Hello,
I'm a df from Ukraine, Odessa city, Seregey Kolesnikov.
It is a former republic of the former USSR, so it is Russian speaking area.
I have been just asked by my friends to assist them in one affair. They are from Moscow area and deep Russia.
This is their petition to all over the world brothers for assistance:
"We are a group (body) of JWs (former ones, and active but having discrepancies with views onto some issues of the official teachings and the attitude of the leadership of WTBTS). We would very pleased to contact to br. Mark Jackson from Great Britain (his wife is Julia ), about 30, who had been appointed to serve as a DISTRICT overseer in the theocratic district including Moscaw, Nizhny Novgorod, Cyrov(Kirov). At about September 2004 he has been DF. We want to contact to him to get to know what?s up, and what has been the reason for his DF. Isn't it something wrong with the teaching of WTBTS that he has found out as conflicting to the Bible? If he is as we believe morally clear according to the biblical moral code, and his "sin" is really only in it, then we would like to ?be comforted together with him by the mutual faith both of his and ours." (Romans 1:12).
We will be appreciated for every kind of information about him."
Look, of course, he speaks Russian.
Please, be so kind to be very specific and give your information in very plain English as it is of some not so little effort to understand another language, especially spoken idioms. (especially for JWs , you see.)
We will check this topic for answers but if you will be able to inform Mark of this personally , then ask him also to reply to this my address in Russian language that I could hand him over to my friends:
Also there is big Russian Orthodoxy forum where people discuss the sectarian problems and problems of JWs as well:
http://www.kuraev.ru/forum/main.php?section=3
Those my friends browse it regularly and wait that Mark will open a new topic with his name.
Those people wait for him!
Serge.