Hey Reeves,

Thank you for the welcome.  Hi yuh John as well.

LOVE IN HIM,

Mari



At 04:36 PM 3/18/2007, you wrote:
>John, you bet I am a goat, and proud to be a goat, too! I am one of 
>God's Sheep, not His goats!
>
>I would like to welcome MariJean back to the list. She's been 
>missed!! She's my sister and best friend in the whole wide world, 
>except for Jesus Christ Himself, who is NOT of this world!
>
>GOD'S ETERNAL BLESSINGS,
>Reeva Parry.
>
>
>On Monday 3/12/2007 03:53 PM, John Schwery said:
>
>>Reeva, so now, you are a goat, right?  <smile>
>>
>>earlier, Reeva Parry, wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, Everyone!
>>>
>>>I was moved by Lyn Latham's message about her brothers. Lyn, I 
>>>want you to know that from the age of two and a half, I was raised 
>>>a Jehovah's Witness.
>>>
>>>I was not accepted in my neighborhood, my school, which was The 
>>>Ohio State School For The Blind, and the only true friends I had 
>>>were ham radio operators. I became a ham in 1961.
>>>
>>>I left the Witnesses in April of 1978. I had read the Bible for 
>>>myself since the age of nine, against my parents' wishes, but it 
>>>was in Braille, so they didn't know what I was reading, anyway, 
>>>until I started asking questions. Every time I asked a question 
>>>which was against The Society's teachings in New York, I got 
>>>slapped or spanked. I was spanked until I left home at the age of 
>>>twenty-nine to go to Arizona with my first husband in April of 
>>>1978. From there, I began searching for the Truth. I finally found 
>>>The Truth in 1982 when I was saved by the pastor of a small church 
>>>in Phoenix called Squaw Peak Covenant Church. The pastor came to 
>>>my house, having never met me before, but my second, and late, 
>>>husband was also there and had been a member of The Covenant Church there for
>>>twenty-one years.
>>>
>>>Anyway, when Worth Hodgin, the pastor at that time, came to my 
>>>house, John was already there and had explained what I needed to 
>>>do, having read me Scriptures about it. Worth just emphasized it, 
>>>telling me that when I let Jesus into my heart, I would have the 
>>>Peace that passes all understanding. Well, I was able to get on my 
>>>knees at that time, so I did it, and I asked Jesus into my heart 
>>>that day. I confessed my sins and told Him I was probably the 
>>>worst sinner there ever could be! When I got up, I felt such 
>>>Peace, I can't even begin to tell you how beautiful it felt!
>>>
>>>Going back to Jehovah's Witnesses, they don't salute the flag or 
>>>vote or accept blood transfusions, saying that accepting blood 
>>>transfusions is like eating someone else's blood because when you 
>>>eat food or take medicine in the hospital, it's usually by IV. 
>>>They spank their kids till they leave home, and some people never 
>>>leave home, so they get spanked at 60 years of age! I know a lady 
>>>whom that happened to, too. The meetings, as they are called, are 
>>>three times a week, two hours per session, except the Book Study 
>>>once a week. Yes, I said Book Study. They don't read the Bible 
>>>except The New World Translation, and a lot of Scriptures are 
>>>twisted, added, and taken away from any other Bible translations 
>>>I've ever read, and I've read all of them that I can get my little 
>>>fingers into!
>>>
>>>Children, even little babies, must be quiet, and if they're not, 
>>>they are taken to the back room of the Kingdom Hall and spanked 
>>>until their little bottoms are red with welts!
>>>
>>>Everything must agree with The Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society 
>>>at 124 Columbia Heights, New York, NY. My mother is still involved 
>>>with them to the extent that she won't talk to me on the phone 
>>>when I call her if she has Witness Friends over to her house in 
>>>Venice, Florida. She hangs up on me. She doesn't call me back. We 
>>>E-Mail once in a while, and when I can catch her without anyone 
>>>being there, she will talk for hours!
>>>
>>>I haven't seen her since November of 1983, and she's pushing 84 
>>>years of age now. I might as well resign myself to the fact that I 
>>>will never see her alive again! I have prayed for her Salvation, 
>>>and I've been praying for that for twenty-four years now. Would 
>>>all of you pray for her Salvation, please? My Dad died in 1997.
>>>
>>>Thanks for reading this, you guys!
>>>
>>>
>>>In Christian LOVE,
>>>Reeva Parry.
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tuesday 2/6/2007 08:10 AM, Lyn Latham said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hey yall,
>>>>You know, we more than likely have relatives or loved ones that 
>>>>are not related that we want to see come to know Jesus Christ.  I 
>>>>have 2 brothers myself.  One of them Riquo, (that's his new name 
>>>>now) is living an alternate lifestyle, and has 5 adopted 
>>>>boys.  My X. husband told me that they adopt boys to teach them 
>>>>that lifestyle, and I found it to be true because Riquo is always 
>>>>buying them things that a young man wouldn't wear.  My sister 
>>>>Janice has talked with him, but he will not talk to me.  He 
>>>>wouldn't even talk to me when I called on Christmas, brushed me 
>>>>off the phone and never called me back.  So, I can just pray for 
>>>>him.  The other brother, who is my eldest brother William is a 
>>>>Jehova's Witness.  He grew up in a home that knew the gospel, but 
>>>>there were never good examples of the gospel.  So, he became 
>>>>confused and hates church.  So, when his little girl was 2 years 
>>>>old, and he and my sister-in-law had just gotten married, someone 
>>>>came to his job talking about this to him, and I guess they 
>>>>persisted so much that his confused spirit was eating what felt 
>>>>like good food and there you have it.  Of course he sexual abused 
>>>>me from the time I was 6 till I was 13 when he met 
>>>>Sheila.  Boy.  Was I glad to find that out.  But one time I was 
>>>>sitting in with them cause I didn't have anything else to do, and 
>>>>he didnt' even care that I was there, they did what they did and 
>>>>I only knew that cause she asked if they were finished 
>>>>now.  Sorry about that, but it's a bad memory for me, and I 
>>>>remember that I quietly got up and left and went and hid in my 
>>>>room for fear I would be next.  But no more of that happened 
>>>>cause Sheila was my replacement.  They have been married for 
>>>>around 30 years, and I talk to William all of the time and I 
>>>>don't ever talk about it to him and we laugh a lot and talk about 
>>>>Grandma being the 411 of the family and all that silly 
>>>>stuff.  But sometimes I think about it but I really want him to 
>>>>be saved and get away from that horrible stuff.  I studied with 
>>>>them when he first became a witness as they call it, but I knew 
>>>>it wasn't right when I began to hear their songs played and sang 
>>>>backwards in my dreams at night.  Interesting how the Holy Spirit 
>>>>shows us things, isn't it?  Okay, enough of my writings, see yall later.