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  2016-1-12-BOE--Mentioning Donation Arrangement to Householder!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2016-1-12-boe.

  "apply yourself to the field ministry," the "initial call" assignmentdirects the student to mention the donation arrangement..http://postimg.org/image/tayz8pawn/..atlantis!

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  USofWhatever

  In most of Europe, you are unable to solicit funds in this way. I remember when the the donation arrangement was bought in to ireland, we were specifically told not to mention that donations were accepted until asked by the householder
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  Do you give thanks for every meal?

  by bruh in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you give thanks for every meal or do you thank god once for the whole day of meals???

  is thanking god for every meal scriptural or something that came along in early christianity ?

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  only to the person who prepared it - god had as little to do with providing and preparing the food as he does in stepping in to end world hunger, genocide etc...
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  Looking for X jw friends in Sacramento CA. Gotta start my social life allllll over grrrrr

  by sister x in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my names michelle, i was a babit zed witness and left the org three years ago after thorough research of its past teachings.

  when i walked away i left behind all my close friends, and associates.

  i do miss the christian companionship and association.

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  my wife and I are in our late 20's/early 30's in San Francisco, let us know if you're ever down here
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  New announcement at this weeks midweek meeting?

  by rosyray in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the congregation i'm from is having their meeting tonight.

  my husband said that his brother in law, who is an elder, called and said that there were going to be some big announcements tonight and to bring a notepad, because you will want to take notes.. does anybody know about this and what are the announcements?

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  probably to do with the international assemblies - a whole lot of nothing as usual
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  Foreign language field - the curious Watchtower cutback?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most of the recent watchtower cutbacks can be explained as money saving exercises: closing branches, paperback books, fewer pages in the magazines, sending bethelites home and so on.. but a few different posters have reported that the watchtower society are also cutting back on the foreign field ministry.

  for many years foreign language congregations have been a major source of growth for the watchtower in many lands.

  so why would they choose to scale it down?.

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  Well in my home country, there was a big song and dance about the French field (due to Refugee's from French Africa). However the government made a restriction that just because you were born in the country did not make you Irish. The immigration tide came to a halt as soon as they did that.

  There were a number of french groups around the place, supported by oddbods from France that moved over. Eventually, the CO's disbanded all by 1 of them in Dublin as the congregations were not growing, but self sustaining (ie more people from France moved over to "help" in the field, but there was no growth).

  I was in an english congregation in Spain, and there was a huge amount of growth for a while, so much so we had to split the district assembly up, some of us had to go to Madrid, others to Benidorm. Then when the pound started to lose against the euro, english pensioners "surfing" where the "need was great" started to leave, meaning that some english congregations were disbanded, and others amalgamated into being groups in the hall.

  It is all very practical, but i remember the atmosphere being one of shrinking rather than "stream lining"
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  Email conversation with a colleague

  by zakharijah in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to share this conversation i had by email with a jw colleague last year at easter.

  (on my professional email address).

  or how can you say to your brother, allow me to extract the straw from your eye; when, look!

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  USofWhatever

  agree that this could have gone the other way completely. She seems "genuinely" concerned. I could be waaay off but is she a recent convert? I often found that the ones that were that way inclined were the recently converted rather than the born ins, who (in my experience) were far more easy going about those sort of things.
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  WTF... JW Library ranks #4 in the Top (Free) Charts on Apple Store for iPhone/iPad

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  checking out the apple store for any new cool apps, and lo and behold!

  i see that the wts has finally embraced that demonic form of information dispensing.

  and all jah's chil'ren are snapping it up.

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  They won't put a donate function in - apple would take a cut...but speaking from a developers perspective, it's a pretty nice app