@Bugbear The first christians started with small groups and indeed did meet in private homes. That is exactly as we do too. We meet wherever we can. However private homes can only offer a limited space and we also noticed that as soon as a nice Kingdom Hall is built there are a lot more people (interested ones) attending meetings. So, besides the fact that it offers more space and is a better facility to meet and conduct things like the theocratic ministry school and organise our ministry, a decent Kingdom Hall attracts a lot more visitors.
Posts by emeth
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324Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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emeth
@bobld they need 13,000 Kingdom Halls not because of the increase of publishers per year but because many congregations are meeting in rented facilities, private homes and even sheds in the jungle and countryside of certain countries.
So those congregations already exist,.. sometimes even for many years. But they dont have a kingdom hall yet. So thats why we need a lot of them
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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emeth
for me nothing will change.... every month i make contributions to 4 different funds
the Kingdom Hall Construction Worldwide
the Local Congregation
the Worldwide Work
the new assembly hall (for 3400 people) and educational facilities that we are building here the coming years
So soon 2 contribution boxes will be taken away and two of them will remain.
But i will donate the same amount of money and will combine what i contributed to the new assembly hall and the Kingdom Hall construction fund and put it in the local congregation box
same amount of contributions but just another box...
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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emeth
@the searcher i can only speak for myself and my own congregation, but we help eachother out, even financially or with food, material and even shelter if that is necessary. We do that as brothers and sisters and most of the time in private.
We dont use and dont need Kingdom Hall funds to do so ,but use just our own money.
@CBG in my country there are no widows without pension. And we have a say about our money but also have the same goal and purpose all over the world. We are not a local organisation but a worldwide one. Therefor its only logic that the money will be used to serve our common goal and purpose.
Strange thing is that apostates are worrying more about where the money goes than those witnesses. Let me remind you... its not your money...its theirs
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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emeth
Our congregation has U$42,000 on the local bank account. But what is the benefit of having money sleeping on the shelf of local congregations? It would be much better if this money is going to be used where there is a need.
so there are about 114,000 congregations a lot of them have a small or bigger surplus,.. make a pile of that money and you get a mountain.
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget injust read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
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emeth
@baltar447 you said ; "Why do they need all this money??? For what??? It ain't building KH's we know they are lying about needing to build so many."
As a matter a fact we do need those Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls. In Europe we start in 7 countries with big and new assemblyhalls for crowds of 2000-3500 people.
A multimillion dollar project for a new assembly hall is already started in the Netherlands. 6 other european countries will follow. Furthermore we do need those 13,000 kingdom halls.
Besides that, in many parts of the world the witnesses are still meeting in private houses or in sheds instead of kingdom halls.
In the philippines alone they made 1000 Kingdom Halls in just one decade and they are still building more there.
http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/construction/1000-kingdom-halls-philippines/
And that is just one country.
Furthermore this arrangement will replace the contribution box for the worldwide kingdom hall fund. The contribution box will be taken away. I think its a very smart move that will enable us to do much more in the coming years.
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If The Organization Was A Country, Then.......?
by metatron ina different way to look at the organization.. suppose that the organization was a country of 8 million or so.
given that jw's believe that god will one day slaughter everyone else and leave them to inherit the globe, this is a fair matter to think about.. would "watchtowerland" be a theocracy..... like iran?.
would it be ruled by a group of old men........like the former soviet union?.
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emeth
If The Organization Was A Country, Then.......?
at some point in time the rest of humanity would kill for a Green Card
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I dropped TTATT to some door knockers today
by TheStumbler intwo jws came to my door today and i dropped a few truths bombs on them.
i thought i'd share my account of how the conversation went.. .
i was in the yard doing some weeding when two gentlemen walked through the gate.
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emeth
no big deal we drop our truth to millions of people after knocking their doors and manage to turn hundreds of thousands of them in doorknockers each year
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Another earthquake and possible tsunami. " the end must be close!"
by stuckinarut2 inso we have heard of an earthquake today, and possible tsunami...and immediately i am told.
" well we must be close".
it is as if the witnesses are so happy that another tragedy has occurred!
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emeth
why would an earthquake make God look cruel?
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"the world has never been worse" - not according to this website..
by disposable hero of hypocrisy innext week's wt is full of helpful encouragement not to believe satanic propaganda that might tell us that the world is getting to be a better place to live in.. .
well, i stumbled across this article here, that contains lots of so-called 'facts' and 'figures', i'm sure glad i read my wt first so i can recognise that this is nothing but lies, all lies.. .
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emeth
the world has never been worse.... as a matter a fact if there is no God all of us are doomed