When will the WTS admit that this arrangement is a bust - financially, emotionally, aesthetically. MTS was something that started in 1987 for those who wanted to pursue other avenues of services without having to go through bethel service. It originally was intended to be an abbreviated gilead course with brothers receiving assignments to go into the circuit work, missionary service, special pioneer work or to serve where the need was greater (which oftentimes translated to the boonies or starkly rural areas).
The greater majority of brothers who were given assignments would then have meltdowns because they were often sent into assignments that in no way was in line with their skill-set, background, locale they were raised in, etc. There were even some who were sent to **gasp** Bethel, where they could see the action up close, only to be later disillusioned and go back home. The majority of assignments brothers now receive from MTS? Being sent back to their local congregations like fish thrown back in the water. So for two months, brothers get gilead-style training only to be sent back home in hopes of serving in their home congos. WHAT A WASTE!!
It's even more of a waste when most, if not all these bros have foregone college in hopes of receiving this perceived theocratic higher education only to find that it doesn't carry any value and that you'll be sent back to your originally congo anyway..........