Another congregation bites the dust

by bluesapphire 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  bluesapphire

  The Chino Hills congregation in Chino, CA is being dismantled due to lack of publishers. They are dividing the remaining ones into the two other Chino congregations. Seems attendance has dropped since the Steve Morales serial rapist thing.

  It was a few years ago. An up and coming ministerial servant gave the public talk and was about to be appointed elder. A few weeks later he was arrested and subsequently convicted of being a serial rapist in Orange County California.

  Didn't sit too well with the publishers I guess.
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  Yerusalyim

  Cool deal, any news story links? Just curious as to the source of the info on the dismantling.
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  Reborn2002

  It is always good news to hear that a Jehovah's Witness congregation has been disbanded.

  One less congregation full of Watchtower lies and hypocrisy to spread and infect the local community.

  However I wish it had been under better circumstances, and not due to a serial rapist. I guess Jehovah's spirit was appointing a ministerial servant / elder who got his jollies off raping a large number of people eh?

  Some God.
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  Gopher

  An up and coming ministerial servant gave the public talk and was about to be appointed elder. A few weeks later he was arrested and subsequently convicted of being a serial rapist...

  HAHAHA. He got what he deserved. Hey I thought Jehovah's pure teachings made the JW's better people than everyone else? So what was that judge doing, convicting poor Brother Morales? It MUST have been some misunderstanding.

  (Just quoting what the elders said to Heidi Meyer when she brought forth her evidence about her JW molestor -- she must have "misunderstood" his actions...)
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  shamus

  Oh well..... one down, more to go, hopefully!
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  blondie

  The mistake Steve Morales made was raping non-JW adults. Now if he had been raping JW children, they probably would have made him an elder.

  Blondie
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  SheilaM

  Right Blondie
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  bluesapphire

  Hi. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this. I had major computer problems.

  yeru: I have quite a few friends left in the congregation being affected. They all tell the same story. Everything went sour when Steve Morales was arrested and later convicted. No matter what anyone says .... the jw's know this means Jehovah's spirit was *at the very least* not with THIS congregation. He was about to be appointed pending Brooklyn approval. He was giving public talks.

  everyone else: Some of the die hards actually have said, "Steve sought help after he raped the last girl (who was 12 years old!!!). He called the police and said he needed help. Yeah right. This claim has never been substantiated. Steve was cought because his truck was found in the neighborhood where the rapes occurred and he had an outstanding warrant. Then he was identified by every one of the girls who came forward and the DNA matched.

  What is the ratio of victims of rape per rapist? Isn't it something like for every one who comes forward there are seven others who don't. Not hard to do the math here.

  Sad part is that he has a beautiful wife and three children. The wife doesn't believe it and is waiting on Jehovah to clear things up.