by Paul Bonanno 11 Replies latest jw friends
Assembly halls are also a scam.
The congregations pay to build it and then they have to rent it to use it.
Renovations are a scam.
They generally do a renovation a year or so before they are going to close the congregation down and sell the hall.
This is all done on the hush hush so the congregants give all their grocery and ice cream money to keep their little congregation going.
One day at the end of a meeting a letter will be read and the congregation will be disbanded.
It's been awhile, but the loan arrangement was set aside in reality. No loan to be paid back but a WTS determined how much money must be "donated" to the WTS, now based on a WTS determined a dollar amount per publisher, in the US I think it is $8.50. And that is required. The WTS now has the bank account info of each congregation on the website (limited access though) they can dip into (correct me if I wrong). And instead of a loan that is paid off, the congregation keeps giving until the WTS says it ends. Yes, that must be paid first, before utilities, and other congregation expenses. My husband did the accounts for some time, he was an accountant.
