Good morning,
I translate for you with Google Translate (and copy from e-Watchman forum)
My Englisch is very, very bad
From Saturday, September 17, 2022 to Saturday, December 17, 2022, I sent via regular mail
The Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and St. Maarten
81 Kingdom Halls received the Letter September 17, 2022 in the mailbox of the Kingdom Hall
Those 81 Kingdom Halls housed 159 different congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
So about 159 x 4 elders, 636 elders should have seen the letter on paper.
536 elders received the letter via WhatsApp.
53 elders received the URL to the letter via SMS on Saturday, January 14, 2023.
Project Jehovah starts Weekend September 17, 2022
The Netherlands, Belgium, Surinam,
Caribbean Islands (all Dutch language) 224 elders
Australia 115 elders
England 66 elders
Guyana 19 elders
Ireland 35 elders
Northern Ireland 13 elders
New Zealand 19 elders
Scotland 24 elders
Congregation English Rest of the World 21 elders
Total 536 elders
Letter sent by regular Mail to 81 Kingdom Halls (159 congregations of Jehovah Witnesses) 636 elders
Total elders who could read the letter 1172 elders
I wrote my first letter in 1996 and the last letter was October 18, 2018.
In those years I wrote dozens.
After my wife Vera died april 22, 2022 (not vaccinated, just cancer, 59 years old) I didn't think about writing a letter in connection with Jehovah's Witnesses.
My 92-year-old mother-in-law has been a witness for over 60 years and did not want conversation because of my "disfellowshipping".
In 2005 a few weeks after Governing Body member Ted Jaracz was in my hometown of Utrecht and I wrote him a letter
https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf I was "disfellowshipped" (I remember the same week in July when Robert King was also
"disfellowshipped"?).
My mother-in-law entered the retirement home on April 21, 2022 and her daughter Vera died a day later.
The whole family watched tensely how my mother-in-law would react to me during the funeral on April 29, 2022.
She came in and everyone was amazed that she hugged me and cried.
After the ceremony in the parking lot, she asked me to visit her.
Since that week till now I visit her twice a week.
Last summer she complained about not coming to the Kingdom Hall.
Brothers pick her up for meetings twice a week.
She is extremely forgetful due to age (dementia).
You can talk to her very well; she is just sometimes confused by memory loss.
So, because there was uncertainty about whether she would come to the Kingdom Hall, I went to check it out on a Sunday morning.
Who picked her up and where did she go? So, she went to the brother and sister's house via ZOOM to the Congress program
of the Watchtower Society. She did not go to the Kingdom Hall during those weeks.
I then decided to go to the Kingdom cause with her on Saturdays myself.
On Saturday, August 27, 2022, I immediately had a discussion in the Kingdom Hall because I did not want to wear a face mask. The week after.
Saturday September 3, 2022, I had a short and friendly conversation with two elders in which I explained
that in fact I can never be disfellowshipped because the Watchtower had already disfellowshipped itself from Jehovah's Witnesses :)
Saturday, August 10, 2022, the elder I had spoken to the week before said to a sister so that I could hear: "This gentleman is disfellowshipped and he knows it".
Immediately came to mind: "You get a letter".
In that week I wrote the September 17, 2022 letter and started "PROJECT JEHOVAH".
In the early morning of Saturday, September 17, I delivered by car in Utrecht (the Netherlands)
and the surrounding area at 8 Kingdom Halls personally, the letter in their mailbox.
When I went to the meeting with my mother-in-law that evening, many elders were waiting for me and I was allowed
not enter the Kingdom Hall.
My mother-in-law who is 92 and over 60 years "in the truth" was also turned away.
But she just stepped in.
My own mother lives around the corner, so I promised to drink coffee there and pick up my mother-in-law after the meeting.
I told the elders that I was glad not to be allowed back into the Kingdom Hall because then I would keep my promise
to my mother-in-law by going to the meeting with her every week.
I sing in my mind as I walked away from the Kingdom Hall that night:
"Raindrops are falling on my head
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
But there's one thing I know
Won't defeat me, it won't be long
Till happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free
Nothing's worrying me"
That week - when I wrote the letter - on the night shift, I saw the video below for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyA2f6hGW4
"Till happiness steps up to greet me", I thought of my wife Vera in the resurrection.
And when I walked away from the Kingdom Hall after being denied:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head
Because I'm free".
I delivered the first letters by car.Then 1 by train (Vera worked for the railways, so I have free travel)Then I decided to send the letters via regular mail delivery.And then I came up with the idea of sending the letter via WhatsApp.
And last week I suddenly thought I could use SMS if brothers didn't have WhatsApp.
I didn't plant anything; it all went by itself.
Week January 26, I translated the letter into English myself via Google Translate.
PROJECT JEHOVAH: The letter of September 17, 2020 is online at:
English: https://jehovah.nu/letter2022.pdf Dutch: https://jehovah.nu/brief2022.pdf
The letter to Ted Jaracz: https://jehovah.nu/letter2005.pdf Why the Watchtower Society has been disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses: Six Points Which Lead To An Inevitable Conclusion Regarding the WTBTS https://jehovah.nu/the-six-points.html
Letters 2005 in English translated by Ezra S. (In those years the Dutch translator of e-watchman.be)