my active jw wife has gone to all meetings, assemblies, memorials, and service groups by herself after i faded off the radar about 5 years ago.
i asked her this past saturday as she prepared to join another sister from the kh for the service group regarding, voluntary donations.
i inquired if publishers still mention this to the householder when placing literature.
Splash There were Service Meeting items some time ago saying that we should no longer mention the donation arrangement at all.
I've double checked my statement and it's not correct.
What I recalled were instructions specific to telephone witnessing not mentioning the donation arrangement, since this would be seen as telephone soliciting.
There were some KM's on this.
So the donation arrangment still exists. Sorry to mislead you!!
Splash
i apologize if this has already been covered, maybe someone can post the link.. what is the real reason for the society forgiving all loans for kingdom halls and just giving the money for new ones?.
Vanderhoven, this is the instruction in the BoE letter which describes this new arrangement.
Essentially, the loans are all forgiven but the WT asks the elders to make a monthly donation instead. The recommended amount for this donation is at least the same as the loan repayment value was.
Splash
my active jw wife has gone to all meetings, assemblies, memorials, and service groups by herself after i faded off the radar about 5 years ago.
i asked her this past saturday as she prepared to join another sister from the kh for the service group regarding, voluntary donations.
i inquired if publishers still mention this to the householder when placing literature.
There were Service Meeting items some time ago saying that we should no longer mention the donation arrangement at all.
Splash
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).
decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.
example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
In 30 years I've not known it.
Certainly some individuals have organised help, and I've given a little help myself from time to time, but as a BoE organised and congregation funded effort? That'll be a 'No'.
Splash
just found out that my little sister is getting df'd next week.
her husband left her about a year ago got df'd and recently got a girl pregnant.
my sister has had a hard time with the whole situation as you can imagine.
(Matthew 9:13)
. . .Go, then, and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice.. . .
Splash
excerpt from the wt article, http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2003401.
jehovahs witnesses today are also quick to help when disaster strikes.
during the summer of 2001, for instance, torrential storms caused major flooding in houston, texas, u.s.a. in all, 723 homes of witnesses were damaged to some extent, many of them quite badly.
And another thought.
At least we can find out how much a charity CEO is earning and decide for ourselves if they are worth it.
Who can tell me the cost of the GB?
Splash.
excerpt from the wt article, http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2003401.
jehovahs witnesses today are also quick to help when disaster strikes.
during the summer of 2001, for instance, torrential storms caused major flooding in houston, texas, u.s.a. in all, 723 homes of witnesses were damaged to some extent, many of them quite badly.
Some charities have high administrative or fund-raising costs, leaving only a small portion of the collected money for the intended purpose.
It's also good to remember that advertising works.
If these charities didn't advertise then who would know to donate to them?
By spending money on advertising, even more money is raised for the charity.
So even if "only a small portion" is used for the charity, it's still more than if they had not fund-raised.
eg 30% of a million dollars is $300,000. 100% of nothing is nothing.
What do you think all of the WT meeting items discussing money are for?
Why mention 'the deficit' at every assembly?
These are nothing more than fund raising talks.
The WT needs to recognise that not every charity has the luxury of a captive audience to pressure for donations.
Splash.
So essentially this congregation used donated funds to buy a property in 2008 for $265k, then six years later sell it again for $110k.
When it was sold by the trustees (BoE) for $110k they sold it to a holding company owned by one of those same trustees.
I'm pretty certain the charity regulators there would have something to say about this.
Splash.
the ibsa spent 6m buying two plots of land near wt house and spent another 10m on building and fitting out the flats.
since there are only 15 flats there, that works out at over 1m/flat - and these are 2 bedroom flats only.
similar flats nearby are marketed to the very top of the market.
dozy Selling the New Zealand Bethel to another religion (AKA part of Satan's Babylon the Great ) must be especially galling.
And this, after dedicating it's usage exclusively to Jehovah.
I didn't realize dedication was such a trivial and fickle thing.
Splash
please don't attack me if this is the wrong place!
i know that i definitely shouldn't be on this website, but i am to embarassed to ask anyone at my hall!
everyone would be so nice, but i just feel like i should know the answers already.
Hi moSIS, nice to see you here.
If the CO has a theme going for the week, he may tie his Thursday talk into what he gave you on Tuesday.
I find the CO talks more interesting than the regular Sunday talks - he's normally a much better speaker.
Splash
