of course, they've got the money...and lots of it...far more than the organization encouraged them to put aside for retirement. Yes, putting the kingdom first has come back to bite many an aged Witness on their sagging ar*es. Otherwise, its the granny flat or far worse, for the decades-long loyal door knockers and Watchtower sellers whose environments decay in shuffling synchrony with their weary, out-door-knocked bones. Some paradise, huh?
Dale Baker is the guy that gave Bethel and COs and DOs their leased cars! Looks like being a JW is a profitable enterprise for him!!
Yes I especially remember when I first started going from door to door with Bible in hand during several years of the last century which would be 2 or 3 generations ago I kept telling people that when you see all these signs foretold be on the look out for Jah Jireh Homes because the futures bright the futures that away!
The guy a JW who started J J Homes originally ran a guest house in a local UK seaside resort but diversified maybe he saw a gap in the charity market. I think JJ Homes might be franchised now or expanding on similar lines.
NewYork44M- nice homework. I wondered where Judah Schroeder wound up.
I worked in that industry for years as a consultant/CPA. There is money to be made. However, the problem is finding people with money. There is no money once the patient converts to Medicaid.
They will be marketing to JWs who did not buy into the watchtower counsel to not plan for the future. Isn't that ironic?
I have a family member who works for JJ Homes, not in the U.K, and she is not a lowly care worker, but she makes a living out of it, and supports her children and disabled husband who cannot work, I cannot believe those above her, and there must be several tiers above her, are not making a lot of $$$ or £££ etc out of it.
"Not for Profit" means that they present to the Tax man proof that, after all those "legitamate expenses" have been deducted, they made no profit.
Fees paid as expenses, wages for employees etc etc are all deductable of course, the first mentioned is open to interpretation, and to abuse, but the common man would also be astounded at what else is deductable, so that, if you plow a bit back in to expanding the business, no profit is made.
Like the WT itself , it provides something for some people, but it is basically a scam. And provides a good living for any in the scheme who are above "Care Worker" level.
