Jehovah Witness have you ever participate in the building of our kingdom Halls?

My first experience with these building projects was in 1975, it was an assembly hall, and before the quick build process. From the clearing of weeds and blackberries from the site, to the final beautiful assembly hall, it took a few months in all. I have had the privilege to be involved with several projects since then. Each one more organized and streamlined. All to Jehovah's praise.

We just recently had our Kingdom Hall renovated also and I opened my home to those coming from far away and provided food at the Hall also. It's always a good experience and much fun to meet brothers and sisters from other places. One sister was from Rwanda, Africa, another sister was going to the eastern side of the Hudson Bay in Canada when she left to witness to people that had never seen a witness before. One sister had nine children that she and her husband raised being missionaries in South America. What these Witnesses go through is amazing. I could listen to them forever. We also used a neighboring Kingdom Hall on off days to their meetings.

No i missed the last one in 2007 that was the year I opened my door to a an elderly couple and did a bible study with them for 2 years. Currently I Attend bible meetings saturdays with a variety of Jehovah witness. Every week i have a different instructor. last week these 2 17 year old were running the meeting

No I haven't, well, not really anyway. When I was little we had a quickbuild and I remember going and helping set out food and once the hall was finished I helped clean it ready for the meeting on the Sunday. Other than that I haven't been involved in once since although I would like to. Its not very practical for me to travel to one as I have two little children but if I was ever in a congregation and they did a quick build or renovations I would like to be involved, and involve my children, as much as possible, even if it was with catering and/or cleaning. My brother in law and his wife met at a quick builld a few years ago.

Yes, have been involved with many projects in several states as well as in Canada. Always an wonderful experience, thanks very much to Jehovah. Every single one was a great witness to the town and neighborhood, and a great reflection on our God.

I did I helped build 2 now that I found out that they are the mother of false religions can I take back the bricks that I laid?

1. The Watchtower organization has claimed to be the prophet of God1 yet it has made numerous false prophecies. The excuse given for their false prophecies has been to quote Proverbs 4:18, which says, "But the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established." Whether or not the "light gets brighter" or not, does not change the fact that the Watchtower made false prophecies. The Bible says in Deut. 18:20-22, "‘However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. And in case you should say in your heart: "How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?" When the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak..."

If the New World Translation (NWT) condemns false prophesying and states that it is proof that God is not speaking through that prophet, then doesn’t this prove that the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society is not speaking for God?

2. Why does the NWT insert the word Jehovah in the New Testament when there are absolutely no Greek manuscripts that have it in there? Isn’t this playing with the text?

3. In the book, "Salvation,"2 (a Watchtower Publication) it says, "At San Diego, California, there is a small piece of land, on which, in the year 1929, there was built a house, which is known as Beth-Sarim. The Hebrew words Beth Sarim mean "House of the Princes"; and the purpose of acquiring that property and building the house was that there might be some tangible proof that there are those on earth today who fully believe God and Christ Jesus and in His kingdom, and who believe that the faithful men of old will soon be resurrected by the Lord, be back on earth, and take charge of the visible affairs of earth. The title to Beth-Sarim is vested in the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society in trust, to be used by the president of the Society and his assistants for the present, and thereafter to be forever at the disposal of the aforementioned princes on earth [italic added]. . . . while the unbelievers have mocked concerning it and spoken contemptuously of it, yet it stands there as a testimony to Jehovah’s name; and if and when the princes do return and some of them occupy the property, such will be a confirmation of the faith and hope that induced the building of Beth-Sarim."

This place was sold in 1942 after Rutherford’s death. Therefore, it appears that the faithful were misled since the house was to "be forever at the disposal of the aforementioned princes." Is this really a testimony to Jehovah’s name as it said? How can it be if they sold the house?

4. The Watchtower organization states that Jesus died on a stake, not a cross. The typical Watchtower representation of this is with Jesus on a single vertical stake, hands over his head with a single nail in his wrists. If Jesus were crucified on a cross, then two nails would be necessary, one in each hand. How then does the Watchtower organization handle the verse in the Bible that states that Jesus had nails (plural) in his hands: "Consequently the other disciples would say to him: 'We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them: "unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the nails and stick my hand into his side, I will certainly not believe,'" (John 20:25, NWT).

Jesus had one nail in each hand. This is made clear by the use of the word ‘nails’ not ‘nail.’ Jesus must have been crucified on a cross, and not a stake as the Watchtower organization teaches. Why is it, then, that the Watchtower teaches something that is so clearly unbiblical?

5. The Watchtower organization states that through good works and sincere effort only 144,000 elite JW’s will go to heaven. The 144,000 are mentioned in two chapters in the Bible: Revelation 7 & 14. By looking at the verses it is obvious that the 144,000 are literal Jews of the ancient tribes with no Gentiles among them (7:4-8). They are all males (14:4) and virgins (14:4). If the JW states that the usage of Jewish male virgins is figurative, what gives them the right to state that number of 144,000 is literal?

6. Where does it teach in the Bible that Jesus is Michael the archangel? Why isn't Jesus called Michael right now since he is in heaven?

7. According to the Watchtower Organization, Feb. 15, 1983, p. 12, there are four requirements for salvation as taught by the Watchtower magazine. The second is relavant here: "Many have found the second requirement more difficult. It is to obey God's laws, yes, to conform one's life to the moral requirements set out in the Bible. This includes refraining from a debauched, immoral way of life. ' 1

Somebody else's Grandpa got acquainted with Somebody else's Grandma at a quickly-built Kingdom Hall site during the miserably cold and snowy December of 1992 :^)

We'd met briefly at work in 1998, but neither of us knew the other was a Witness.

I worked in the First Aid department, and she overworked herself, so she would up under our care, and I eventually walked her to her car. We were in the same congregation, but I'd only been there since June, so were weren't acquainted until then.

We got married on a miserably hot day in August, 1995. My brand new step-family was mostly grown; they were upset that we kept them away from Hot August Nights in Reno, NV, so they took me from bachelor to grandpa in 10 months by way of revenge.

Our quickly-built was scheduled during the beginning of the winter that Susanville, CA came to remember as, "Hel Niño".

4 feet of snow melted in time for our quickly-built weekend to proceed, but just in time for that weekend, a deep cold snap set in. Brothers had to thaw boards with blow torches before they could drive nails into them, or they would crack.

There had been plans to barbecue for just about every meal, but after only one meal, we learned better. You just can't cook meat done on a barbecue, when the top side of a piece of meat freezes as fast as the bottom side cooks!

Even before we were entirely finished, snow was flying again, and we on our way to another 4 feet of snow. Sadly, one family lost control of their car on their way back over the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento Valley afterward, and died.

From December through February, we repeatedly received 4 feet of snow. The electric power lines for our city crossed the Sierra Nevada, and each storm would take them down, and it would generally take 4 days to get power restored, frequently just in time for another 4 feet of snow to fall.