Help from former elders/those in the know of inner workings requested.

by kwintestal 10 Replies latest members private

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  Some further items:

  • if you are newly contacted, your name and address and comments about you may be on a Follow-Up Interest Slip (sf) or the Foreign Language Follow-Up Slip (S-70);
  • there are all the informal lists and forms within every congregation: group lists, hall cleaning schedules, attendant schedule, microphone handling schedule, etc;
  • if you filled out the Society's Health-Care Advance Directive (the large form, not the blood card: I think it's called something else in the US), you may have sent a copy of it to your local HLC, and may also have given copies to the JWs who witnessed your signature;
  • if you ever auxiliary pioneered, the congregation secretary may still have your application form (S-205b) on file, even though the Society's instructions are that they are destroyed at the end of the month, unless the publisher "ticked the box" to continue pioneering until further notice (however, I knew of one secretary who had hoarded them for almost 20 years!);
  • if you ever regular pioneered, your Application for Regular Pioneer Service (S-205) will be held by the Society;
  • the congregation secretary will have on file a copy of your Regular Pioneer Appointment Letter (S-236);
  • when the secretary completed the annual Congregation Analysis Report (S-10), on the back page he will have listed every pioneer and their total hours for the year;
  • when you stopped regular pioneering, your Notification for Discontinuing Regular Pioneer Service (S-206) will be held by the Society;
  • if you were a special pioneer, you sent your monthly field service reports directly to the Society; other than that, there will be the equivalent for special pioneers of all the regular pioneer forms listed above;
  • if your congregation secretary compiled the monthly reports on his computer (most did), he will probably still have a copy on his PC of all the information on your Congregation's Publisher Record Card (S-21)--name and address and telephone number, etc, plus all your field service reports going back many years. (Interestingly, this used to be called the Publisher's Record Card: a problem arose when JWs left and demanded to take "their" card with them, so Congregation's was added to the front of the name, to emphasise that the card didn't belong to the publisher.)
  • if you were an elder or MS, the Society will have the original Letter of Recommendation of Elders and Ministerial Servants (S-2) and the congregation secretary will have a copy: or you may appear on the form Appointment and/or removal of elders and/or ministerial servants at the Society's direction (S-52);
  • if you were PO or secretary, your name may have appeared on the S-29 (Presiding Overseer Change of Address, Secretary Name Change form);
  • if you've been caught doing what you ought not , you may be on one--or more!--Notification of Disfellowshipping or Disassociation (S-77) and Record of Disfellowshipping or Disassociation (S-79) forms;
  • if you've been a cause of "concern" in the congregation, you may have been 'mentioned in dispatches,' in a Report on Circuit Overseer's Visit With Congregation form (S-303);
  • if you were a Bethelite, at Gilead, a circuit or district overseer, there are a whole host of forms covering their applications, recommendations, appointments, notification to congregations, etc;
  • if you worked on quick builds, you will probably have filled out a Kingdom Hall Volunteer Worker Questionnaire (S-82) which will be held by your local Regional Building Committee;
  • if you had an accident at a Kingdom Hall, an Accident Report (T-5) will have been completed and sent to the Society;
  • one of the most interesting forms is the Personal Qualifications Report (S-326), more commonly known as a PQR. The Society (usually Service department) will usually ask someone whose judgment they trust (often a district overseer, gilead instructor or branch committee member) to fill out this secret report on someone they have in mind for promotion. Question 8 asks, "What responsibilities do you believe the person would be able to fulfil at this time?" and there is a list of options with tick boxes next to each. I smiled over the last two options: "[ ] Branch overseer (small country--up to 15 congregations) [ ] Branch overseer (anywhere)." So the person filling out the form has the option, if the subject is a real schmuck, of recommending he is shunted off to bongo-land where he won't be able to do much damage...

  Regards,

  Ken