Were there any professionals in your congregation?

by JH 29 Replies latest jw friends

  • lucky
    lucky


    I can't say that I entirely agree with Blondie, at least according to my experience. I grew up in one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S., with a highly educated general population. I believe that my mom was one of the very few in the three congregations in my town who had been to college. Only two of the many elders and ministerial servants had college degrees; one was an accountant, I'm not sure what the other one did exactly. Most of the brothers in the congregation were janitors or in construction trades.

    I went to college in a typical "college town". I think only one of the elders and ministerial servants in the two congregations there had a college degree.

    When I moved to "where the need was greater" to a dinky community of a few thousand in the middle of nowhere, three of the four elders in the congregation had graduated from ivy league colleges. Of course, they had moved to where the need was greater, too, and none of them lasted too long.

  • delilah
    delilah

    Yup, a couple of Firefighters, and LOTS of professional bullsh%$#rs....

  • Darth Yhwh
    Darth Yhwh

    Witnesses are allowed to be firefighters????? This is shocking news to me???!!!

  • Reefton Jack
    Reefton Jack

    Only in one congregation that I was with were there any who had university degrees:

    - one was a doctor.

    - the other had a some sort of a degree in transport.

    - a third had a degree in creative arts.

    But that was all - in about every other congregation I was with, going to university would have just about got you disfellowshipped!

  • XBEHERE
    XBEHERE
    It all depends on how many professionals there are in the general area

    Exactly. You wont find very many Ad Execs or Computer Network Engineers out in the potato farms in Idaho. In my cong one elder is a Dr.

  • Doubtfully Yours
    Doubtfully Yours

    This congregation I attend (seldom) has a couple of nurses, a doctor, a couple of CPAs. However, many janitors and CNAs, a couple of car mechanics, painters, and plumbers.

    DY

  • JH
    JH
    one was a doctor.

    I guess that most witnesses in your congregation had him as doctor...

    We have a car mechanic in our congregation, and many go to his garage to get their oil changed and more...but I only went a few times to his garage, because it cost me more for an oil change at his garage than at the garage where I bought my car....and every job he did was more expensive than where I bought my car....

  • Legolas
    Legolas

    Yes my husband is an engineer....BUT that was before we were 'witnesses'!

  • caligirl
    caligirl

    Mostly professional windo washers, cleaners, etc. Since we had an Ivy League college in the territory, there were always a few who came and went who were in the process of getting their degree, but the fact that they were studens was never really discussed publicly (wouldn't want to encourage education or anything) but they were accepted to my knowledge without being limited in their priviledges.

  • Reefton Jack
    Reefton Jack

    JH - we had a similar difficulty with the doctor as you had with the mechanic!

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