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@Jack Ryan Your post is already in this large subforum for JW related stuff. Thx.
https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/forum/3-jehovahs-witnesses/
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Are you a chef? Share some ideas with the rest of us here:
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Graduation 2018 - Exceptional grad: Alex Garcia cooks things up
The Herald (Everett, Washington State, US), Sunday, June 3, 2018
The Everett teen hopes to turn cooking into a fulfilling career.
“I donÂ’t know of any chef who doesnÂ’t want to be well known,” he said.
For the past two years, Garcia, 17, has been part of Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center’s Culinary Arts program. Until coming to Sno-Isle, he had spent his entire academic life with Edmonds Heights K-12. A home-schooling partnership with the Edmonds School District, the program helps parents — their children’s main teachers — with support and resources.
At his graduation Friday, Garcia received his diploma from Edmonds Heights K-12, which offers some classes and has a library and computer labs.
After graduation, he hopes to land an apprenticeship or internship in the culinary field, or work in catering. “I have gotten a few offers,” he said.
The son of Joy and Edgar Garcia, he is part of a Jehovah’s Witnesses church in Everett. “We teach lots of people about the Bible,” Garcia said of the door-to-door ministry he does with his family.
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Bogotá prepare for their regional assembly
2 Jun 2018
National Newsletter
This Friday the event begins and will take place over the next ten weekends. They hope that the more than 50,000 believers who belong to the congregations of the capital will attend the meeting. Two of its spokespersons talk about religion and the assembly.
Jehovah's Witnesses in Bogotá prepare for their regional assembly
Rául BenÃtez and Humberto Zorrilla only have to look at the eastern hills of Bogotá to believe that God does exist, or Jehovah, as they call him. "In our genetic code, in the smallest particle of our being is the presence of it," agree the two spokesmen for Jehovah's Witnesses.
Both came to religion at different times and by choice. There was no pressure. Just a desire to discover what Catholicism didn't convince them. They themselves were the ones who approached other people to investigate, read and listen to the spiritual answers they were looking for.
The answer came to Humberto when he was only 14 years old. His brother, a confessed witness, never influenced him to look at magazines like The Watchtower, which he left at home. "I read the publications and started asking him questions. He explained to me with the Bible. I thought it was very nice and reasonable," says Zorrilla.
Jehovah's Witnesses have a great mastery of their holy book. For any situation, they have a verse that exemplifies, teaches or makes you think. They are very convincing with the word, do not hesitate, and do not make unnecessarily prolonged silences. This is one of his forms of propaganda, as well as his personal presentation, always impeccable and impeccable.
This aspect of Christianity, unlike Catholicism, does not believe in the Trinity, nor that Jesus is God. In 1881, in the United States, it was established as a religion thanks to the Students of the Bible, a Christian movement that sought the restoration of doctrine. After its consolidation as a legal entity under the name of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania in 1884, publications for educational purposes began to be published.
These publications, mainly The Watchtower and Awake! which have grown over the years, plus audiobooks and the online television channel, with special programs for children, youth and families, translated into more than 700 languages, dialects, and sign language, make this creed a religion accessible to everyone.
Through these publications and the books of Daniel and Revelation, published by witnesses, Raúl BenÃtez also became interested in this aspect of Christianity.
Since he was a child, BenÃtez had already been close to the witnesses, but at that time he did not feel the need for spiritual answers that did arise when he was 25, after working as a journalist at RCN, Todelar, and Radionet.
"I made the decision to withdraw from the profession, a little tired and bored of almost reporting the same thing: scandals and corruption. That looks like it's never gonna end. I covered the sources of politics, economics, and conflict," says Benitez.
He doesn't regret his decision. The Bible became her main source of information, telling her how to act as a believer, husband, father and human being. His current work has nothing to do with journalism. He is dedicated to business and tourism transportation, and in his spare time to preach and help his congregation in communication matters.
Both what Raúl and Humberto Zorrilla do on behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses is voluntary, as is all the work involved in the management and operation of this religion. That is to say, neither translators, publication writers, preachers, illustrators, layout designers charge for what they do.
Religion is financed by voluntary donations from witnesses and people who promote biblical education through the door-to-door tours that their believers make every day along with the publications they give away. They do not charge tithes or alms, because they are based on what Jesus says. "He said,'You got free, you got den free,'" Zorilla says.
Among their other free activities are literacy and assembly, which anyone can attend. These assemblies are held simultaneously and with the same themes and schemes in the countries that are present, which are in total 240, including the non-self-governing territories.
This Friday begins the regional meeting, in which BenÃtez and Zorrilla work on its management. It will consist of ten consecutive weekends, from Friday to Sunday, to cover the total population of witnesses in Bogotá, which is more than 50,000.
As soon as this day is over, they will offer a special event in sign language and another in English for foreign witnesses residing in Bogotá.
The meetings will be held in Cota, Cundinamarca, in one of the headquarters of the witnesses in the department. Faithful to their beliefs, the event will be free of charge and will deal with conflict resolution issues based on Christian principles, those same principles by which the more than eight million witnesses on the worlds come out every day to practice and preach.
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19 minutes ago, Nicole said:
If she asked you for the favor go ahead right now, don't take long
She didn't ask me for the favor but I am sure many would like to help out with a $1 if they knew how. If I set it up... I wouldn't know where or how to send the money to her.
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Hard to believe that he will probably get it.....
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Will someone that knows Christine personally please set up a GoFundMe page for her and then place a link to it below? Thank you in advance
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SCC rules courts have limited power to review fairness of decisions of voluntary associations
The elders' decision required Jehovah's Witnesses, including Wall's wife and children, to shun him. As a real estate agent, his potential income was ...Jehovah's Witnesses win right at top court to shun a church memberRandy Wall of Calgary has lost his case at the Supreme Court of Canada against his own church – the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's ...Jehovah's Witness expelled from Calgary congregation can't take his case to a judge: Supreme Court - Toronto StarHighwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (Judicial Committee) v. WallBetween: Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. (Vaughn Lee — Chairman and Elders James Scott Lang and ...Courts have no jurisdiction on private religious matters, Supreme Court rulesThe decision involving the case of a man who was expelled from his Jehovah's Witness congregation is being hailed as a victory for religious freedom ... -
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says a Jehovah's Witness who was expelled from his Calgary congregation cannot take his case to a judge.
In a decision today, the high court says the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench has no jurisdiction to review the congregation's decision to shun Randy Wall over alleged drunkenness and verbal abuse.
Several religious organizations took an active interest in the case, given questions about the degree to which the courts can review such decisions by faith-based bodies.
Wall, an independent realtor, was summoned in 2014 to appear before the judicial committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, a four-person panel of elders.
He admitted to two episodes of drunkenness and, on one of those occasions, verbally abusing his wife -- wrongdoing he attributed to family stress over the earlier expulsion of his 15-year old daughter from the congregation.
The judicial committee told Wall that he, too, would be expelled because he was not sufficiently repentant.
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The estate of deceased music legend Michael Jackson has filed a lawsuit against ABC and Disney over the special “The Last Days of Michael Jackson.”
The suit, filed in federal court in California on Wednesday, alleges copyright infringement.
The suit says that the plaintiffs — identified as “various companies that comprise a part of the Estate of Michael Jackson –were “genuinely shocked” when they watched the special on March 24.
Also Read:Â Michael Jackson Estate Calls ABC News Special 'Another Crass and Unauthorized Attempt to Exploit' His Legacy
Calling the special “a mediocre look back at Michael Jackson’s life and entertainment career,” the suit accuses Disney of swiping the estate’s intellectual property.
“Unable to make a compelling presentation about Michael Jackson on its own, Disney decided to exploit the Jackson Estate’s intellectual property without permission or obtaining a license for its use. After all, there is always a healthy audience for Michael Jackson’s timeless music, his ground-breaking videos, and footage of his unforgettable live performances. Why not just use Michael Jackson’s works if one can get advertisers to buy time on the program? But in order to use these valuable assets, a license must be obtained for it by the Estate,” the suit reads.
The suit continues, “Like Disney, the lifeblood of the Estate’s business is its intellectual property. Yet for some reason, Disney decided it could just use the Estate’s most valuable intellectual property for free. Apparently, Disney’s passion for the copyright laws disappears when it doesn’t involve its own intellectual property and it sees an opportunity to profit off of someone else’s intellectual property without permission or payment. The extent of Disney’s use of the Estate’s intellectual property in The Last Days of Michael Jackson is truly astounding.”
Among the allegedly infringed-on property: substantial portions of Jackson hits including “Billy Jean,” Beat It” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” as well as extensive parts of Jackson music videos including “Thriller” and “Black or White.”
According to the suit, Jackson’s estate reached out regarding the Jackson material, and was told by a Disney attorney that the material fell under “fair use” because the program was a documentary, a stance that the suit calls “patently absurd”: “Even setting aside Disney’s blatant hypocrisy given its notorious history regarding third party uses of its own copyrights, Disney’s argument here is one that would probably make even the founders of Napster pause.”
Prior to the airing of the special, the Estate publicly, calling it “another crass and unauthorized attempt to exploit the life, music and image of Michael Jackson without respect for Michael’s legacy, intellectual property rights or his children.”
The estate also noted that “ABC intends to use music and other intellectual property owned by the Estate such as photos, logos, artwork, and more in the program itself, without having licensed the rights to any such material.”
However, a spokesperson for the ABC News denied that the contents of the special infringe on their rights.
“ABC News’ documentary explores the life, career and legacy of Michael Jackson, who remains of great interest to people worldwide. The program does not infringe on his estate’s rights, but as a courtesy, we removed a specific image from the promotional material.”
An ABC News spokesperson reiterated that stance when contacted by TheWrap for comment on WednesdayÂ’s lawsuit. :
“We have not yet had an opportunity to review the complaint,” the spokesperson said. “The ABC News’ documentary explored the life, career and legacy of Michael Jackson, who remains of great interest to people worldwide, and did not infringe on his estate’s rights.”
https://www.thewrap.com/michael-jacksons-estate-sues-disney-abc-over-the-last-days-special/
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Die ersten Christen predigten eifrig und machten Jünger aus Menschen aller Nationen. Die Apostelgeschichte kann unseren Eifer und die Begeisterung für den Predigtdienst vergrößern.
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Ce numéro contient les articles d’étude pour la période du 29 octobre au 2 décembre 2018.
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Jehovah's Witnesses WorldWide Budgeting Meeting 2016-2020
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ONLY $25 million in contingency funds for a global corporation? That seems staggeringly low for what I would have imagined.
One lawsuit alone in California wiped that all away.