One could rightly expect, considering the urgency of the times, and the need 'to preach the good news of the kingdomTM' before the end arrives, that jws would be doing all they could to encourage 'like-heartedTM' ones along to their place of worship/study/meeting (or whatever they wish to call their kingdom hallsTM). Instead, from my observations, they are doing their best to make the halls as uninviting as possible.
The case in point. Several days ago I drove past the front entrance to the fairly new kingdom hall in Ballina where I spent my formative years in 'the truthTM'. The congregation that is, as the hall then was the one that had been used before the building of a newer one.
The neat new hall is on a large expanse of well maintained land with exposure to the main east coast north/south highway (The Pacific), but with the entrance off a small arterial road in an old industrial estate, fronting a large creek. The property is enclosed with a chain-mesh fence topped with barbed wire and with a steel barred gate. There are no means from the highway, when passing, to be able to identify that this building is a kingdom hall. No letterbox.
And it doesn't improve when you go to the entrance. No welcome sign. No sign to state that this is a 'kingdom hall of jehovahs witnessesTM'. Just a small sign that says -
Ballina congregation
Meeting times
public talk etc, etc,
Perhaps the dear brothers believe that the jws are so well known that the average joe blow will know to associate public talk, watchtower, theocratic ministry school, service meeting, book study with these widely self acknowledged evangelists.
It would make you feel as about as welcome as a pork chop in a synagogue.
cheeses. it looked like a prison farm