Fred and April stayed with my parents when my mother was pregnant with me. She told my mother that if she could have a daughter she would name her Bethany. So that is how my name came to be...
So happy to have you here Hepcat (BTW-Hepcat is my oldest brother)
"I must be one very intelligent human to be worshipped by 7 million people simply by telling them I am their channel to everlasting life."
just wondering if anyone has uploaded this talk anywhere?
i am assuming it is saturday inculcate god's word in little hearts?
i am really curious what the gb is telling folks to think about this thing.
Thank you so much for the links. I should have enough listening material to cure my insomnia for a few weeks.
wheeeee!!!!!!
another ypa article trying mould young children into nice little myrmidons, and once again, the only way i can stand to read it is by inserting as much low-brow commentary as i can.
read hebrews chapter 11 and pick one of the men or women named there.
What kids talk like this?!?!...
Terrence - My friends Kyle and David never minimize the feelings of others. They are always available to help people with their problems, while they put their own anxieties on the back burner
Emmaline - My role model is my mom. She knows her Bible like the back of her hand, and she always looks for opportunities to talk to people about her faith.
These Awake writers are so out of touch!
I really liked the bird crap one too since that was the scripture that was on the front of my wedding invitation in 1986.
as an elder, i recall that the husband always had to be present on any judicial committee meeting involving his wife, but that the wife was not to be present on judicial committee meetings involving her husband.
has this changed?
if not, isn't that treating women as lesser persons than their husbands?.
The way my elder husband treated me for 20 years was very similar to how Afghan men treat their wives. I just wanted basic human rights like being able to have my witness parents visit or be able to visit them. I was his property and he was not going to share me with anyone.
It makes me ill that when I reached out for help (twice in 20 years) to an elder about my husbands headship being unbearable, I was squashed like a bug. It was the good ol boys club and I was a woman.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-z-bobzien-tommy&pid=157453859.
note: this just happened and some rumours are surfacing from bethel family there and are told "not to talk" about this.
1. young man called parents to say good bye night before being found dead.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 1 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 325 Lowen Hill Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15216
The Memorial Service was held at the KH
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please read on and you'll see why i thought you might like to meet my husband, joe's sister, nancy.
back in the 1950s, much to her family's dismay, nancy was not interested in spending her life as a jw and left the group when she was 16. she married a fledgling banker at an early age (probably to escape the jws and her family), moved from dallas, texas, to apple valley, calif., and had three children.
to survive and thrive in midlife and beyond, get rid of distractions like obsolete possessions, over drinking, overeating, socializing too much, working too much, and spending time with people who drain your energy. With distractions out of the way (and this will take a while), rewrite your life story so that the outcome matches who you are and what you value at this stage of life.
Such sound advice.
in the congregations in my area there was an expression to the effect that 'there's counting time and then there's the way pioneers count their time'.
the watchtower's guidelines were pretty strict on when time could be counted.
some pioneers followed it and others didn't.. on particularly motivated young man comes to mind, he would work full-time or close to it and pioneer.
When I pioneered as a single sister I started my time at the first door and stopped my time at the last door. When I married another pioneer, he convinced me that we could start our time when we pulled out of the parking lot and stopped our time when we got home (even if we took multiple breaks, garage sales, shoe repair store, mall etc.)
