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.