from someone who attended:.
there was a big elders meeting in columbia sc on saturday june 9.. around 240 congregations, 2000+ elders.. the society wants to build a brand new assembly hall in columbia, sc, to handle the huge influx of jws moving to the us southeast from up north.. they expect to have it done in 34 months (finished by april 2010).
total cost estimated to be approximately $8 - 9 million.. they want to have the whole thing paid for by the time the building is done - no long term loans.. they "strongly suggested" that each of the 240 congregations commit to supporting "their share" of the expense.
Primate Dave Wrote...
I was always amazed at how much it cost to use the Salisbury hall for circuit assemblies and special days.
Thats because a donation of $5,000 was set aside for WTBS headquarters up front. Our assemblies generally ran about $7,000 but $5,000 was set aside. I wonder how much they rake in at the District Conventions.
I think I will start a new post asking this question.
i have a couple of favourites i'll share with you.. first is pure coconut oil for my hands.
at room temperature it is a solid, so i have to immerse the pump container in a mug of hot water for about 5 minutes before i use it.
it's wonderfully warm when i massage it into my hands, and leaves them silky soft!
Press and Seal instead of the old Saran wrap
and armageddon is not here yet.
in fact, i passed several churches of the catholic and protestent denominations.
and i thought that those churches were supposed to be destroyed before the great tribulation which was supposed to culminate in armageddon.
Who came up with this June 12th thing anyway? All JWs and ex-JWs know that the Bible clearly stated nobody knows the day or the hour. So what gives here?
recently i read a thread about a speaker at a special assembly announcing that this scripture had possibly been fulfilled.
cant remember his name.
now since this speaker was making this announcement on his own accord, what form of discipline was metted out to him?
Maybe I am kicking around a dead horse but did this guy ever get a reprimand?
Nursing my baby. Not in a wierd way but in a motherly way. He would make these singing noises while he was nursing and look up at me and smile. It was the most beautiful experience. Also just kissing his little face.
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during my tenure as a jehovahs witness, i brought it to the elders attention to refer to .
me by using my first or last name when addressing me.
I remember back before I was baptized I had raised my hand for the Watchtower question and the speaker referred to me as sister.
Once the program was over, Sister Nosey ran up to the speaker and I overheard her telling him that I was unbaptized and not a sister. It kinda hurt my feelings at the time.
After my baptism she came up to me and said. 'its official, your a sister now' and everyone was calling me sister in a very overly intentional way. I was wierd.
recently i read a thread about a speaker at a special assembly announcing that this scripture had possibly been fulfilled.
cant remember his name.
now since this speaker was making this announcement on his own accord, what form of discipline was metted out to him?
I understand how the WTBS is always claiming thier action as fullfilling bible prophecy. I guess a lot of religions claim to have. It was the phrase 'been fulfilled' that bothers me. Its one thing to say 'being fulfilled' and another to have 'been fulfilled'.
It also bothers me that this brother announced it on his own accord without approval from the GB but rather based on his own observations or feelings. Unless the GB of course had a hand in this as a way to reign in loose sheep and then claiming later that anyone stumbled by this probably never loved God anyway.
Isnt leaving the brother unchecked and unpunished they same as compliancy?
recently i read a thread about a speaker at a special assembly announcing that this scripture had possibly been fulfilled.
cant remember his name.
now since this speaker was making this announcement on his own accord, what form of discipline was metted out to him?
OK...I found the thread with the audio download link. The speaker's name was James Rayford.
recently i read a thread about a speaker at a special assembly announcing that this scripture had possibly been fulfilled.
cant remember his name.
now since this speaker was making this announcement on his own accord, what form of discipline was metted out to him?
I do but I do not know how to attach it...
recently i read a thread about a speaker at a special assembly announcing that this scripture had possibly been fulfilled.
cant remember his name.
now since this speaker was making this announcement on his own accord, what form of discipline was metted out to him?
Actually it was in reference to another post where the speaker said something like..." I am going to put these notes down for a minute and say something and would like for you to listen very carefully..."
Then goes on to say that because he has the privie to work in Bethel and by the side of the GB and FS that the feeling is that Matthew 24:14 has been fulfilled.
The talk was 'Be Intensly Occupied With God' There was a creepy audio.
I was just wondering if this guy was ever disciplined.
