by sir82 113 Replies latest jw friends
from here in mid mo...it's 122 miles to the st louis convention center...(that i was there
when it was built)....there are alot of congregations around here that makes it even further.
I can see it now at the end of a service meeting..."brothers and sisters..we need donations
to get our spiritual food" (insert puke).....they will make money going to get them!!
If an elder or ms has a car accident on the way to pick up the congregation's magazines, is he doing "company business" which opens the Watchtower to be sued? I think so. What if the elder has no or inadequate insurance. Watchtower pockets.
Bethel, are you thinking about this?
Skeeter
If an elder or ms has a car accident on the way to pick up the congregation's magazines, is he doing "company business" which opens the Watchtower to be sued?
I woundn't think so because he was doing this service as an unpaid volunteer donating his time and vehicle, which by law would be required to be insured. The driver would be assuming responsibility for whatever happened during this errand.
I think the "business insurance whilst driving a car " could be a issue here in the UK , if the driver has a smash while driving back with the car loaded with boxes and if the accident (even if it is very minor) and the police are called and see all the big boxes in the vehicle there will definitely be questions asked there could also be overweight issues which is very serious on vehicles here in the UK
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Don't know about anywhere else, but as long as I've been a witness, going on 30yrs, the brothers have always driven to the assembly hall to pick up magazines and publications.
Soft cover Bibles, does that refer to the new paperback bibles or to leather(Deluxe) Bibles?
I just saw one of the paperback NWT a couple weeks ago, how cheap looking!! Knorr must be spinning like crazy...
Oh well, most of the superzealous JWs just order a custom bound NWT from Stoops or Madzay anyway
No Apologies
Ok I just went "shopping" and was I surprised! There are a half-dozen companies hawking rebound publications and field service supplies for the trendy JWs. And they are not cheap!! The leather bound bibles start at about $50 or so, song books are not much less!
No Apologies
THERE WILL BE HUGE PUSHBACK ON THIS. take it from someone who used to run a literature depot.
cbb:
from here in mid mo...it's 122 miles to the st louis convention center...(that i was there when it was built)....there are alot of congregations around here that makes it even further.
CBB...you guys were "Pallet A" if I recall from my days there...LOL.... about 6 or 7 congos in that group.
blondie:
How close is St. Louis?
Jehovahs Witness Assembly Hall 953 Laredo Avenue St Louis Missouri 63138
I was the literature depot servant there, with a couple of gaps, for over 15 years. We only had literature coming through there. Magazines were talked about, but there was huge pushback from the congregations. Some congregations were coming from 3-4 hours (as far SW as Springfield, MO and as far SE as Metropolis, IL and as far west as where CBB is....and as far north as Urbana, IL.
As you can imagine, some brothers (and sisters) resented this, others seen it as a chance to get out of going out in service.... until we reduced the hours hours to Saturday afternoon or Friday morning only (I got tired of spending 8 hours there only to have hardly anyone show until after 12noon)....so the brothers could go out in service first.... Interestingly, if it was a young MS and his pioneer GF...there was no field service.... they would come with a 3rd person (so as to be chaperoned)...or another young couple, and they would come to St. Louis from the boonies and make a day trip of it to sightsee and shop...they would show up in jeans and tennis shoes and be real casual and you couldnt tell them apart from a so-called "worldly" person...
Before Romeoville opened (up by Chicago), we had congregations from where Troubled Mind was talking about come down once a month. What usually happened was a group of congregation (as an example "Pallet J -- Springfield IL" group, I think it was 12 congregations...5 in Springfield, and 7 surrounding congregations) would get together, one PO would coordinate who would get it each month... so the burden was only once a month.
Other congregations it was just too far...I was in Carlyle briefly...that was 75 miles each way.... they hated making that trip...they were too far north off the beaten path from the group that was just south of them....too far south from the group north apparently... eventually (esp after I left from my 4 month tenure there), they asked the Society to ship to them since it was outside the 50 mile radius.
Some congregations were bad about sending someone and their literature would sit until the next month....others would beg the assembly hall overseer (Tom Quinn at the time, retired to Cape Gireaudeau, MO recently I heard).... to let them get it outside of depot hours....
I can tell you that sorting literature used to be a huge undertaking...during the early days of the arrangement we would get a WT owned truck and 15 pallets of literature and other things (convention sound equipment, returning bethelite personal belongings, etc).... that was over 1500 boxes of literature...it would take 4 of us 6 hours to sort that out,,,,and that was after I had finished updating the sort list. There were times I had to it by myself....and it would take me 6 hours (it was easier to do it myself than work with some of the volunteers).
Before I left, they were down to less than 100 congregations (down from 150)..and maybe 2-3 pallets a month.... 200-300 boxes of literature...huge reductions in people ordering special orders, bound volumes especially.... people just used the WT CD....at the end it was local LTL (less than load) commercial carriers dropping off the pallets ....
I am so glad I am out of all of that...it used to take up tons of my time, both on the literature depot end...and on the literature servant end. I met some decent people during that time....and some as$holes.
Snakes (Rich )
If they were really smart, they'd start offering PDF and audiobook subscriptions.
