I forgot to mention, Rod Jung said all conventions this year will have "lots" of actual videos shown, and that all conventions will have large TV displays set up for these videos to be seen by all in attendance. This has never happened before, I have never seen any TV displays at any normal convention I have ever attended, nor has there ever been videos shown during the program.
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Canadians have no problems with bright colored socks according to Branch Rep (Zone) visit
by Quarterback inwe just had the visit of the br, winston payne from down under australia.
he was a good old mate, and he commended the brits accent over the australian.
no mention of the metero sexual suits, bright colored socks, spandex, no association with df relatives.
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Canadians have no problems with bright colored socks according to Branch Rep (Zone) visit
by Quarterback inwe just had the visit of the br, winston payne from down under australia.
he was a good old mate, and he commended the brits accent over the australian.
no mention of the metero sexual suits, bright colored socks, spandex, no association with df relatives.
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@Quarterback: I agree with you on it being one of the better zone talks. The other ones were always rants, this old guy was pretty funny with his rambling stories and yes the talk was actually more upbuilding than most.
John MacEwan of the branch committee was the chairman. Warren Shewfelt (I think also of the branch commitee) did the Watchtower summary, Rod Jung gave an update on Canada's work (12,000+ reg pioneers, 50,000+ bible studies, 180,000+ attended last year's memorial, they are focusing a lot on translating to First Nations languages). Rod Jung is now on the branch committee and seems like he is the branch coordinator now, since Ken Little is 80 and had to step down.
Winston Payne was the speaker from Australia Bethel. His theme was "Find Happiness in the Peace of God" and was basically just "remember Jehovah knows your limitations so don't feel bad about shortcomings". He had funny, long, dry rambling stories and kept saying there's a point to the story. Payne looked pretty old, I thought late 70's, but he was still kind of on the ball because he had to admit a number of times there was a point to his long stories so he realized he was rambling, but his points were short compared to how long he had to what he talked about (he'd talk for like a solid 10 minutes and his point would be a sentence or two long).
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WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013
by Richard_I injust saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.
on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.
you can even see how much some congregations gave.
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WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013
by Richard_I injust saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.
on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.
you can even see how much some congregations gave.
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@label licker: Ken Little is supposed to step down as Branch Coordinator when he turns 80, which I think occurs this year. Supposedly it's a new rule, once you reach 80 you have to step down, but I seriously doubt he will leave bethel, he's been there since the 1950s, he's got a nice "double" room that only the top seniority get. I wouldn't be surprised if Rod Jung is moved up, he's a good public speaker and seemed pretty chill based on the few times I talked to him and his parts at assemblies I attended, and I think he's in his 50's now. I forget what department he works in though. The rest of the guys on the branch committee are in their mid 60's to mid 70's too.
I thought Clayton Hanson was the treasurer, so I was surprised to not see him listed at all.
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Has anybody got a copy of the older New World Translation ? (pre : the new simplified version ?)
by ukgirl inhey so i'm currently doing a uni project and making a film exploring my leaving of the witnesses.
i wanted to begin with an intro where i revisit the genesis account of god creating the heavens and the earth.
i remember it to be quite visually descriptive, so i wanted to take the account and illustrate it myself with narration over the top.
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Here's a version of the site in January 2013.
That should be the old Bible. I used archive.org to go back.
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WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013
by Richard_I injust saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.
on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.
you can even see how much some congregations gave.
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@sir82: yes I was thinking the same, it does seem very low. But further down is a table that says they received $20,202,434 in tax-receipted donations and $14,526,065 in non-tax-receipted donations, which I guess would include conventions and assemblies. -
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WTBS Canada received almost $9 million from cong. donations in 2013
by Richard_I injust saw this on the ex-jw subreddit.
on opencharity.ca, you can view wtbs canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations.
you can even see how much some congregations gave.
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Just saw this on the ex-JW subreddit. On OpenCharity.ca, you can view WTBS Canada's financial info and in 2013 they received almost $9 million in donations. You can even see how much some congregations gave. The directors/trustees listed are all members of the Canada branch committee.
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has anyone seen vidio on youtube about why they changed cover of songbook search youtube jw.org embarrassment
by poopie inany thoughts.
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For people who don't get it, the OP is talking about the picture below. Some people think they changed the black guy because his hand (clearly his hand) looks like a penis. All I see is his hand holding his book. I believe that the guy was disfellowshipped and since this is a book used every single meeting they felt the need to change him to another person (the black guy is now an asian guy).
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2014 Fully Accomplish Your Ministry-PDF!
by Atlantis in2014 fully accomplish your ministry-pdf!..
this file was not easy to get!
the informant had to carefully wait until each time his regular pioneer wife left the house to get into her service bag.
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A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?
by Village Idiot inwhen i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.
soon i came to the realization that there were many more.
we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.
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I'd say maybe 1000 of all active JWs worldwide are active publishers but mentally out. I put my 2 hours in a month, nobody really talks to me at the meetings, i never comment, i get to the meetings 5 minutes late or just as the opening song is to be played, and leave within 5 minutes after the meeting. Some elders bother me about my activity but I just tell them I'll work on it and school's keeping me busy. I enjoy my "violent" video games and the occasional R-rated movie. I hope to be completely faded/disassociated within 2 years.
Even guys I knew who came to one or two meetings a month still seemed super in it, which i always found strange. I don't think I'll ever meet somebody else mentally out but still an active JW, it's too risky to admit it to others and then get ratted out.