How frequent is this among Jehovah's Witnesses (page 3)

LV101

It won't do any good if they do read it -- they know and have structured the evil system.

Beth Sarim

No. It wouldn't do any good if they do read this.

We've heard AM3 at the very top with his very ignorant ""we are certainly NOT going to do that"",,in regards to their policies like that of disfellowshipping.

I have no reason to believe PIMI elders or the vast majority of elders are any different.

AtLeastImNot

The Kingdom Hall is no place for Christians.

My wife’s gran has been in an old people’s home since 2018 and she gets a visit from an elder every Sunday afternoon, which I think is quite good. There are two JWs in the home and the elder visits them both at the same time. And it’s not a particularly easy visit because she is very forgetful and not particularly interested in JW things now. I think she does watch the videos the elder shows her but I’ve no idea what she makes of them.

On the negative side, it’s always the same elder who visits and always alone. Can’t they mix it up a bit? And it’s not anyone she knew when she was younger because the home is in a different territory some miles away. To my knowledge, none of the JWs she knew has come to visit her, although she had dozens of JWs in her home over the years. To be fair, a majority of the JWs she knew are no longer around now because she is 94 and most of them are dead, but there are a few younger JWs around who should remember her.

DesirousOfChange

To my knowledge, none of the JWs she knew has come to visit her, although she had dozens of JWs in her home over the years. To be fair, a majority of the JWs she knew are no longer around now because she is 94 and most of them are dead, but there are a few younger JWs around who should remember her.

It's simple. In the past she gave her time, her assets, her hospitality, and even her love & friendship to them, but now -- she has nothing more to offer to them -- so she has simply been forgotten -- off their radar because their radar only alerts them to what they can GET from her.

Rivergang

According to Raymond Franz, in Crisis of Conscience, the then president of the Watchtower Society once even volunteered that the JWs do not care for the welfare of their rank and file members. Furthermore, he (Nathan Knorr) then went on to admit that such groups as the LDS do a much better job of that than the Witnesses.

What else is there to say?

JohnR1975

What can the elders do to take better care? They can ask members of the congregation to call round?

there seems to be less door to door or first call these days and more welfare visits instead.

you get more kudos points if you go to ministry group and say you are doing welfare visits today.

then at the coffee break later others hear about it and think oh I want to do that instead of door to door

How frequent is this among Jehovah's Witnesses