Jim and Linda Cleary.....now there,s a story !
Jim was our CO in the mid-90s.
A self righteous idiot, who was a big Trekkie. He would insist that ST:TNG was recorded by his host family when it was on. Got very stressed when someone forgot.
He was loved and loathed fairly evenly. He told me whillst we were on the ministry how his body of elders had found out that a lad had watched Aliens (an 18 rated film he stressed) so they D'fd him for his lack of repentance.
He had a habit of moving the podium away so it didn't block him. So he'd be standing there just behind the microphone. Seemed to love everyone being able to see him fully.
Years later we heard some stories about him.
Firstly that he'd left his wife amd run with some other woman.
Then that this was totally untrue.
Then that it was true.
So we never got to the bottom of it.
Is this where he ended up?
The five-strong team are all Jehovah’s Witnesses, with Liz Henderson and
Micah Alford there daily, Natalie Webb works part-time and book-keeper
Jim Cleary comes in once a week. “We take our religion seriously, but
not ourselves,” said Jim, summing up the warm atmosphere around the
place in an instant.
History of Lamb’s Jeweller