Hi Reeva,
I will keep your mother in my prayers.  I am glad you were persistent in 
searching out the truth.  Good to see you here and my prayers and blessings 
headed your way.
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Reeva Parry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Some personal thoughts


> 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.