just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
Nugget said: "what we once did not believe was possible has proven to be business a usual. this organisation has changed radically since I was baptised and will continue to do so. The rumours of today are possibly closer to the truth than we could imagine."
Not long ago I would never have imagined that they would be putting ATM's at the assembly halls. They've condemned the churches for this. Now they're doing it too.
i couldn't take video to avoid blowing my cover.
the audio quality could be better.
can anyone enhance it?.
I remember well the hot assemblies at the Silverdome. But the worst assembly I remember was at the State fairgrounds in Detroit (1964). We thought at first it was a tornado hitting. The wind blew over the speaker's stand, and the program had to stop for awhile. We were sitting back under a roofed area and thought we would be OK. But the wind drove the rain horizontally back into the grandstand. We put up an umbrella but it turned inside out and rain drenched our clothes and our bookbags. After the weather cleared, we saw men walking around in wet suits that looked like they were shrinking on their bodies, and women had makeup running down their faces. A lot of people left, but not me. The program resumed after maybe half an hour. And, being the good J Dub that I was, I sat and listened to the revealing of a "new truth" regarding the resurrection.
Some of us thought we were going to need a resurrection.
look for it in the yearbook next year.
there was an assembly the day of the big mudslide in washington last saturday.
a sister's life was saved because she obediently attended the assembly and thus was not home when a huge mudslide hit her neighborhood and buried and killed lots of people.
Assumptions!...Shortly after 9-11, I remember an email circulating about a brother who turned down an opportunity to have a promising career where he would worked in the twin towers. Instead he decided to serve Jehovah more fully by pioneering which proved to be a protection. I believe the email was quoting a talk from a CO. Wish I'd saved the email.
i was raised with this belief, that we would never die and actually make it into the "new system".
mu faithful jw aunt still talked about my mother (her sister) and her walking together into the great tribulation--- and never die at all!
she spoke of that 2 days before she passed away.. i believe most witnesses expect to die and then get resurrected.
Clyde and I started a list a few months ago called "Millions Now Living Now Dead." We have 112 names so far of people who thought they were going to live forever but are no longer with us. I'm sure there could be many more names as we were associated over 40 years, but we lost track of a lot of people.
Bonnie
just one but he has to be constantly ready to replace it at a moments notice..
It could take as few as two. One to hold the light bulb and two more to turn the ladder.
just a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.
i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.
) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.
"Why should you have to wait a year & for an assembly to get baptised?
The early christians seemed to use any body of water for baptism at any time a person wanted to be baptised."
That's right - I was baptized in a lake. We were car pooled from the assembly for the baptism. That was in 1956.
It was summertime.
thete are a lot of derocatory comments sbout witnesses and cleaning windows.
as a former window cleaner i can say:-.
a. i started my self employment at 17.. b. i built the round with my own initiative.. c. i was soon making 4 times the average hourly wage.. d. i was afraid of heights, but as the round grew i employed 2 people.. e. it exspanded to gardening painting and decorating ect, ect,.
I remember the talks at the circuit assemblies where they interviewed young brothers who started their own window washing and carpet cleaning businesses and what a blessing...they could make good money doing jobs that "worldly" people didn't want, and they had time to serve Jehovah.
Years later they found that they have a ton of competition as many "worldly" people found they could also make good money doing the same thing.
Many brothers also developed health problems which made it difficult to do their job. The could hire employees, usually JW's, but they weren't always dependable.
my memory of singing the kingdom songs go back to when i was a child in the 1950's.
they still hold a place in my memory and my heart.
how can something that is so much a part of your childhood not stay embedded in your heart.?.
Emma - I have a copy of the green song book. Would you like to take a look at it?
Bonnie
haven't heard anything more about this case.
aren't they supposed to bring jonathan holt to trial in 2014 ?.
Haven't heard anything more about this case. Aren't they supposed to bring Jonathan Holt to trial in 2014 ?
so, harold camping has died at the age of 92. no more end of the world predictions from him.
he apparently went into hiding after his last predictions didn't come true..
My apologies, it was Armstrong who was a JW first, then branched off to create the Worldwide Church of God. (Yes! He WAS a JW first)
I wrote Herbert Armstrong a letter 50 years ago asking if he had ever been a JW, and he wrote back saying he had never been a JW but that he did subscribe to the Watchtower....unless he was lying.
