Detroit DC is NOT filling up? Please book a hotel room!! -letter (page 4)

piztjw

Gotta love the way the eldurrs chastise any who are not planning on attending their assigned orderd location. Like a family I know who is now being semi-shunned as stiff-necked rebels for attending a location closer to where they live and staying with family for free, instead of travelling twice as far, and staying at a recommended ordered motel an hour from the site for $100.00 per night.

?me?

for us i think people have been used to for the last 2 decades attending a local DC (some were 2 hours away in PA and took daily busses) so i think they liked the idea of something different, but now they are figuring out how to do it. there are not any closer, i think indianapolis is the other one, and not sure of how far east the next one is , maybe philly or baltimore. but i know even we are having second thoughts of spending the money on a hotel, we may stay with friends in the area. i know at my hall 75 percent are living paycheck to paycheck or less, and no one is wealthy. so it is a burden, and a hassle compared to what we have done for years. heck i even come home for lunch to let the dog out.

the letter was just striking that they mentioned the "empty hotel rooms , plenty of rooms, waiting to book" a few times and how it was going to screw the org in the future.

i miss us having 4 weekends to pick and choose to go ... now we have 2 weeks in detroit..june and july..

Listener

Not that my father could not have afforded it but there is no way he would have us stay in a Motel during an assembly. It was always Caravan Parks for us. He had an old campervan that 7 of us would stay in.

Could someone advise if this is an option in the United States or the U.K. and don't JWs do that anymore?

Spectre

Happyfying indeed!

kneehighmiah

We had the assembly last week so we just received our please come to Detroit letter today. it was hilarious. They obviously are worried about the fate of future conventions there. Also they told us that Detroit really needs our help and that the GB would never plan a convention in an unsafe location. Also they predictably attempted to guilt us using the Old Testament accounts of traveling to the festivals. I'm sure that will work. It seems almost out of nowhere that the witnesses in America no longer give a flying you know what. Also our assembly ran a huge deficit so we received a letter asking for help. I don't remember that happening before. oh, and we only had 2 baptized at the assembly. Pathetic. Guess Jehovah's spirit has left.