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.
>
>
>
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