Thursday, May 5 Local Needs

TheListener

For those of you who still attend what was your local needs about?

Ours was about getting more hours in the ministry.

IronGland

Reality TV is taking away from the ministry.

blondie

Local Needs = Talks about the congregation's problems

Never a commendation that isn't a lead into a harangue that you are DOING ENOUGH. (sorry)

You can put frosting on a horse apple and it still tastes like s---------

Blondie

PS I know that the BOE struggles to come up with a topic and usually sticks some junior elder with giving it.

Soledad

our local needs talks were often very "scandalous."

a couple of highlights from years past:

why young witness girls shouldn't use tampons
don't hire 10 piece orchestras and rent rolls royces for your weddings, they are much too ostentacious
and speaking of weddings, only marry people that are BOE approved
depression---not a real disease, just an excuse to not go out in field service or to meetings
herbal and homeopathic medicine---tools of satan the devil
you all are messy slobs

the people would talk about those "talks" while shuffling from door to door for years!!

inbyathread

Someone asked me to send this one in.

"We got to see a movie.

A Brother from NY (Bethel?) came and showed a Video of the Expansion Work at Patterson or Walkill. Where ever the new presses are. How so much work is being done. Of course we did get the commercial that this could not be done without the voluntary donations that are so lovingly given."

sweet tee

Haven't been to a KH in years ... but the best of the worst local needs talks was about sisters keeping themselves clean during menstruation (I kid you not!) AND ... general body odor issues.

Disgusting, isn't it?

luna2

Some of those are unbelievable!

General B.O. problems and keeping yourself clean during your period? That's a local need to be addressed? Must have been lots o' smelly brothers and sisters in that congregation, sweet tee. Sheesh! I hope whoever put that forth as a topic had to present it himself and didn't shove it off on someone else. LMAO

I'm cracking up at Soledad's list there too. What a riot! I can't remember any local needs talks that were as interesting as those.