Welcome from Randall Watters
Hello and welcome to our AJWRB CONTRIBUTIONS website. Our site is new, so you will continue to see changes to the content in the coming months. We welcome you to check back for new updates about our organization and the cause we are supporting. All contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S.
How Is the AJWRB.ORG site going?
Former Bethelite of six years Zen and I have been feverishly working on our new website for AJWRB.ORG that I inherited about a year ago. Marvin Shilmer, one of the main directors of the former site (which was NOT a non-profit organization but now is part of one, Free Minds, Inc.) decided he was better doing a regularly updated blog, and he has done a great job on it. The blog is now linked from AJWRB.ORG on the front page. The new site is now live but we will continue working on it, adding more content and features each week. Suggestions are appreciated.
Zen is finishing up linking all the previous articles into new categories and will have a site map that makes it easy to find your favorite articles. It is live now.
Next week he will start setting up three forums, or discussion boards. One is for doctors only, one is for active Witnesses only and will offer No Blood advice and the latest Watch Tower teachings. The third is for educating the public and discussing the blood issue. each will have it's own discussion forum, two private and one public.
Zen concluded last time by saying: "As for my purpose in being involved with AJWRB, it is simple: Saving the lives of Jehovah's Witnesses. I love Jehovah's Witnesses and I don't want any of them to die. My own mother father are Jehovah's Witnesses, and most of my family too, so that makes them the most important people in my life."
We would very much like to be able to afford to have a part-time job for Zen in helping me with my websites rejuvenation project, as we have several sites to go. We are also gradually fixing all the bugs in the huge Freeminds site, which has discouraged some of you in the past. But come back and visit, it's getting better every day!
Helpful Youtube Videos We Like
We would like to feature our favorite Youtube video with each issue of this newsletter. This month's fave is below. When word of the disassociation/disfellowshipping of one of the members of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses went 'round the world in 1980, it rocked many long-term members of the Watchtower sect. Raymond Franz tried too hard to get the Governing Body to understand how to use the Bible to govern people, rather than cold hard rules. There are no rules for true Christians! That was the surprise ending of the lives of John May and his brother Derek, as well as Martin Merriman. Like in the Wizard of Oz, They came seeking help and Dorothy found out she had the power to leave Oz all along. Her pals found various ways of renewing their lives as well. That's what Freeminds is all about - finding the REAL YOU.
So, brash as they were, elders John May and Martin Merriman set out from Ireland to talk to the Governing Body themselves, to see if these things were really true. The outcome was like the first visit of Dorothy to see the Wizard of Oz with her friends she had met along the way in the land of Oz. Fascinating story!
Watch both of these two short trailers, just 2-3 minutes long each. To see the whole 90 minute interview on Youtube, go HERE.
Trailer one: This discusses what the brothers in Ireland were up to and why they were so concerned with that had happened in the Watchtower leadership in 1979.
Trailer two: John May and Martin are in for a surprise if they can crack this organization's obscurity.