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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