Jehovah’s group to get new home in Blackburn
5:00pm Friday 25th May 2012 in News
By Lisa Woodhouse, Assistant picture editor
AROUND 200 volunteers will be helping to build the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ New Kingdom Hall in Blackburn.
The single storey building will be erected in Whalley New Road and will create a hub for the two congregations, who have to travel out of town for meetings.
The pre-fabricated building, which cost £500,000, has been funded by the sale of the old place of worship on St Peter’s Street in Blackburn and donations from the congregations over the past decade.
The drainage work for the building has begun and the foundations are due to be laid in the next fortnight.
The building is expected to be complete by late July.
Bill Boule, assistant design coordinator, said: “Skilled builders from ministries in the area will be helped by volunteers, mainly at weekends.
“There will be nearly 200 people on site during the busiest weekend. All the different tradesmen will be working together.
“The timber frame and the roof will go up in around two days. There will be people laying bricks on the outside while people are putting up plasterboard walls inside.”
The new hall will reunite the two Blackburn congregations – Breakwater and Roe Lee – which each have around 80 members.
It will include a main worship hall, two smaller teaching rooms, toilets and a kitchen area.
Bill said: “It will be brilliant. It will be the first time in about 10 years that the two groups have been under the same roof.”
The new hall will be built on the site of the former Cemetery Hotel.
Comments(22)
sen c bl
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7:10pm Fri 25 May 12
JWBillW
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7:14pm Fri 25 May 12
This was part of his apocalyptic algorithm to arrive at the date of October 6 1914 for Jesus *invisible* second coming.
He is buried under a huge freaky Masonic pyramid.
Google images-Charles Russell burial pyramid.
A conservative estimate of the deaths of Jehovahs Witnesses since the blood transfusion ban went into effect 1945 is 50,000 dead,men,women,CHILD
REN.May be as high as 150,000.
Lower figure is 50 times more than died at Jones Town kool-aid mass murder.
The Jehovah Witnesses blood transfusion ban is deadly!
juanbbien
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8:23pm Fri 25 May 12
not too old to care
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8:25pm Fri 25 May 12
Stuart Farquar
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8:41pm Fri 25 May 12
Margarett
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9:10pm Fri 25 May 12
This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR.
Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man.
Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards
Stuart Farquar
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9:31pm Fri 25 May 12
Margarett wrote:Sick in the head !!! Get some therapy
Russell was on a quest for truth. This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR. Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man. Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards
mavrick
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8:54am Sat 26 May 12
woolywords
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9:21am Sat 26 May 12
mavrick wrote:Want ice and a slice with your spirits?
Nothing like a bit of religious bigotry to get the temperature raised. I think spiritulism is the real way.
Do you know, I can't remember the last time that JW's knocked on my door, I think it was before the Mormoms queered the pitch or was it double glazing salesmen..
My memory, isn't what it used to be.
nil bye mouth
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11:44am Sat 26 May 12
jimpy0
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1:55pm Sat 26 May 12
britguy
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2:37pm Sat 26 May 12
ResLight
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3:02pm Sat 26 May 12
JWBillW wrote:Charles Taze Russell did not believe in an organization such as the Jehovah's Witnesses. Russell's view of Armageddon was that it is to chastise the people of the nations, nor to eternally destroy them as the JWs teach. Russell was not the founder of an organization that he preached against, nor was Russell was ever a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization. Joseph Rutherford formed the JW organization after Russell died. By 1928, the greater majority of the Bible Students (more than 75%) had rejected Rutherford's new religious organization.
The founder of Jehovah's Witnesses Charles T. Russell was way into the pagan and spooky pyramidology.
This was part of his apocalyptic algorithm to arrive at the date of October 6 1914 for Jesus *invisible* second coming.
He is buried under a huge freaky Masonic pyramid.
Google images-Charles Russell burial pyramid.
A conservative estimate of the deaths of Jehovahs Witnesses since the blood transfusion ban went into effect 1945 is 50,000 dead,men,women,CHILD
REN.May be as high as 150,000.
Lower figure is 50 times more than died at Jones Town kool-aid mass murder.
The Jehovah Witnesses blood transfusion ban is deadly!
Although pagans may misuse God's creations, there is nothing pagan or spooky about Russell's Biblical study of God's Witness in Egypt.
Charles Taze Russell believed that Jesus had returned in 1874; he was not expecting Christ to return in 1914.
Charles Taze Russell is not buried under a huge Masonic pyramid. Rutherford's pyramid monument was built several years after Russell died. No one is buried in or under that monument, nor is that monument a "Masonic pyramid." There is nothing in Russell's writings or his will about building such a monument.
Much of what one may find through Google about Charles Taze Russell is a lot of false information presented as though fact, but actually based on imagination, misrepresentations and assumptions.
Charles Taze Russell never said anything about forbidding blood transfusions.
Use Google to find my site: Focus on Charles Taze Russell - Subdomain of Restoration Light Bible Study Services (Reslight)
ResLight
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3:27pm Sat 26 May 12
Margarett wrote:Although these comments are very clear, it appears to be saying that the Bible Students were expecting Christ's arrival in 1914? If by "arrival" one means the beginning of Christ's parousia, I don't know of any of the Bible Students who were expecting Christ's parousia to begin in 1914. One of the things that Russell was expecting was warfare either in 1914 or soon thereafter; he was expecting God's kingdom to be established in Jerusalem and that it would soon spread out all over the world. Yes, much (not all) of what he was expecting is gradually taking place, and is taking a lot longer than he expected.
Russell was on a quest for truth.
This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR.
Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man.
Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards
However, the JW leadership has rejected most of what Russell taught about 1914, retaining only the "seven times" prophecy of Daniel 4, although their explanations of what happened in 1914 are different from what Russell taught.
In 1938, Rutherford introduced the idea that all outside of his organization would be eternally destroyed in Armageddon, almost the opposite of what Russell taught about Armageddon.
Russell, however, never spoke for an organization such as the Jehovah's Witnesses; his conclusions were his own, and he did not assume authority over his fellow servants so as to try to force everyone to accept his conclusions, as did Joseph Rutherford.
ResLight
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3:34pm Sat 26 May 12
ResLight wrote:I stated: "Although these comments are very clear." I meant to say "Although these comments are NOT very clear."
Margarett wrote:Although these comments are very clear, it appears to be saying that the Bible Students were expecting Christ's arrival in 1914? If by "arrival" one means the beginning of Christ's parousia, I don't know of any of the Bible Students who were expecting Christ's parousia to begin in 1914. One of the things that Russell was expecting was warfare either in 1914 or soon thereafter; he was expecting God's kingdom to be established in Jerusalem and that it would soon spread out all over the world. Yes, much (not all) of what he was expecting is gradually taking place, and is taking a lot longer than he expected.
Russell was on a quest for truth.
This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR.
Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man.
Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards
However, the JW leadership has rejected most of what Russell taught about 1914, retaining only the "seven times" prophecy of Daniel 4, although their explanations of what happened in 1914 are different from what Russell taught.
In 1938, Rutherford introduced the idea that all outside of his organization would be eternally destroyed in Armageddon, almost the opposite of what Russell taught about Armageddon.
Russell, however, never spoke for an organization such as the Jehovah's Witnesses; his conclusions were his own, and he did not assume authority over his fellow servants so as to try to force everyone to accept his conclusions, as did Joseph Rutherford.
Daniel7
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11:42pm Sat 26 May 12
JWBillW wrote:BillW Through closer Bible study we found those teaching to be in error, So now we no longer believe them. The Oct. 6 1914 date is accurate though. His presence is different than his coming. If his presence were to be visible why did his disciples ask him for a sign? How many “children” have died in the nationalistic wars of this century? A lot more than 50,000. No one seems to have a problem with that.
The founder of Jehovah's Witnesses Charles T. Russell was way into the pagan and spooky pyramidology.
This was part of his apocalyptic algorithm to arrive at the date of October 6 1914 for Jesus *invisible* second coming.
He is buried under a huge freaky Masonic pyramid.
Google images-Charles Russell burial pyramid.
A conservative estimate of the deaths of Jehovahs Witnesses since the blood transfusion ban went into effect 1945 is 50,000 dead,men,women,CHILD
REN.May be as high as 150,000.
Lower figure is 50 times more than died at Jones Town kool-aid mass murder.
The Jehovah Witnesses blood transfusion ban is deadly!
lmhjones
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10:35pm Sun 27 May 12
Margarett wrote:i have.. now a born again atheist
Russell was on a quest for truth.
This was blessed. In 1914 he and the bible students hit the year, season (autumn, due to calculating from the autumn of 607 BCE) and the event. (the invisible first horseman, Jesus Arrival, ... and the second horseman, WAR.
Things are unfolding more slowly than thought, but exactly as thought. The 1914 prophecy will commence before earth succumbs to man.
Judge the integrity of a tree by its leaves. Examine the pages of our publications. Regards
ladysal
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3:18pm Mon 28 May 12
Daniel7 wrote:What planet are you on? Everyone has a problem with the death of children in "nationalistic wars". To compare that to refusing a simple treatment which can save lives just shows how truly deluded you are.
JWBillW wrote: The founder of Jehovah's Witnesses Charles T. Russell was way into the pagan and spooky pyramidology. This was part of his apocalyptic algorithm to arrive at the date of October 6 1914 for Jesus *invisible* second coming. He is buried under a huge freaky Masonic pyramid. Google images-Charles Russell burial pyramid. A conservative estimate of the deaths of Jehovahs Witnesses since the blood transfusion ban went into effect 1945 is 50,000 dead,men,women,CHILD REN.May be as high as 150,000. Lower figure is 50 times more than died at Jones Town kool-aid mass murder. The Jehovah Witnesses blood transfusion ban is deadly!BillW Through closer Bible study we found those teaching to be in error, So now we no longer believe them. The Oct. 6 1914 date is accurate though. His presence is different than his coming. If his presence were to be visible why did his disciples ask him for a sign? How many “children” have died in the nationalistic wars of this century? A lot more than 50,000. No one seems to have a problem with that.
I have a loving God who wants peace and believes that we should all do EVERYTHING we can to help other, including using the skills he has provided us with and the intelligence he gave us to make life better through learning about what we have around us and increasing our knowledge and expertise.
Don't turn despicable decisions made by dictators / lunatics into a justification for forcing an inhumane and totally un-necessary death on too many people.
Daniel7
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11:36pm Mon 28 May 12
Pattty98
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7:53am Tue 29 May 12
Daniel7 wrote:This 'life is cheap' comment does NOT express the views of Jehovah's Witnesses.It is the 'unique take' of Steven Klemetti apostate.
I think the question is "What planet are you from?" No one has a problem with children of all ages dying in wars, or else it would have ended thousands of years ago. Yet despicable dictators both religious and political keep butchering people and wars are fought to get rid of them, but they never finish the job. We live in world that glorifies war. (Because of this world's god. 2 Cor 4:4) Yes there are things difficult to accept like the blood issue. (Gen. 9:4; Deut. 12:23; Acts 21:25 What Job said applies, "Do we merely accept what is good from Jehovah?"
ladysal
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8:38am Tue 29 May 12
Daniel7 wrote:Go on then, how? Your first comment and this one are remarkably simplistic and narrow minded (should I be surprised?)
I think the question is "What planet are you from?" No one has a problem with children of all ages dying in wars, or else it would have ended thousands of years ago. Yet despicable dictators both religious and political keep butchering people and wars are fought to get rid of them, but they never finish the job. We live in world that glorifies war. (Because of this world's god. 2 Cor 4:4) Yes there are things difficult to accept like the blood issue. (Gen. 9:4; Deut. 12:23; Acts 21:25 What Job said applies, "Do we merely accept what is good from Jehovah?"
Hands up everyone who has a problem with children dying in wars? I'm guessing that around 90% of the world's population put their hands up. Now, go on, do something about it. Not that simple? You do surprise me.....

MARCO says...
5:14pm Fri 25 May 12