Inviting People to Meetings

HereIam60

The current Memorial invitation campaign got me thinking about the few times over the years that someone I invited to a meeting actually came:

1) Once when I was "new", I invited a friend to a Sunday meeting. Neither of us drove, so the brother conducting my study picked us up. My friend was enthused until the opening song " Walking in Integrity" began, the lyrics include "I do not sit with wicked men of lies. I hate the company of those who truth despise...With evil men take not away my life..." etc. He looked at me with an expression of "What is this ??!!". Then he took exception with something said in the Public Talk (I don't recall the subject). He got so loud that he was escorted out of the Hall. Why the brother who brought us didn't just take us home at that point, I don't know, but he wouldn't. So I sat embarrassed through the rest of the meeting, while my friend paced angrily outside smoking. After dropping him off, my study conductor actually said " Dump him!"..(I didn't).

2) My mom came to the Memorial and fell asleep during the talk.

3) A study with a couple was turned over to me. The man had no intention of leaving his church , but came to the Congregation book study a few times. His wife wouldn't after the first.

4) Another study was turned over to me, with an elderly man. He came to the Memorial with his daughter. He did not partake of the emblems but thought she should. She declined.

5) During the Covid shut down my wife got a nice reply to a letter she'd written, from a man in his 90s. We started calling him by phone, then visiting him, just because he enjoyed the company. He came to the 'special' pre-Memorial ' talk 2 years ago, but he has difficulty hearing, we have to practically yell for him to hear, and even with amplification he couldn't hear the talk clearly and the bible and magazine print was too small. Still, he said he enjoyed it.

Just reminiscing...I think it was good that they all were true to themselves and their feelings! I don't think I'll be inviting anymore, but would enjoy reading others experiences if they care to share!

NotFormer

What date is the memorandum*? I think the local JWs have turned up to invite us every year since COVID restrictions were lifted.

* It's a business, so we use business terms 😌

Balaamsass2

I used to have RVs and studies attend/visit. One bible study was memorable. A 20-something handsome conga drummer from South America. A real ladies man, not a bit shy, who loved answering...frequently off subject. He set multiple sisters' hearts a twitter. How he collected phone numbers baffled me....and when one of the sisters showed up pregnant....I was really baffled! He stopped going, though. Why? He said, "I'm looking for a good Catholic wife...JW girls are too easy".

Biahi

I remember being at the Thursday night snooze fest when, to my surprise, a girl from my class showed up, with her mom. Her mom was studying. I spoke to her after the meeting, I was kind of happy to see her (because misery loves company). They came to only a few meetings, never saw them after that. The mom quit the study. 🤷‍♀️

I think I was in 5-6th grade then.

Ugot2bekiddingme1

I remember when someone from my school showed up at the meeting. I pulled him aside and told him to quit the study and get out. You don't want this! Even when I was young I was Pimo.

blondie

I was a Physically In Mentally Out (PIMO) for several years before I stopped going. I never invited people to the KH then, why should they get involved with the same unloving organization and group of people I experienced every day. I even went back to people I had studied with and called on, and warned them not to get involved with the WTS.

Ugot2bekiddingme1

Blondie- Did you ever experience what was like a "class" system in the Kingdumb Hall? If you were not part of the upper class, you were treated badly. Seems like in every Hall there was this class system.

blondie

Yes, I did, I was on the 1) lower level because my father was not a jw and was considered to have contaminated my brother and me. 2) Then I became a pioneer and had many jw relatives, 3 elders and one MS. 3) Then my husband became an elder and one elder up came up and intimated that now I was considered more "spriritual" and I also learned how many parties the elders had for only elders and their wives. Moving on up?

Ugot2bekiddingme1

Blondie- I have been out for many years. I have become very successful in life without Jw's. It seems now these people want me back so bad. I don't read any mail from them, will not take any calls or answer the door when they are out. Seems like they want my success to fill their coffers.

blondie

I have no contact with them at all for 20 years. I had someone call me after the "new light" about being able to talk to people. I was never df'd and I never da'd myself. Just inactive. Took 20 years to contact me, live in the same place, same phone #.

Inviting People to Meetings

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