Reeva,

Thanks for sharing that testimony.  I'm praying for your mother.



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>From: Reeva Parry <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Some personal thoughts
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:33:19 -0600
>
>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.