by Gill 22 Replies latest jw friends
Mary - LOL! Toooooo funny!
Upside/down - glad you made the break to soccer. Gill - also of the very unproductive class!
Cindykp - I hated running into ANYONE! I always knocked so lightly they wouldn't have heard me if they were standing with their ears to the door!
I have just had another thought though - yes it does happen sometimes - I remember talks where they said that even if no one was at home for all the time we were out in field service we were witnessing to the angels who were all watching us! Wouldn't angels have better things to do?
xjw_b12 - LMAO! Too funny!
After two hours and not one notation on the territory card, we decided to go to the donut shop.
2 hours without a coffee break???
We were never out in service? for more than 45 minutes without a pit stop at Tim Hortons.
Walter
When I was 17, we use to visit in the chicago area. I didnt mind going out there. We would stand on very busy corner next to alot of shops. But the best part was I didnt have to say anything. Just handed out pamplets! Easy enough.
I've always wondered the same thing....why weekdays when everyone is at work? Why not have the meetings in the day and the preaching in the evening?
I suspect it's because they're hoping to reach elderly/SAHMs/infirm people who would be at home on a weekday and who [they hope] would be vulnerable lonely/bored/sad.
If God really wanted people to listen to his message, he could just create a few temples with loud speakers that constantly blair his message so everyone could get it first hand. Why not do this if it is so important to him that it means your everlasting life.
Ken P.
My parents regularly visit asylum seekers accomodations (is that the correct name of it?) here in Germany. Sad enough they are quite successfull in finding victims there...
Like other posters from the UK on here.
Going back to when I was last out on "field ministry" in late 1990's . We could work a whole road and not find anyone in. Go back at different times, mornings, afternoons. evenings, weekends, only thing we never tried was calling at midnight. . But you would still have been lucky to have spoken to a dozen people in that road over a period of a month. You just knew that every JW out with you was waiting for the hour to pass then they could go off pleased with themselves.
Sometimes I watch them come down the road I live in, usually on a Sunday afternoon. I can see a row of 50 houses from where I am. Its a laugh to watch a pair of JW's worked their way down the row.
Knock or ring, stand chatting for two minutes, maybe knock or ring again, chat a bit more. Move to next house repeat.
Sometimes when someone answers door you can see the surprise on the JW's faces as their suddenly realise they have to speak to someone or show a pair of magazines. Then when householder says no and closes the door, is that a look of relief I see on the JW's face.
But when they meet the rest of the JW's out that morning, they will say what a nice talk they had with one person.
This process is repeat road after road, day after day. Then they dare say how wonderfully they are preaching the good news.
To most JWs, it's all about counting time, not about reaching the greater number. Going door-to-door is very ineffective, more so today than before, because folks are always on the go or just don't answer the door. If the Tower really wanted to reach more people in order to save the lost souls, they could buy media time and print, and spread the so-called Good News (if you're not a JW, God will kill you). But that would cost the Tower money. They have millions of little slaves going door-to-door; yes it's not effective, but it's free to the Tower. I'm sure Jehovah understands the bottom line, and has passed this on to the Tower. :-)
