Big Cull of Foreign Language Groups and Congregations

eyeslice

I overheard Mrs Eyeslice listening to '2021 Governing Body Update 3' yesterday. Apparently, they have started ditching foreign language groups and congregations as these weren't exactly roping anyone in. Of course there is a positive spin on all this - '4,000 plus elders freed up to serve in local language congregations' and of course there has been immensely positive feedback from various branches about the benefits of this.

I suspect though there will be an awful lot of elders who were serving as king pins in these congregations who are going to have their noses put out by going back to local language congregations where they will barely be used. Also, there won't be the opportunity to share 'experiences' at assemblies from the work these do - the sort of 'we have been studying Chinese for 5 years now and recently we met a lonely student from China who has take the truth back to 10 million people back home in China'.

All of this cut back of course because of Jehovah's rich blessings being poured out.

waton

It is the cull because of the lull. the more "elders" in the combined congregations the better. true believers vs "need greaters" my needs to advance

asp59

Elders in does congregation not gonna be happy. But it's another step of going online, and use webpage to preach with information in different languages there.

resolute Bandicoot

Great news!

RB.

IWant2Leave

It’s because many elders are getting up in age and some, like myself are stepping aside(resigning). The elders have as much congregation business/financial/legal to handle as they do spiritual. I know several elders in my area who are awake, PIMO, but can’t make a clean break right now because of the shunning policy.

For some foreign language was a way to get away. Now they are needed back in their old congregations because of shrinking numbers in the elder ranks

road to nowhere

Did you catch that almost all indigenous language speakers also speak the majority language?

Who ever thought anyone would travel 25 miles to attend meetings in Mongolian pidgeon? Are they selling off remote translating offices?

Anna Marina

Agree with IWant2Leave - I knew quite a few who went to foreign lang congs because they did not agree with the fake doctrines and found it easier to listen to them in a language they didn't understand.

But a recent comment from elder went like this 'we recognise the pattern of language from the FDS, every other pattern of speech is from Satan.'

Wonder what pattern of speech they'll come back with if they've had 10 years in a Spanish, Chinese or Sign Lang congregation ducking and diving? The foreign lang cong was the final hiding place. Next step is either fade/exit or go along with it all.

Road to Nowhere - took me a while to work out why we had a Sign Language group but rarely any deaf people. They used to sign whole meetings for those that could hear perfectly well. And they'd do the song as well.

hoser

It’s all virtue signalling IMO. The whole religion is made up of soulless people who have been made to feel so ashamed that they need to showboat.

The foreign language and need greater programs at least allowed them to feel a little better than the low hour single mother that sits in the back of the Kingdom Hall. Now it’s been taken away.

waton

I WOULD NEVER HAVE TURNED TO THAT RELIGION IN MY MOTHER TONGUE.

BluesBrother

Yep.... a friend of mine who still attends his congregation meetings told me that at one time a number of deaf ones attended. They made them into a ‘deaf group ‘ using signed material. Later they became the Deaf Congregation, with support from others who had learned sign language.

Before lockdown they were reduced to a group using a back room at his meetings. I wonder if that will continue in the future, I doubt it .

Big Cull of Foreign Language Groups and Congregations

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