thanks - please check out the post I made a couple of hours ago below which included television/video reports:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6249130605150208/_post/6110172306997248
rhonda lerocque attended the kingdom hall of wilmington, ma.
my brother and his family were part of that cong back in the day, although i don't know if they knew.. a mother, wife, sister, daughter, etc, etc.. please pray for her and all of those involved..
thanks - please check out the post I made a couple of hours ago below which included television/video reports:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6249130605150208/_post/6110172306997248
first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.
now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.
whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.
FYI
Link includes a video report
'It just didn't make sense': Tewksbury mother killed in Vegas
Fox25 Boston, Monday, October 2, 2017
TEWKSBURY, Mass. - A Tewksbury mother was among those shot and killed at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas Sunday night, her family told Boston 25 News.
Rhonda LeRocque was at the concert with her husband, Jason, her 6-year-old daughter and her father-in-law, family said. Her father-in-law had just left the concert with Rhonda’s 6-year-old daughter when the shooting started.
According to family, Rhonda was shot in the back of the head.
She and Jason had been married for 20 years after they met at Kingdom Hall, where Jason is a minister.
Members of the family's congregation are traveling to Las Vegas to escort the family and Rhonda's body home.
READ FULL ARTICLE (with video report): http://www.fox25boston.com/news/it-just-didnt-make-sense-tewksbury-mother-killed-in-vegas/618336619
Video report from CBS Boston:
jwvictims.org has another breaking news article out of canada: https://jwvictims.org/2017/10/02/breaking-news-66-million-class-action-suit-request-filed-against-jws-in-canada/.
Crazyguy: The article doesn't say how many victims are suingthe WT, dies anyone know?
In Quebec the rate was $250,000 CAN each ($203,000 US)
Therefore $66million / $250,000 = 264
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5750716427665408/_post/5202119181205504
i am quite interested in something mike and kim said in their video when talking about why their you tube videos are being taken down.
in their video below, at around 35 seconds.
mike say's that he has being trying to tell people that the boys in pennsylvania are the real power behind watchtower - not the governing body?.
Hey Newly Enlightened
What's happening to Mike Kim Ministries Inc - has it closed down?
i am quite interested in something mike and kim said in their video when talking about why their you tube videos are being taken down.
in their video below, at around 35 seconds.
mike say's that he has being trying to tell people that the boys in pennsylvania are the real power behind watchtower - not the governing body?.
To add to the above....
To obtain more information on the Pennsylvania Corporations, copy the Entity Number into the search box on the PA Corporations webpage then you can click through and get hold of the various available paperwork and documents you are interested in
https://www.corporations.pa.gov/search/corpsearch
Entity Number: 381206 - Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Entity Number: 2948736 - Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
i am quite interested in something mike and kim said in their video when talking about why their you tube videos are being taken down.
in their video below, at around 35 seconds.
mike say's that he has being trying to tell people that the boys in pennsylvania are the real power behind watchtower - not the governing body?.
UnshackleTheChains: So what I would like to know is if anyone has further information about 'The boys in Pennsylvania'? Who are they? Is there pictures of Watchtowers Pennsylvania buildings etc?
Annual meetings of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania have been held since January of 1885 - they are now held annually each October - the next one is this coming weekend!!!!
Watchtower January 15, 2001, page 29
The Pennsylvania corporation is not the only legal entity used by Jehovah’s Witnesses. There are others. One is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Incorporated. It facilitates our work in the United States. Jehovah’s blessing has clearly been upon that corporation, though its directors and officers have been mainly of the “other sheep.” The International Bible Students Association is used in Britain. Other legal entities are used to promote Kingdom interests in other lands.
Kingdom Ministry January 2002, page 7
New Corporations Formed
The January 15, 2001, issue of The Watchtower reported on the organized way in which Jehovah’s Witnesses are continuing to move forward with the Kingdom work in all the earth. It also explained how various legal entities are used as instruments to facilitate the spreading of the good news. Such entities or corporations are necessary to conform to local and national laws, as required by God’s Word. (Rom. 13:1) Because of the diversity and scope of our work, the Governing Body has approved the formation of additional corporations to care for certain needs of Jehovah’s Witnesses here in the United States. The new corporations are as follows:
Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Religious Order of Jehovah’s Witnesses (AKA Bethelites / vow of poverty )
Kingdom Support Services, Inc. (AKA http://used-tools-equipment.com )
These will operate along with Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. Congregations and publishers may receive correspondence from any of these corporations. Your cooperation with these adjustments made by the Governing Body in fulfilling its assignment to care for all the Master’s belongings will be greatly appreciated. - Matt. 24:45-47.
Side note: I believe the above American-based article did NOT appear in all the KMs in other countries - for example in the British edition it was replaced with news that the previously announced (at the June / July 2001 Conventions) possibility of the Britain Branch Bethel being relocated had been CANCELLED.
There is another letter heading that the WT uses - namely 'Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses'
Letter To All Congregations: April 22, 2014
Re: Adjustment in process for appointing elders and ministerial servants
Watch Tower Indexes
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200276161Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200276160International Bible Students Association (IBSA - Britain)
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200272944Associations (WT's National Legal Entities / Organizations)
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200270542
Pennsylvania: Department of State
Entity Number: 381206 - Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Entity Type: Non-Profit (Non Stock)
Status: Active
Citizenship: Domestic
Entity Creation Date: 12/15/1884
Address: 1630 Spring Run Road Extension, Coraopolis, PA 15108-0 Allegheny, USA
Entity Number: 2948736 - Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit (Non Stock)
Citizenship: Foreign
Entity Creation Date: 06/22/2000
Address: 1630 Spring Run Road Extension, Coraopolis, PA 15108-0 Allegheny, USA
Picture of 1630 Spring Run Road Extension, Coraopolis, PA 15108-0 Allegheny, USA
Also check out the following discussions here:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/8374/wts-corp-list-big
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/110211/how-many-different-jw-corps-interesting-find
Wild_Thing: Does anybody have any insight into the current status of this case?
As the dates on the dockets show, this case has been ongoing for a couple of years now.
It has also been discussed here a few times - Reveal News (first link below) also wrote an article about it, so may be they'll be doing a follow-up....
just wanted to say a big hello to everyone, my first post on here was actually yesterday but it was deleted.. so will keep this one short to save my precious time just in case its also deleted or lost.. got fed up with years of persecution from within the congregations.
the lack of genuine friendship & lack of 'christian love'.
having personally seen many a scandalous behaviour i began doing some research online some years ago.
London Underground: im not sure why my first post yesterday was deleted
TBH I wasn't. For those wondering...
Thread title: # 1st post-# OUTING A PEADO in LONDON, CLAPHAM UK.- [redacted] came to meet a 12y old Girl BUT got busted, confessed to being a JW?
Redacted summary: The OP was based on a video from a certain vigilante paedophile online hunter group - they pretend to be the under-age recipient of online/mobile phone messages and arrange to meet suspected paedophiles in real-life and then film the encounter and post it onto youtube etc etc.
Towards the end of one such 20-minute long video, the OP thought that the 21 year-old man who was being confronted, appeared to, quite genuinely, confess that they where a JW.
The OP was asking if this man was still a JW.
copied from a facebook post :.
"heard on a youtube channel that " a purge " is taking place disfellowshipping quite a lot of witnesses in both hull and plymouth area,s ?".
anything to add ?.
stan livedeath: anything to add ?
I just updated the thread below yesterday....
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
AverageJoe1: As to elder's letters (or letters to the congregation), here's my view, for what it's worth: they are not copyrighted. How can you copyright a letter?
It's an interesting question, and one that comes up mostly with letters written by famous people, rather than run-of-the-mill everyday correspondence, but it is the same principle.
FWIW, here's my view....
A letter consists of two distinct things:
1: the physical letter itself, ie. the paper it is written on; and
2: the actual words written on the paper.
The recipient of the letter owns the physical letter, and can sell it to someone else.
The actual words of the letter though remain with the writer who retains copyright in the normal way.
In principle it therefore works the same as if you had bought (or had been given) a book or novel.
You can sell the physical book to someone else, but the author still owns (copyright) the words.