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Hello Friends. Tell me, is it common practice or just something that we used to do in our small congregation. While I was in the Portuguese congregation, The elders did so much to take care of the pioneers. Besides the theocratic stuff, making sure there was always territory, support for service, special preaching campaigns, They would treat the pioneers to luncheons or dinners. Every time there was a pioneer meeting with the CO or just with the elders, they would organize food or snacks. Sometimes there was a musical presentation. Every year, i would buy pocket calendars from MJC or madzay for the pioneers. It was always something to make them feel appreciated. Since we moved to English, I noticed that the elders here just dont have the impetus to do anything special for them. I've tried to get it going but nothing seems to get the ball rolling. I make mention of at least doing something special for the new service year, but it seems that the only ones that want to contribute are other regular pioneers. I think my wife is tired of me spending so much money every year. Our congregation has like 26 reg pioneers. Last year there was a sister that gave the pioneers monogrammed cookies with their names and happy new service year written on them. We gave them little gift bags. Little glass sheep salt shakers. We tied little scriptures related to sheeplike ones etc to each one. We gave them little packets of seeds with a label that said something like Sew your seed in the morning etc etc. And several other little small gifts. So tell me, Do other congregations do anything special for their pioneers or was that something that they do in our neck of the woods? If you do, what ideas do you have for small inexpensive gifts.

So funny, my 5 yo son brought home "god bless you" from school but right away He says "bless you is PAGAN". Just before the pandemic got bad in AZ, we went up to the reservation to Monument valley. The restaurant had a few people have a birthday next to us. As soon as they started singing i started trying to distract him. He looked so Mad, frustrated, and confused at the same time. it started quietly, "birthday is pagan" "Birthday Is PAGAN" then "BIRTHDAY IS PAGAN!!!" as loud as he could! All i could say was, Good job papa, sit down. He will be home schooled when ever they decide to start kinder out here tho. With him being autistic, it will definitely be a challenge.

Looks like its officially gone! The end of an era. 2012-2019 if im not mistaken. Im gonna miss that site. But so amazing to see the incorporation.

I got you tell you folks, You guys are awesome!!. I don't know why my own search did not turn up this result, but I am extremely glad you found it. I wonder if our sister that was looking for this, found the same article. And I wonder if they reprise (reprose, reprasied don't know the proper tense) the same theme later in other graduations. That might be why she thought it was on a more recent graduation. In any case Thank you Thank you Thank you all for your research.

Hello friends.. One of our sisters was asking about a video talk on the broadcast site. She thinks its titled : "Do not become the thing you hate." I could not find it in the Morning worship section. So i think it may be in a gilead graduation or something. Can anyone help me find it? She thinks it may be Mark Noumair that gave the talk, but not sure.

I always thought you were not supposed to. They applauded after the chairman thanked the visiting brother for giving the talk.

Is there a list available that shows all the languages the NWT 2013 is available in? I ask because i'm in the Portuguese congregation and we sadly still don't have our new bibles nor the inserts like the Spanish congregation does. I've seen the Russian bible minus the Intro and the Glossary and Korean bible released at their convention. Does anyone know what other languages are available?