WT wants members to auxiliary pioneer in place of vacations now!!!

EndofMysteries

The May 2014 KM, posted in another thread is a link to download it.

Page 2, for week starting May 19th under the Service Meeting:

"Can You Auxiliary Pioneer During Your Vacation? Discussion. Invite those who have auxiliary pioneered during their vacation from work to comment on the blessings they enjoyed. Encourage all to consider auxiliary pioneering during their next vacation."

O yea I can just see how eager, after working 40 possibly 60 hours a week for 50 or 51 weeks washing windows because higher education is a tool of Satan, that they finally can have 1 week or so to take a long relaxing vacation or travel somewhere, but they should instead auxiliary pioneer that week and donate the vacation money to the worldwide work.

Right after this part is, "Cultivate the Habit of Being Punctual." where they talk about how JW's should be right on time for EVERYTHING in their lives, meetings, works, anything, and how that brings honor to the image of the Governing Body and how true christians are punctual for all things and if you have a problem you should pray to be more punctual.

I wonder if anybody kills themself after that meeting.

hoser

I don't think this is anything new. They did used to call it vacation pioneering

EndofMysteries

Pretty soon the 'spiritual' ones will be sticking their noses up real high and those who take a real vacation will be viewed as spiritually weak, etc.

Because if anybody is having even a tiny bit of enjoyment or relaxation, it's a sin and they should be doing more. And being casually late is dishorable to God.

subytrek

Wow, that is ridiculous. I do remember auxiliary pioneering being subtly encouraged during the month of the memorial and the summer since people have some time off but to explicitly encourage them to use their vacation time to pioneer is too much, IMO. People need a break.

jam

Back in the day vacation pioneering, serve where the need is great.

Places like Belize, Hunduras, Gauatemala, mid west states. No fun

vacation pioneering in your own territory, that sucks.

Unfortunately the RF can not afford that today.

DATA-DOG

I'm doing a "staycation" where I hand out flyers for jwfacts.com.

DD

gingerbread

We had a visit from a brother who came into the 'truth' in the congregation where I grew up. His 'former' life was a hippy commune carpenter.

Anyhow, he was visiting us from Bethel - the brothers pooled some money together to pay for his round trip flight - and gave a 'report' on Bethel after the WT study.

When we were leaving the Hall I told this guy (I really looked up to him) to have a nice rest of the summer and take it easy. It was an off handed comment from my teenage self. He says to me "We don't have the time to take it easy!! The end could come any day now. Maybe you should be temporary pioneering this summer....".

I thought "what an arrogant jackass".

That was back in the late 1970's. He's still not "taking it easy" for the Org. in Walkill. He's now in his mid-60's.

ginger

FirstLastName

I remember one summer, going to a remote congregation for a week with a caravan of people from our hall and we helped that congregation complete a huge chunk of their entire territory that week. We were out in service every day, all day. I think the last day or two of the week, we took half days to "enjoy the vacation".

I think I was 15 or so at the time and I had all my friends with me so I did not mind it. I dont think we were very serious about recruiting people, more enjoying spending all our days together and making the most of it.

There are definatley other things I would have rather been doing, but at the time, when you dont know any different, its not that weird to you.

ruderedhead

The vacation pioneering is not new, but did they actually say that being punctual brings honor to the image of the governing body?!!!! NOT JEHOVAH???? SERIOUSLY? That is just a little mind blowing.

mynameislame

Ruderhead, I can't find where it says "that being punctual brings honor to the image of the governing body"

While looking I noticed that it said "if we are habitually late, it gives others the impression that we consider our time to be more valuable than theirs"

Who are these others that they are speaking of?

Seems like an effort keep people in line by creating peer pressure where there wouldn't normally be any.

And as molybdenum pointed out in another thread, they say that "Punctuality has become the exception during these last day"

Says who?

WT wants members to auxiliary pioneer in place of vacations now!!!

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