Name responsibilities that sisters could have had at the hall

by JH 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  JH

  Name responsibilities that sisters could have had at the hall, that doesn't go against bible principles?

  Why couldn't they have passed the microphone?
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  Ellie

  I don't know, but it seems the only thing they are allowed to do is clean it
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  outnfree

  
  By Bible principles, I take it you mean that women aren't to be "teachers" in the congregation? (Because otherwise I am of the "anything he can do, she can do better [or at least as well]" class.)

  If so, perhaps add Literature servant, Accounts servant, greeting people as they come into the KH, to passing the microphone. Oh! Taking charge of scheduling the CO/DO's meals and Bible studies/RVs for those "special weeks of activity," and ordering/handing out a sufficient number of parking stickers for the conventions, too.

  out
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  lola28

  Sisters and responsibilities? If that isn’t an oxymoron I don't know what is.

  lola
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  mrsjones5

  Sisters and responsibilities

  Actually it's not an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms (e.g. "deafening silence"), unless you're trying to say that sisters or women aren't very responsible.

  Josie
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  blondie

  It all depends on the size of the congregation and the availability of brothers. In the history of the WTS, there were many congregations made of women entirely. It has only been since the 70's that there have been enough men for the WTS to even consider bodies of elders.

  In small congregations, there may be no qualified brothers or very few. I have seen and heard of sisters handling sound/microphones in remote congregations.

  I went to a congregation where a sister handled the literature/magazines/territory/accounts. There was only one baptized brother and he was 15. They finally imported a congregation servant who handled all the official paperwork, signatures, letters, etc.

  I have attended book studies where a sister "conducted" it. More like, moderated it without asking any auxiliary questions, sort of the way the sisters handle the discussion of the day's text during the week where there are no brothers present.

  Sisters also have been used to audit the accounts.

  In the 40's and 50's especially, there would be whole congregations of just sisters.

  The old OM book on pages 77-78 says:

  "If none qualify, as in the case of a group made up entirely of sisters, the branch office will designate one of them to care for correspondence with the office and to carry on meetings."

  *** yb02 pp. 172-173 Ukraine ***

  Michael Dasevich, an eyewitness of those events, recalls: "Exile to Siberia did not directly affect me because when the lists of those to be exiled were prepared, I was still in Russia, serving a prison term. Shortly after I returned to Ukraine, most Witnesses from my area were sent to Siberia. So I had to search for individual Witnesses who had lost contact with the organization and to organize them into book study groups and congregations. It meant that I began to fulfill the responsibilities of a circuit overseer, though there was nobody to assign me to do such work. Each month I would visit all the congregations, collect reports, and distribute from one congregation to another the literature that we still possessed. Often, our sisters carried out the work of congregation servants, and in some areas they fulfilled the responsibilities of circuit servants, since brothers were not available.

  AS TOLD BY MELBA BARRY

  *** w01 4/1 p. 25 We Were a Team ***

  Because there were no brothers available, soon after my baptism, I was given congregational responsibilities ordinarily reserved for Christian men.

  Blondie
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  Mysterious

  If they wanted to be strict about the "teachers" part then sisters should not have given demonstrations even. After all the purpose of these was to teach a point. But my guess is there were not enough men that wanted these less important roles so they let the sisters do it.

  But yeah. Aside from scrubbing toilets there werent many jobs for women. But I had heard about some congregations that were short handed that let them work the literature counter etc. I guess they are more out of the way there.
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  Low-Key Lysmith

  This topic brings me back to a time when we were about to have a meal at my aunt's house. I was there with my Mom and I was the only male there. (I think I was around ten years old.) The debate came up about who should say the prayer. My aunt finally decided to do it, and for the head covering, she used a paper towel. I to this day remember thinking how rediculous she looked standing there with a paper towel on her head thanking Joe Hoover for the spaghetti and meatballs.
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  proplog2

  Sisters don't count. They are not alowed to keep track of the number in attendance.
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  Satanus

  Keeping coffee and pastries always on hand at the meetings and whatnot would have been a good responsibility for them. That would free up the brothers for more important things, like consuming said coffee and pastries

  S