Other Central Jersey congregations are in Bridgewater, Middlesex Borough, Metuchen, Edison, Franklin, New Brunswick, Dunellen, Plainfield, Woodbridge, East Brunswick, South Brunswick and Monroe. All baptized Witnesses are ordained ministers and share in the preaching and teaching work. in Orange County across the New Jersey state line.įollowing the model of first-century Christianity, Jehovah’s Witnesses have no clergy-laity division. The world headquarters is in Warwick, N.Y. Bible-based guidance and instructions are provided by a Governing Body made up of longtime Witnesses who currently work at the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Warwick, New York, U.S.A. More: 'Eager for hope:' Jehovah's Witnesses in NJ find more doors open after COVID hiatus ends Who are the Jehovah's Witnesses?Īccording to its website, worldwide there are 8,699,048 members in 117,960 congregations in 239 countries. Congregations receive periodic visits from traveling elders known as circuit overseers. Concrete curbing is proposed in the parking lot while the township ordinance requires granite block curbs.
The plan also calls for five façade signs, when only one is permitted. The plan proposes 59 parking spaces, about half of the 116 spaces required by township ordinance.
A place of worship is a conditionally permitted use in the PO (Professional Office) zone. The plans call for a 4,312-square-foot place of worship. The organization bought the property on the north side of Route 22 just west of County Line Road in August 2020 for $800,000. The applicant is JW Congregation Support, an organization that assists congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses to acquire, construct and remodel places of worship. READINGTON – The Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a hearing on June 15 on a proposal to build a church on Route 22 near the Branchburg border. "I knew I would definitely be shunned by friends, but I honestly didn't think my siblings would shun me because of what we'd all been through together," Ms Whitby said.Watch Video: WATCH: Jehovah's Witnesses resume door to door ministry after hiatus In 2017, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found the total social exclusion known as "shunning" made it difficult for abuse survivors to leave the organisation, was "upsetting" and "particularly devastating" for those who suffered child abuse and left because their abuser remained in the congregation. They remain cut off from their families and closest friends: those they love the most. The people who break away from the Jehovah's Witnesses like Amy Whitby and Theresa Clare pay a terrible price. Ms Flynn's firm, Shine Lawyers, is representing 10 former Jehovah's Witnesses who allege they were abused within their congregations. In a statement to Four Corners, the Jehovah's Witnesses said, "The organisation responds directly to any claim for compensation in a caring, fair and principled manner". "That continuous denial, the continuous delays certainly has a significant impact on our clients," Ms Flynn said. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARN on 13 92 76.Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.In Australia, a similar pattern is being seen. They say the organisation drags cases out until the last possible moment, then settles to avoid a courtroom examination of its practices.
Lawyers who have battled the Jehovah's Witnesses in the US and UK have told Four Corners the organisation has a global problem with both child abuse and the way it responds to victims. "We think that the Australian courts will make that same determination when they're called on to do so." Lisa Flynn is the national practice leader for Shine Lawyers.
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