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  Inviting People to Meetings

  by HereIam60 in

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  2. experiences

  the current memorial invitation campaign got me thinking about the few times over the years that someone i invited to a meeting actually came: .

  1) once when i was "new", i invited a friend to a sunday meeting.

  neither of us drove, so the brother conducting my study picked us up.

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  Strange, Interesting Day

  by HereIam60 in

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  2. experiences

  i have worked for over 25 years now in a day habilitation program for persons with physical and mental diabilities.

  in recent years this has often involved assisting them in doing community volunteer work, as in our state, persons receiving services are required to have a 'job' of some sort.

  as a result, we have worked in catholic and salvation army food pantries, animal shelters, libraries, a nature center, a vietnam war veterans museum and delivered meals on wheels.

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  1 Thessalonians 5:3....Prophecy ?

  by HereIam60 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've always had difficulty understanding how watch tower interprets 1 thessalonians 5:3 as prophetic of a future event - that the nations will unite in a (false) cry that they have achieved 'peace and security' which will signal the start of the great tribulation.

  whenever i've read that passage i got the sense that it is simply stating a general principle... that when people are complacent and off-guard, thinking everything is o.k., peaceful and secure then sudden unexpected events hit them harder and they don't know what to do.

  when i was first coming in (1980s) i well recall the "true peace and security" book that made a big deal about the un having declared 1986 'the international year of peace'.

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