New Kindumb Halls in
a neighborhood near you
Notes and highlights from today’s meeting
·
Opening statement about this meeting being a
historic event, over 100k elders under the US branch together live from NYC.
·
Robert Luccioni asked, Why the need for change? He
read Isaiah 60: 17-22 with emphasis in verse 22 “The little one himself will become a
thousand, and the small one a mighty nation. I myself, Jehovah, shall speed it
up in its own time.”
·
Things
are happening so fast that is hard to keep up with all the changes.
·
Showed
a video with a map of USA and reviewed stats of issues with “overcrowding”
·
Showed
a graph on how the RBC and LWLR were successful programs but it was
time for a change
·
Jehovah
has provided a “master plan” and to achieve his goal we must be
(PATIENT=GENEROUS)
·
Mention
of need for donations
·
We
need to reduce cost to 20%
·
We cannot be like the Israelites that complained about leaving Egypt, WE MUST
ACCEPT THE CHANGES. During the 1st century the Organization accepted
change, the result was what we find in (Acts 16:5) Therefore, indeed,
the congregations continued to be made firm in the faith and to increase in
number from day to day.
·
The GB does not want elders to dwell on the
past, read (Ecclesiastes
7:10)
Do not say: “Why has it happened that the former days proved to be better than
these?” for it is not due to wisdom that you have asked about this.
·
Elders were told not to point out the flaws
about this new arrangement. (Ecclesiastes
7:21, 22)
Also, do not give your heart to all the words that people may speak, that you
may not hear your servant calling down evil upon you. 22 For
your own heart well knows even many times that you, even you, have called down
evil upon others.
(2 Corinthians 13:11) Finally, brothers,
continue to rejoice, to be readjusted, to be comforted, to think in agreement,
to live peaceably; and the God of love and of peace will be with YOU.
·
After reading
2nd Corinthians, the brother stated “We have to be ready to
obey fellow workers”
·
Leon Weaver started his talk with Isaiah 2:3 and
said that our growth was prophesied in this verse. (Isaiah 2:3) And many peoples
will certainly go and say: “Come, YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain
of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his
ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion law will go forth, and
the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem.
·
Jehovah
will give us prosperity
·
There
is a need to standardized all KH’s
·
The
US branch committee had heated discussions that lasted overnight going back and
forth about building in a traditional residential model or go with a
commercial model
·
They
prayed without being in agreement and at the end all voted in favor for a
commercial model (Yes, the new KH’s will have WINDOWS)
·
They
spoke about budgeting, legal department, accounting, etc…
·
Introduced
new positions, FIELD REPRESENTATIVE, MAINTENANCE TRAINER, too many other boring
titles for brothers to fight for.
·
The
new headquarters is 1.6 million SQ ft, we need to build 5.9 million SQ ft of
new KH’s and if we add the renovations, the total comes to 7.4 Million SQ ft
·
If
we can just extend the life of all the KH’s by one year, the branch will save 80
million dollars
GB
Lett ended with a delusional talk where he said, “We are mightier than all the
nations”
To
summarize:
The
GB is focused on expanding there brand of JW.org, interesting how they are not
concerned about expanding Christianity but filling all the places of worship
with their blue JW logo. One comment that stood out, was how they want to have
a self-serve literature stand with a similar setup of the metropolitan preaching.
This is to help visitors connect with the street preaching and make them
feel comfortable when they enter the KH.
New
KH’s will have big screen TV’s where the yearly text goes, the sound will have
video, internet and a computer monitor. The conference room will be small and
next to the entrance for elders to meet with “an individual” we all know what
that means.
David
Splane closed the meeting with a prayer where he summarized the entire event.