Another avenue of service that the BORG always tries to shove down the mouths of youth/single peeps is that of going to M.T.S. (Ministerial Training School). If Bethel isn't your cup of tea, then M.T.S. is the way to go. When the program first started it seemed more geared towards training these single brothers and sending them into missionary, serving where the need is great, circuit, district, or branch assignments. But now it seems more geared to just acquainting brothers on organizational procedure and sending them back to their home congregations to promote/enforce WTS policy.
I think overall that program is a bust! The Society would train these brothers (often city brothers) for two months and based on that would send them into assignments, sometimes remote islands or backwoods/hick towns and they would just shrivel up and die.
Bethelites HATED M.T.S. brothers. I remember when I was at the house, there was this one brother (I'm forgetting his name) whose M.T.S. assignment was BETHEL. Get this....he went to M.T.S. so that he wouldn't have to get to Bethel and that was his assignment. Pure comedy. Anyhow, there were Bethel brothers there who were hopping mad over the fact that here they have been there for years, but yet this M.T.S. brother comes into Bethel (without having to apply), gets to sit at GB tables for morning worship, and seems like he's being groomed for future priviliges. In fact this one brother, who I believe was a Bethel elder serving at his hall would say all the time that Bethelites should have been considered first for M.T.S. before any outsiders (outside of Bethel).
The M.T.S. brother was smart as a whip, kind of a free-thinker and was an eager beaver, but there were Bethel brothers out to get this cat. I used to overhear this one bethel elder who was in his congregation talk about how he was lookin' to nail him. They used to send fucked up congregation reports to his work overseer, would tell the C.O. that the brother was monitoring him and reporting back to Bethel heavies about his visits, they took this cat and put him into cleaning to as this one brotha said "to test his fitness", etc. One day, the M.T.S. brother just had it and upped and left. No explanation, nothing. I heard he just left all that shit and went off to college or something and was never heard from again (probably making loads of dough). I think the idiot Bethelites just broke his spirit. He seemed cool. Anyway, there were a whole bunch of bethel dudes that used that example to prove that m.t.s. brothers couldn't hack it and ever since then they seemed to just send them back to their local congo after the course was finished.
It's something how the BORG tries to tout how they have all of these alternatives in the ministry but its all empty rhetoric. It's also something how the BORG wastes potential. I could've seen that kid as some kinda computer whiz or pr guy. I knew this other brother that went to M.T.S. and they had him stay away from his home for the 2-months. He worked out with a different congregation and got a bethelite monthly stipend ($90). He said it was lot being part of Bethel without having to be in the institution. He got sent back to his congo and then got sent to the boonies somewhere (arkansas) where he then started to do a slow fade-out. He was from Chicago. Anybody know any other M.T.S. dudes?