Worldwide Benefits ( USELESSNESS ) of Cart Witnessing

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  Beth Sarim

  It was to my understanding that in order to get to stand by the apathy carts,,,,that your ''hours" had to be exemplary.

  Not anymore.

  Just check a box. 😏
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  Beth Sarim

  Just stand there by a cart now & tick a box.
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  Journeyman

  Haven't seen any carts near me in the usual places for ages now - have they slacked off because they don't have to report ministry the same way now I wonder??

  Anecdotally, from my area of the UK that does seem to be the case. There seem to be far fewer publishers taking out the carts on a regular basis, even now. In the past, although the numbers would drop in the winter, in summer it would increase again and we would have many - up to a few dozen - doing the work at various places outside parks and shopping centres each week. This summer though, numbers have barely risen from their winter low. Just the same hardcore 10-12 people.
  
  

  It was to my understanding that in order to get to stand by the apathy carts,,,,that your ''hours" had to be exemplary.

  Yes, I do wonder how elders are supposed to determine who is "exemplary" by JW standards now - unless they are "pioneers", who still have to report hours. And even then, if the pioneers I know of are anything to go by, most of them are struggling to meet their hours due to overwork, depression, loneliness and various health issues. Or conversely, they are the long-time pioneers who seem to treat it as a "career" and jet off on holidays and disappear frequently to visit other friends and congregations, while still seeming to complete their pioneering each year.
  
  

  Of course, elders could look at how well someone is showing all the "fruitage of the spirit" rather than just quantitative measures like how many meetings they are at, how many talks and comments they give and so on, but the org has always been driven by numbers over actual qualities.
  
  There's supposed to be some big campaign coming in October in London to push the ministry, with Witnesses from outside the UK coming to the capital to assist in a mass preaching campaign. It will include both house-to-house and "public witnessing" (more carts).

  We'll see by November if it turns into something noticeable or just another here-today-gone-tomorrow "nothing burger". It's certainly an odd time to choose. October in the UK is not the best time with darker evenings closing in, and it's likely to be colder with more unpredictable weather. Some time between the Memorial and the start of the so-called "convention season", maybe in April, May on June, would probably have been better. I'm not sure if the decision on the date was made by the UK Branch, but if feels more like another example of an out-of-touch GB in the USA making decisions for other countries.
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  NotFormer

  "I'm not sure if the decision on the date was made by the UK Branch, but if feels more like another example of an out-of-touch GB in the USA making decisions for other countries"

  I'm imagining the GB huddled around their wargame board, moving the pieces around, totally oblivious to field conditions in the real world. 😸
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  Beth Sarim

  The governing body has no idea of how to make it in the real world.🦊
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  LongHairGal

  BETH SARIM:

  If they weren’t raised a Witness they might have some idea how things in the world work, but it would be extremely hard for an older person. If they were a sheltered born-in, they know next to nothing.

  If any of them came from money, it might not matter because they have a cushion to land on.

  I can’t stress enough how glad I am today I was not raised in the Witness religion. That fact may have saved me by keeping me grounded in reality!.. I was working full-time when the obedient ‘spiritual’ JWs were doing door to door, gossiping in car groups and feeling accepted and going on coffee breaks! .. Maybe some turned out okay and can pay their bills. Others are going to have to ask their ‘spiritual’ friends for help!
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  Gorb

  A close family member is coordinating the chart work here in the region. It is a great success, he told me. I asked, how? Because Jehovah sees what you do, he said.

  You can’t win from this irrational arguments.

  Gorby