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  Jalessa Castillo, a Jehovah Witness Pioneer, who joined The Orlando Times Team, maintains a 3.75 Grade Point Average at Valencia College.

  by no password in

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  http://www.orlando-times.com/the_journey_of_jalessa_526.html.

  the orlando times.

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  Interesting ecumenical business angle.
  
  The Only Paper With A Church Partnership
  
  Honoring The Orlando Times Newspaper’s Church Directory
  
  BY DEVIN HEFLIN
  
  ORLANDO - The editorial staff at The Orlando Times newspaper would like to take this time to thank all ministries which have participated and continue to participate in The Orlando Times’ Church Directory. Though The Orlando Times newspaper is not a religious themed newspaper, it continues this unique partnership with churches throughout Central Florida, showcasing sermons, presenting Pastors and ministry news. Ever thumbed through The Orlando Times newspaper and found your Pastor or a Pastor on the Spiritual Living page? If you’ve taken time to read the messages that these men and women of God contribute on a weekly basis to The Orlando Times newspaper, the editorial team at The Orlando Times prays you have been strengthened spiritually for the better through this program.
  
  
  Want to Become a Chruch Partner?
  

  Are you interested in having your church promoted in our newspaper or on out social media? How about having one of your sermons promoted? If so you are in the right place. Contact us to find out more about our 'Church Partnership Program'
  
  
  A Unique Partnership
  
  The Church Partnership of The Orlando Times Newspaper
  
  BY JALESSA CASTILLO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
  
  
  Oops. They removed her article but not the byline.
  
  
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  Can someone explain to me how the JW cult still has a 501.3c tax-free "charity" status when they have child abuse scandals & c

  by kpop in

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  i saw this posted on another forum and it raises a very good question.

  maybe we can get a go fundme page to pay for the lawyer fees?

  get a good shark lawyer on this?

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  Education. The WTBTS masquerades as an Education nonprofit.
  
  As long as they print some skimpy brochures, or throw up a few articles online from time to time, they qualify.
  
  Doesn’t matter that cart-sitters are virtually invisible, they offer Bible-based (tm) education free to the public.
  
  Watchtower could cancel door-to-door work, eliminate the worldwide Bethel population, and operate with an 8-person skeleton crew.
  
  They’d still qualify.
  
  Historically, they’ve enjoyed agricultural exemptions, too. Watchtower was very clever to install a BIBLE MUSEUM at Warwick HQ. No matter how tarnished their reputation, no matter how many Witnesses leave, they could still solicit public donations on that basis alone. While sitting on billion$ in recent real estate transactions, and compounded interest plus principal going back over a hundred years.
  
  Works for them, works for Orange County, NY tourism and economic development. Very happy to have new neighbors fix up a decrepit site within the park and bring in busloads of neatly dressed, well-mannered consumer$.
  
  Tourism is their new gig. Education always has been, and will remain, their phony, fraudulent front.
  
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  They Offered Their Son Willingly—To Bethelite Brothers

  by betterdaze in

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  2. child-abuse

  they offered themselves willingly—in new yorkricky, a construction project manager in hawaii, was invited to serve as a commuter bethelite to assist with the warwick project.

  his wife, kendra, wanted him to accept the invitation.

  however, they had a legitimate concern: the welfare of their 11-year-old son, jacob.

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  Will someone who has an established rapport with the ARC or the UK Charity Commission forward this to the proper contacts? That Watchtower encourages isolated children to hang out with single male Bethelites, even AFTER THE FACTS of the disgusting Jesus Cano case?
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  
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  They Offered Their Son Willingly—To Bethelite Brothers

  by betterdaze in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  they offered themselves willingly—in new yorkricky, a construction project manager in hawaii, was invited to serve as a commuter bethelite to assist with the warwick project.

  his wife, kendra, wanted him to accept the invitation.

  however, they had a legitimate concern: the welfare of their 11-year-old son, jacob.

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  They Offered Themselves Willingly—In New York
  
  Ricky, a construction project manager in Hawaii, was invited to serve as a commuter Bethelite to assist with the Warwick project. His wife, Kendra, wanted him to accept the invitation. However, they had a legitimate concern: the welfare of their 11-year-old son, Jacob. They wondered if it would be wise to relocate the family to New York State and if their son would be able to adjust to a totally different environment.
  
  “One of our priorities was that of finding a congregation with young ones who were doing well spiritually,” says Ricky. “We wanted Jacob to have plenty of good association.” As it turned out, the congregation where they ended up has very few children but several Bethelites. “After our first meeting there, I asked Jacob how he felt about the new congregation, especially since there weren’t any young ones his age,” says Ricky. “He told me, ‘Don’t worry, Dad. My friends will be the young Bethel brothers.’”
  
  

  
  

  Jacob and his parents enjoy association with Bethelites in their congregation
  
  Sure enough, the young Bethelites have befriended Jacob. With what effect? “One night, I was passing my son’s room and saw that the lights were still on,” Ricky relates. “I expected to catch him playing an electronic game, but he was reading the Bible! When I asked him what he was doing, Jacob said, ‘I’m being a young Bethelite, and I’m going to read the Bible in one year.’” Needless to say, Ricky and Kendra are thrilled, not only because Ricky can share in the construction work at Warwick but also because their move is contributing to their son’s spiritual growth.—Prov. 22:6.
  

  (The Watchtower Study Edition, January 2015)

  
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  So, Jacob is an only child, no siblings. Being raised in a high-control, closed environment. He’s not allowed “bad association” with non-JW children in the first place. Now he’s being uprooted and sent to a congregation with “very few children”, which is even more isolating. His own dipshit parents encourage him to hang out with horny virgin men from the local cult compound who have to be constantly reminded (even at the breakfast table) not to play with themselves or each other.
  
  What could possibly go wrong?
  
  
  

  
  Man guilty of trying to lure boys for sex
  
  A 50-year-old Jehovah's Witness has been found guilty of trying to lure underage boys in Middletown to have anal sex with him and pose for nude photographs.
  
  
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  Who pays for bethelites Healthcare is it Obama care

  by poopie in

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  what happens when bethelite gets sick.

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  betterdaze

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJ6DDDQ6EM
  
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  "Just around the corner." The dumbest song that I have ever heard..

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.

  i hear a haunting sound from another room.

  "is that a children's song?

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  No tractors after Armageddon. Horse-drawn carts.
  
  
  
  
  
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  2017 JWN Christmas Card Exchange

  by blondie in

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  in years gone by i have organized and coordinated this.

  pm me if you want to be added to the list giving me your snail mail address and/or your e-mail for those with tech skills and a safe e-mail.. do this by december 14, and i will pm the list to each person on it.

  latecomers will be added but you may not get it by christmas.

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  betterdaze

  Does anyone have some goods suggestions for free online Christmas cards.
  

  Victorian Trading Co. has sweet, old-timey e-greetings free of charge.
  
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  Who pays for bethelites Healthcare is it Obama care

  by poopie in

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  what happens when bethelite gets sick.

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  betterdaze

  There is a Watchtower-owned private home in Putnam County, NY inhabited by a licensed chiropractor and his wife.
  
  Their relative, most likely a daughter, is a lawyer for … Watchtower Patterson. So either Watchtower bought the house for it’s private chiropractor, or a lowlife woman who protects child abusers. Either way, neither of these upstanding Witnesses were told “wait on Jehovah” in the career department. Which makes me question if these off-site professionals are even Witnesses to begin with.
  
  I’d be really pissed if these were my neighbors. A doctor and a lawyer living property tax free while the townsfolk pay a premium to make up the shortfall.
  
  (If the rank-and-file ever knew how many “Bethelite” professionals live off site in Watchtower-owned freestanding homes, they’d lose their minds.)
  
  Sorry to go off topic. I also noticed a “therapy pool” on the Warwick blueprints. Just like the fake “baptism pool” in Brooklyn that never saw a drop of water.
  
  This is most likely an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) sham to grab federal government grant money.
  
  
  
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  Memorial 2017

  by wifibandit in

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  instead of making a new thread for every little thing related to memorial 2017, i'm going to try to post here.

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  and to start us off.... cart artwork for 2017 memorial invitations.

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  betterdaze

  Oops. Last line got cut off:
  
  This, from the people who told us we’d never finish school. “Remain single. Don’t have children. Preach instead.”
  
  
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  Racism raise it's ugly head.. Chili's remove manager

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chili's remove cedar hill manager who took away man's free veterans day meal.

  because he was black.

  elderly white gentleman told the black veteran, "black did not serve in germany' and he told the manager the guy(black veteran) is not a veteran.

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  betterdaze

  It would appear that he earns his living suing businesses and encouraging others to do likewise.
  
  So, is it possible that he’s known locally for setting up hoaxes to sue businesses, and wears costumes? Maybe that's why the young manager wouldn't address his claims?
  
  Because there’s plenty of photos of him wearing a priest’s collar. Like baiting people to attack a “man of the faith.”
  
  I’m not doubting his service record. That's easily confirmed. But the "injured vet" persona would certainly play into this.
  
  BTW, the ACDC Today TX address listed is 1941 S. Duncanville Rd. Ovilla, Texas 75154.
  
  It’s Earnest’s residence.