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  WTS Has Lost +35% of Elders in US Since 1994????

  by Seeker4 in

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  zack, on another thread, said he heard this figure from the platform at both the 2006 elders' school and his recent pioneer school:.

  that there were 93,000 elders in 1994, and less than 60,000 today, in the united states.. i thought these figures deserved their own thread, as they are shocking to me, and to see if anyone else has heard anything similar.. i'll post a link to the other thread as well.

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  Gawd..I wish they would have appointed sisters lol I knew a few femaile witnesses that would have made better elders than anyone on the body!
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  My JW elderly aunt just called me..........

  by Mulan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  she lives thousands of miles away from me, and called me now to tell me how much she loves me and misses me, and she started crying, and could hardly get out the words, about the wt study for tomorrow.

  she begged me to go to the meeting and hear the information, so i compromised with her and told her i would get a copy of the magazine and read it.. i felt so badly for her.

  we were always very close, and her daughter, my late cousin sharon, who died in 2001, was my closest friend in my life.

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  That's the hardest thing for me. I still love a lot of sincere witnesses. And I know that some of them love me too.

  For what its worth, I think you are doing the right thing. Most of our issues are with an organization, not a sincere, beloved family member. Your act of kindness and compromise shows a truly Christian attitude.
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  WTS Has Lost +35% of Elders in US Since 1994????

  by Seeker4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  zack, on another thread, said he heard this figure from the platform at both the 2006 elders' school and his recent pioneer school:.

  that there were 93,000 elders in 1994, and less than 60,000 today, in the united states.. i thought these figures deserved their own thread, as they are shocking to me, and to see if anyone else has heard anything similar.. i'll post a link to the other thread as well.

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  None of the elders in my home cong are still there. Some have stepped down, some moved away, some were reproved. The did however ship in 2 elders from a neighboring a cong and appoint two ministerial servants as elder (one had been baptized 3 years, the other had been inactive for about 20 years and had only been reassociated for about 3 years), the two congregations in central OK where most of my witness family lives lost ALL of their elders due to disfellowshipping, removal, resignation, death and relocation. Other elders have been sent in to these congregations, but I believe they both only have 2 elders apiece, down from 6 apiece a few years ago.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses & "worldly" association (sad story)

  by lovelylil in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today a jw friend of mine related this story to me.

  she was at the park with a sister whose husband is an elder.

  the elder's wife had their four year old son, an only child with her.

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  We weren't even allowed to play with half the witness kids in the congregation because they were "worldly witnesses" who didn't go in service enough, or wore "wild" clothes, or weren't publishers by the time they were 10 or because they listened to rock music or they were too competitve. It made for a lousy and lonely childhood. However, my parents started coming around a bit when I was in my teens. In fact, one of our local elders who had a son my age told my mom she was being too hard on me..at that point I quit getting whoopings, started getting an allowance and was even allowed to meet non witness classmates at football games as long as I came home as soon as the game was over..and, btw, I was a regular pioneer at the time
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  Prince and Lindsay Lohan Partying?

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  just finished reading an article in the morning newspaper about lindsay lohan cheking herself into the wonderland centre for drug and alchohol rehab.. it is sad to see such a beautiful young person getting to need such services with so much of her life ahead.. but the part of the report that made me sit up and think was this, i quote........ "ms lohan was in hospital on january 3 for appendicitis but was seen out partying a couple of hours after she was discharged.. since, she has been seen out almost every night and on monday she attended prince's post golden-globes bash at the beverley wilshire hotel.

  a fellow party goer said she obviously was the worse for wear.".

  well i'm spewing over this and here are my questions then....... if prince is a jw what the hell is he doing organising a large function without the elders approval?.

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  He is following Pauls example of becoming all things to all people :) How else would Lindsay get to hear the truth??
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  How many of us were janitors?

  by Fleshybirdfodder in

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  lovelylils post made me think.... dubs pretty much rule that particular sector.

  my mother was more proud of me working for the p.o.

  cleaning toilets than if i had gone on to be a doctor.

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  subcontracted for a barely active ministerial servant
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  My old KH had a personal visit from me today!

  by moshe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was on business in the area of my old congregation ( i live out of state)- the one i first got baptized in back in 1973. they were just getting started on their discussion before service- it was 9:03 am and i just impulsively turned into the parking lot and decided to pay them a surprise visit.

  i just walked into the kh and looked at them for 30 seconds.

  i didn't recognize anyone and finally they asked me what i wanted.

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  great..there are some really nice people in the org who just have no idea about how things are... I was one of them :)

  The sad thing is, that in my heydey, I would have asked you to leave and escorted you out. Glad you found a more receptive repsponse!
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  The strangest looking (and acting) nut jobs you have ever seen at the KH!

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are so many after after 52 years in the "borg".. my top two would have to be at my last hall tigard oregon.. one lady slept in her pickup truck with 30 parakeets, sometimes in the kh parking lot.

  people tried to help her with accommodations but she like the truck.

  she really dressed up for the meetings......feather boa's, big hats, looked like may west from the 30's.

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  A guy named Bill. He was shizpphrenic and when he was on meds he was tolerable, when not he was impossible. It was difficult because you knew he had real problems, but sometimes he came up with the weirdest things. And he could actually be quite creepy ( he was never allowed to be alone with children as he confessed to our car group once that he sometimes had improper urges) Our Bookstudy conductor would call on him even when he was "off". So we heard some off the wall comments. He commented frequently on his struggle to battle masturbation, his attraction to elders wifes, etc.

  my absolute favorite comment from him was "my dad said a hard penis has no conscience, so I told him my soft one does"
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  GUESS WHOM I MISSED LAST THURSDAY!

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you have guessed it,everyone!.

  they comed round about 1pm when my neighbour was in.. she told them she was anglican/coe and told them to p*** ***!.

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  I have not had a visit in soo long...I did not even get the latest Kingdom News left in my door ...somebody's gonna be bloodguilty if I die at Armageddon :(
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  Nemesis twins get "dissed" by Church

  by Bumble Bee in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  interesting interview on twin brothers disfellowshipping.. http://logo.blogs.com/new_now_next/2006/12/jacob_joshua_re.html.

  http://logo.blogs.com/new_now_next/2006/12/nemesis_twins_g.html.

  here's a bit of lame news late on this wintry thursday.... this pop-rocking twins of nemesis, jacob & joshua, who just wrapped up their reality series, jacob & joshua: nemesis rising on logo, have been officially "disfellowshipped" by their family's jehovah's witness organization.

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  I like Jacob and Joshua's statement. Very well put.