When I was 7 my (non-JW) dad kicked me, my mum and my little sister out. In this emergency some JW's came through for us - mum went straight to the home of the sister who brought her into the truth (we have no living family and she was the nearest friend) and she put us up in her home for months until we got a council home.
When we moved in we had no furniture or carpets and no money to buy any, but within days a sister in our cong had found us carpets for all the rooms (my bedroom carpet was and still is a huge rug that was once in the old Kingdom Hall!), and her and my mum cut the living room carpet with child's scissors part of the way (absolutely not kidding), another sister gave us an old sofa and a 2-ring stove until we could get a proper cooker.
Of course this is exactly how Christians are supposed to behave - not necessarily being able to provide things like these sisters did, but at least to offer whatever help they can. But according to the JW's they didn't behave like *their* idea of how Christians should behave *enough*, because I'm pretty sure the sister who helped with the carpets is now DF'd and the one who helped with the sofa and stove *certainly* got DF'd less than 18 months later.
And the vast majority in the cong we had first when we moved to where we are now wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire. Many times we'd been badly in need of help (not even financial or material help, just advice or support) and elders there told mum to "pray about it"...
Ugh, glad to be out of it, I just wish people I care about were away from them too... This is my first post - I've been looking what I've written for ages debating whether or not to send this - it's insane but I'm so scared of getting in trouble for posting here! I'm really nervous - it's ridiculous isn't it.
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