The Reasons for Cart Witnessing (page 7)

wannaexit

.....but not every member of a jw congregation can do cart work. The "privilege" is given to pioneers and a few select prominent ones in the congregations.

As Pheobe said " a lot of ordinary brothers and sisters are still going door to door".

DesirousOfChange

As Pheobe said " a lot of ordinary brothers and sisters are still going door to door".

A lot of ordinary brothers and sisters are still going ~~door to door~~ to Starbucks".

(There, I fixed that for you!)

Bungi Bill

but not every member of a jw congregation can do cart work. The "privilege" is given to pioneers and a few select prominent ones in the congregations.

Sounds like yet another example of "its not for bastards like you"!

The apathy cart may make things easier for the select few, but everybody else has to firstly win their spurs, before receiving this "priviledge".

That may involve some pounding of the pavement in genuine door-to-door work. More likley though, as DesirousOfChange pointed out, "winning ones spurs" is done by sloping off to Sturbucks at first opportunity (or some other ingenious ways of clocking up impressive numbers of "hours" with minimal effort).

steve2

The cart work proves there are levels of “cleanness” in the organization - which is an unintended admission that a god awful number of JWs DON’T measure up for the cart work.Yet they “qualify” for door-to-door work?

So if you’re a JW you DON’T need to sign an application form to verify you are in good standing to door-knock and directly meet and talk to people in their homes but if you passively stand or sit next to a literature cart, you have to sign a declaration of good standing plus answer a number of other questions about your reputation before you are approved for the cart work. This is a further proof that JW organization is more interested in reputation than moral standing. Like the Pharisees of old, the focus is on levels of cleanliness and following human organisational rules and regulations.

newdawnfades

A few of the posters here are a bit confused. Any Publisher can man the cart. However not anyone can man the cart in what is designated a metropolitan cart location. "Met Witnessing" as it is known is exactly the same as your local Dubs manning the cart at a local station in Hicksville, but in the big city. The carts in the centre of the big city are manned all the time by specially approved Publishers who are given a time slot for their turn, usually three hours, weeks in advance. They may travel a long distance to do this. They get to count their travelling time and get a break which they can count too. The local carts which you see outside tourist hot spots in big cities are manned by any publisher who fancies getting a few hours in while chatting to their friends.

Gorbatchov

Here in Holland there was an article in a nation wide newspaper about the Cart replacing the house to house work.

One of the jw’s said: “there is a selection, because we don’t want an old age person behind the Cart it must look fresh”.

G.

fulano

Which paper and when G?

Gorbatchov

This is the translated quote:

“acknowledgment at the station is not for everyone, says Stet. "We are looking for representative people: young, well-dressed, a friendly smile, and just as cru: people are not convinced by a crippled old person.”

Here the news paper issue:

https://www.trouw.nl/home/de-nieuwe-strategie-van-de-jehova-s-getuigen~a026f3e5/

Vidiot

Wasn't there also a WT rep in Europe who let it slip that the Org was quietly "moving away from door-to-door-type ministry" a couple years back?

stillMS

Any Publisher can man the cart

@newdawnfades - I can't agree with that completely: I could suggest there are congos out there where it's true, but it's definitely not the case everywhere. IMHO, it depends on how closely the local elders follow the directions from the branch. At the same time, metropolitan cart is definitely different level of access, almost unreachable for a rank-and-file jdub (can't say that's a big deal, but it's yet one more stupid & annoying arrangement).

The Reasons for Cart Witnessing

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