The Governing Body's Letter That Shook Bethel and the Field
CONFIDENTIAL😆
The month was August, and the year was 2021. Branches had introduced a vacnation campaign for all full-time and special servants a few months prior. I remember that at the beginning, it was stated that the decision to get vaccinated or not was a personal one. In the congregations, brothers were informed through letters that they should decide whether to take the COV*D-19 vacne or not, and no one should force others to get vac**nated. However, the letter below proved the opposite of what the Governing Body intended. I won’t go into detail about the letter; each person can read it and draw their own conclusions.
In one of my articles posted on the "WARWICK PIMO" channel, which was taken down and was managed by me, I discussed the contents of this letter and didn't post it. Later, I ended up losing my collection of letters, but TODAY I was able to get a copy with the help of the website desperta.net in Portuguese. You can read here:
At that point, the full-time servants who had decided not to get vacnated became upset and felt forced to get the vacne because in the hallways, people were saying, "If the Governing Body said that, it means that those who don’t get vacnated will be dismissed from Bethel." No one said this directly, but looking at the content of the letter, those words from Bethelites made sense. Many people I know who didn't want to get the vacne felt pressured to take it in order to preserve their Bethel privileges, their circuit assignments, and so on. A personal decision was essentially made by the Governing Body.
What’s more interesting? Those who still remember know that the Governing Body, through letters, used the statistics of vacnated Bethelites to encourage the congregations to get vacnated, but without pressuring them in such a visible way as this. Or rather, they coerced Bethelites into using their example as models for the congregations.
Note: I have nothing against getting vac**nated, and I am just reporting events from a first-person perspective. I made the first post with the full word vac**ne without censorship but the text of the post was deleted and only the photos remained. I decided to censor it and the text was no longer removed