i attended a recent ministerial servant k m school on the east coast and the main school instructor mentioned among other things (part entitled: 'objective of the km school course') that the total number of ministerial servants is seriously less than it should be.
in times past the ratio of m ss to elders was much more than it is today.. in the u.s. apparently the total number of elders is 88,500+ as opposed to m ss 65,000. the numbers show & numbers don't lie: the society is running out of spiritual men.
the instructor stated that this is a new downward trend that has (in so many words) the society worried.. the next speaker (part entitled: 'why we must be spiritual men') added that in his years as a traveling servant the pool of m ss has always been much, much larger than it is today.
The Internet has alot to do with it.
When forums like this started appearing about 10 years ago alot of the younger one's that would now be up & comming MS's started looking at them.
All of a sudden their eyes were opened and out they go.
In my old hall the retention rate of young ones would be about 40% at very best.
Of that 40% at least half would be going along becouse they know no better....only leaves a small amount pool of Bro's to pick from.
who were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
Finallysomepride:
I remember Gunter Matsura well ,last heard of (In the early 80's) he was liveing in Austria.
Nice guy i liked him alot.
Do you remember "Han's Hubler''?
Karter.
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beer will get you through times of no money more than money will get you through times of no beer!.
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what's ur fav beer?.
Monteith's New Zealand larger.
Voted best in the world.
Bump.
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black sheep & karter, hope you guys are ok, looks like it made a mess of christchurch... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/earthquake-pf-74-magnitude-rocks-christchurch/story-e6frf7l6-1225914075673.
I'm in the north island so not affected.
My freind from christchurch rang me at 7 this morning.
Lots of buildings collapsing,roads unusable power out in alot of places.
No deaths a few people baddly heart.
Can't you hear the J.W's rejoycing?
i got baptised about 25 years ago and was told the new system would be here by now.. along with a lot of other false promises.. so the answer for me would be no!!
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I got baptised about 25 years ago and was told the new system would be here by now.
Along with a lot of other false promises.
So the answer for me would be NO!!!
i used to enjoy do paul illingsworth's talks.
he thought he was a greek scholar.. anyone that you liked (or didn't)?.
Anyone from downunder will remember a co/do Han's Hubler.
Now this guy made an impression on anybody that had a crying baby in a assembly!!!!!!!!
He would stop and ask the attendants to remove them.
i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.
do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?
with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?
I remember Leo Greenlees telling us at the 1973 International Assembly that this would "probably be the last
International Assembly this side of armageddon". Then damage control set in. We didn't tout 1975 as the end of the world. The rest is history.
