i knew of a ministerial servant that was called out because he used fire crackers on the 4 th of july.
we had to have an emergency meeting as to his qualifications.
i remember imploring the body to not make a big issue over this and it was decided to just “counsel” him about being involved in a patriotic holiday.🤨.
Somebody up thread mentioned Labour Day. I'd always understood this to be an unofficial end of Summer holiday, when the holiday homes are closed up and the cycle of school life returns. What balanced person could object to this?
The connection with organised Labour has long gone, a bit like May Day in the UK.
i knew of a ministerial servant that was called out because he used fire crackers on the 4 th of july.
we had to have an emergency meeting as to his qualifications.
i remember imploring the body to not make a big issue over this and it was decided to just “counsel” him about being involved in a patriotic holiday.🤨.
Are there special Field Ministry arrangements for July 4th and Thanksgiving? Or have they been quietly ditched like the Christmas and New Year's Day arrangements?
And not forgetting Bank Holidays. You were never supposed to have a day off.
Re Thanksgiving: Looking from the outside as I live in the UK, what is the objection to this holiday? Is it considered religious? If you were PIMI, logic would dictate that Jehovah directed events to ensure that the nutjob Pilgrims would survive that first winter, thus setting in motion the chain of events that led to the Constitution and the guarantee of freedom of worship which fostered the setting up of the WTBTS.
I say go ahead and celebrate!
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .
Peter Knowles life story appeared in the Awake sometime in the 70s. One thing that always struck me as odd about it was his claim that nobody in his local congregation knew who he was when he started going to meetings.
Peter Knowles was one of the top footballers in England at the time of his retirement. He played for a big club, yet he claims that nobody in a congregation in the region of that club knew his identity. I find that hard to believe.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .
If you mean football as in soccer, you're probably referring to Peter Knowles, who gave it all up when he was at his peak in 1969.
Played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and was often compared to George Best.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .
Wasn't there an NBA star who became a JW back in the 80s? I can't recall his name, but his life story was in the Awake.
have you see the latest fashion for jesus in the wt?.
he's sporting a cape, just like superman!maybe caleb can get a t-shirt with a j logo instead of an s.. .
I think Jesus looks more like a celestial Rick Wakeman. He should be playing a grand piano backwards whilst resting one foot on the top. Or perhaps stabbing his light sabre into the gaps between the piano keys.
in july of 1969, i was 16 years old and was pretty excited by the prospect that the us would shortly land a man on the moon.
however, i remember, vividly and older brother at the time confidently stating that man would never walk on the moon, quoting psalms 115 - "as for the heavens, they belong to jehovah.
but the earth he has given to the sons of man.
Quite a few young American, Australian and NZ men were facing their own Armageddon in Vietnam whilst Man was landing on the moon.
Seems ironic, looking back at it now.
my pimi wife listens to a lot of the meetings on the phone with the speaker on.
when i am watching tv i hear the meetings in the background.
i just cringe with how a witless can't give a comment without having said jehovah at least two times.
Reminds me of a sister who would work Jehovah into every little bit of any conversation she was having.
One evening at her house for a dinner party, after a few hours of Jehovah this and Jehovah that, she was serving dessert and offered us a slice of pavlova. My mate quickly whispered to me,
"Pavlova. That rhymes with Jehovah!"
Still makes me smile nearly 30 years later!
but i believe in jehovah god, and i read the bible every day.. i believe the bible is god's word.
and i pray to god every day.. it's somewhat off topic.
but i'd like to find a friend who loves the bible and want to read and find the truth of the bible together with me.. i live in japan and i am a japanese.
Any minute now Phineas will arrive at the tent with his spear...
