2016-09-21 BOE Re: Global Assistance Arrangement for the 2017 Service Year

[Jack Ryan]

2016-09-21 BOE Re: Global Assistance Arrangement for the 2017 Service Year

PS to bodies of elders:

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This postscript should not be read to the congregation, and this letter should not be placed on the noticeboard. However, a copy of this letter and postscript should be given to your accounts servant.

Financial Transparency, No Clergy Class

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Finally, please note as a separate matter that this year we will not be requesting any contribution for the Traveling Overseer’s Assistance Arrangement.

upps - not in harmony with this never ending "mantra":

*** w15 9/1 p. 6 How Is Our Ministry Financed? ***
Each year, we print and distribute hundreds of millions of Bibles and pieces of Bible literature. We build and operate branch offices and printeries around the world. Tens of thousands of congregations meet in modest yet attractive places of worship called Kingdom Halls. Who pays for all of this?
Our work is supported entirely by voluntary donations. (2 Corinthians 9:7)