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In this podcast, Ryan shares his experience on what it was like making choices as a young person graduating from high school. Unfortunately, the advice given by the elders in the congregation left him feeling helpless and hopeless when they begin encouraging him to regular pioneer.

After taking the advice of the elders, Ryan chose to regular pioneer but quickly realized that he was unable to pay his bills. He was just struggling to survive.  Fortunately, Ryan woke up and began to reexamine his situation. 

Perhaps you have had a similar experience where you gave up dreams, goals and aspirations to please the brothers in your local congregation. This happens all too many times where young people make decisions that drastically affect their ability to take care of their material needs much later in life. And, as Ryan discusses in this video, he was struggling to make ends meet every day.

We hope this presentation will help you to think about your own career choices as you begin to navigate the waters in the "real world".

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In this episode, we explore six important instructions given to elders during the Kingdom Ministry Schools regarding the Watchtower judicial process. These guidelines aim to maintain confidentiality and uphold the authority of the organization. We delve into each instruction, discussing its significance and potential impact on the judicial proceedings. Join us as we examine the reasons behind these reporting restrictions and their implications for the decision-making process within the congregation. Whether you're a current or former Jehovah's Witness or simply interested in understanding the inner workings of religious organizations, this episode offers valuable insights into the Watchtower judicial system.

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The Jehovah's Witnesses & the Memorial
What happens after the festivities of passing the bread and the wine?
How many people will partake this year?

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Eva is from upstate New York and one of eight siblings. She was a fifth generation Jehovah's Witness and her parents and grand parents her Holocaust survivors. All her siblings are still active in the organization. Eva has over twenty years’ experience in accounting and has decades of experience in investigating retail financial fraud and management. Eva is an advocate for individuals struggling with leaving high control religions and supporting their efforts to rejoin society. Eva has a commitment in life to be a compassionate Christian and have love for all individuals.

WITNESSING FREEDOM
https://witnessingfreedom.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport_%E2%80%93_The_Arrival
https://kindertransport-memorial.org/
https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/the-holocaust/kindertransport-refugees/

RECOVERING FROM SPIRITUAL ABUSE
David Henke
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Abuse-Recovery-Workbook-educational-ebook/dp/B09CF1FK4R

Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
https://www.amazon.com/Nicky-Vera-Holocaust-Children-Rescued/dp/1324015748


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In this episode, you will meet June and Jared from the YouTube channel JUST JUNE:
https://www.youtube.com/@justjune9517

Learn how Jared and his children allow themselves to speak freely about how they feel about being one of Jehovah's Witnesses. They make changes to their dress & grooming and something even more profound, their attitude about the religion as a whole. All of this is taking place and unfolding during the time June is in a rehab for 30 days. 

In fact, June begins to take notice of the subtle changes during their weekly visits with her at her facility.

Find out what happens and how they are able to finally get June, to wake up and see the fallacies of the Watchtower, Bible & Tract Society.

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Special livestream where we will have a live group chat about the latest changes in Watchtower leadership.

Panelists

• Jack Grey - FEAR TO FREEDOM https://www.youtube.com/@UC7klhJjpzXeADwXHu1wdxsA 
• David H
• Efrain 
• Tim Sanfino
• Wendell Smith
• Collin - https://www.youtube.com/@covisit2023

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Guilt tripping again? Make up your mind Watchtower. First you had Mr. Hendricks participating in interviews stating that your physical location for worship does not matter. Now, you are doing commentary about those with good health and how they should be returning back to in person meetings at the Kingdom Hall. 

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This podcast starts out reading a list of individuals and the podcaster then asks the pointed question: so now what do all of these people have in common? That's right they are celebrity Jehovah's Witnesses. And now we have Serena Williams!

For many years people ask the question is Serena Williams one of Jehovah's Witnesses because at the end of each game she would often make the statement "I have to thank Jehovah God",  so people would ask the question, is she one of Jehovah's Witnesses? And today,  we have the answer. She's a dedicated baptized Jehovah's Witness.

You know there are people who will often look and say I can't believe that she became a Jehovah's Witness. Well, it's important to keep in mind what it's like to be raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. All your life you're told whenever you have a problem, whenever things are going bad in your life, whenever you get yourself together, return to Jehovah. And today, Serena Williams has retired from her career. She's married she has a child, and it often causes people to reflect differently on their lives.

One of the things that we know that she probably didn't do, is take the time to do the research that we encourage everybody to do. We have found that many people leave the Jehovah’s Witness organization and will be gone for years and sometimes decades. They fail to take the time to ask critical thinking questions about what they learned about this religion.

Instead, they simply come right back to the religion without asking questions without doing their own personal research. As a result, there are so many things that they fail to understand about the religion that impacted their life in every aspect of it. You know there’s something interesting that happens for people who are celebrity Jehovah’s Witnesses things that a regular Jehovah's Witness if they were to do would get them in a lot of trouble well as a celebrity witness is often overlooked.

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