by RubaDub 16 Replies latest jw friends
I still do not understand the new structure at this point.
There has to be something between thousands of CO's and the GB. I know there were Zone Overseers that the DO's reported to.
I have spoken to a couple of elders I can talk to frankly and they both said they have no idea.
Rub a Dub
Good question, Rub. I believe you have found a glitch in the system. With no one to answer for/to they will have no control. When the cat is away the mice will play.
Does not the CO report to the branch office?
I don't see them reporting to the branch office. Isn't that too many? I just don't see them breaking down their pyramid of power that much. I agree, there has to be something in the middle.
I don't thing they ever really reported to DO's. I know that DO's would come around periodically and work with them, but I think they reported to the Service Dept.
Service Department at the branch
the CO position has suddenly gained importance and a measure of autonomy
I am glad that I am so far away from involvment that I don't know the diff between a district and a circuit or what those guys actually are supposed to do.
I remember some kind of visits from my youth. They usually involved a invitation only lunch (never got the invite) and meetings being rearranged. We had big assemblies and little ones.
still missing the semi frozen pudding. . . I'm getting old. Vaguely recall sunstroke in Phil. assembly/convention, but that day is a little fuzzy.
JWdaughter - get some pudding and semi-freeze it dear.
I had a Circuit Overseer and his wife eat lunch with me
and it was creepy. I pointed out to him the majority of the
congregation were single moms and fatherless children and
the WT kept portraying us all as "happy two parent families"
and he got severly irritated. They are just men, all of them.
From the top GB down through the ranks. Have you met men ?
While the CO will have more perceived power and thus be treated differently and may even throw his weight around more because of the new crown, I actually think it's not much different than it has been for several years.
Here is what I mean. For probably the past 10 years or more, decisions about appointments have been 100% by what the CO decided in the congregations I have attended. This has been the case even on occasions where the entire body wanted to appoint a man. The CO said no. He didn't get appointed.
There are always exceptions to the rule, but 99% of the time this is the case all over from what I have heard.
In other words the branch has been rubber stamping the appointments for years.
DO's have just been basically on tour putting on circuit assemblies. CO's rarely had interaction with them.
-TE
