So, we had our new CO (who actually seemed nice and somewhat personable in his own way.)
He gave a talk titled something like "Do we sacrifice to Jehovah?"(can't remember the exact title.) I expected the usual "Go out in Service. Pioneer, etc....."
He did touch on those subjects briefly. Very Briefly. However the majority of the talk was on real-estate and money:
"We need young brothers who are handy to work on the Walkill project. You'll have so much fun, too!"
"Can you volunteer to work on the RBC - to advance Kingdom interests?"
"There was a country that didn't have the NWT translation in their language. And the brothers were so poor that the whole congregation had only 1 bible. It cost the equivalent of a year's salary. Of course the translation committee got to work. And at the District convention a member of the GB introduced the the NWT in their language. He mentioned that all would get a copy. Brothers were crying out of joy. Even the GB brother got choked up. Brothers never under estimate what our contributions can accomplish in less-developed countries."
"At Family Worship (tm) night, some families have decided to donate a certain amount to the World Wide Work (tm)"
This one was particulary distasteful:
"The branch received a letter: ' Dear Brothers, I recently received an inheritance. Since my needs are small. And my wants even smaller. Please accept this amount [as a donation]"
"Little [Jimmy] wrote a letter sating he saved up this money and wanted to help in buying a printing press"
"Brothers, the cose of ink and paper continues to climb."
And so it went on. And on. And on. The whole talk presented very little information, nothing of any "spiritual" content. Much more different and focused that what I remember from any previous visit.
BTW, I got the idea for this thread from BroMac's comment on another thread. It was the same story in my cong:
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the new CO was round the other week. at the tues night meeting his first talk was nothing more than give us your money... the whole thing give give give. even mentioned how some kids decided in their family worship to give money from their savings towards the new print presses. hey why not Give of your time to the rbc? they have outlines from hq for the week.
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