My MIL, who is part of a Portuguese speaking congregation, told my wife that they began giving everyone an english copy of the internal study version of the WT along with their Portuguese copy. She's worried because she thinks they are planing to eventually move them to an english congregation, like they have done with other languages in the area already. I think there might be a real lack of brothers to take the lead in these foreign congs and the ones they do have are aging rapidly. So they might be preparing them for the inevitable. Or maybe they are giving out the english copy to benefit the younger ones who's first language is english.
She is a bit paranoid because back in the early 90's they eliminated Portuguese congregations altogether for about 5 or 6 years before opening a few back up, and I don't think she fully recovered from it. She pretends it doesn't bother her, but I know it does.
Can anyone from a foreign group let me know if they are doing this in other congregations as well?
