Lenox marriages

[lalalu (lalalu)]

At one point in TBS history in Lenox, there were a lot of marriages. Everytime you turned around, someone was getting engaged and someone was getting married. It was a flurry of activity and kinda surprising because it seemed few people dated...just all of a sudden so and so would be a couple and would be getting married. It was rumored CHS was playing matchmaker.

I often wondered exactly HOW he accomplished this. Did he put a bug in some guy's ear in the car on the road to Framingham? Did a girl happen to cross the street in front of the car at an inopportune moment and CHS said, that's the girl for you? Was the guy called up to his office for a private meeting? Was it done in a joking manner or in all seriousness? Did it always start with the guy? Did it appear random?

And what happened if the guy/girl disagreed with CHS recommendation? What happened then? Did the guy tell the girl beforehand...word came down from CHS, or did he take her out on a date to see how things went first?

I'm curious. It was a real phenomenon at the time. Can anybody share some of your experiences?

[bob_brinton (bob_brinton)]

I didn't ask Carl who to marry. I didn't ask him if I should. I asked him who I should see about getting married. He seemed surprised. He didn't stop us. We're still married, since April of 1977. But then I wasn't one of those young guys that was always dogging his steps and going to all the raps. I wasn't after 'the greatest job in America'. And Scott Robinson's little sessions with engaged couples had not yet started.

[mrsdrysdale (mrsdrysdale)]

I remember all those weddings! All those bridemaids! You went and just couldn't wait to hear what words CHS would say as vows.

I was engaged but decided to leave Lenox instead of getting married. It was very hard to break up but I knew it was time for me to leave.

[ariel (ariel)]

Mrsdrysdale
Just hold on a greater grace minute !!!
Did I hear you say...
"I was engaged but decided to leave Lenox instead of getting married. It was very hard to break up but I knew it was time for me to leave."

First you left the 'geographical call of God to start with, , second, forsook the covering of your 'pastah teechah', and third rejected 'Gods divine design' for your life........hmmm....
three for three....not bad! http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/wink.gif

[simplemind (simplemind)]

Lalalu,

It is OK, that everybody have something hurting to say here, but what you started with this post is totally bad. Please don't be crazy to come up with such funny gosip statements.
I can make up 100 of this gosips, even dirtier. So please moderate yourself.

Simplemind

[arguendo (arguendo)]

Simplemind,

There nothing wrong about being curious as to something that occurred while one was in GGWO and articulating it. I'm not sure where you're coming from, but you seem to think its all right to tell people what they can and cannot say.

If what Lalalu suggested is false, then expose it and support your opinion. If you don't know, then I suggest you ignore it, because Lalalu has a right to say anything she likes.

IMO, it is a very reasonable question. Part of the problems of GGWO is inappropriate involvement in people's personal lives to the extent of portraying some sort of mystical knowledge regarding people's destinies.

(Message edited by arguendo on June 13, 2005)

[offshore (offshore)]

I know lots of people that were in TBS/GGWO who got together and started dating because Stevens “Put in a good word " for them. As a matter of fact, another one of his secretaries and I made up this Song.
We jokingly sang it to the tune of the “Aqua Velva” TV commercial, or “Hey Big Spender.

"With apostolic dating, our romance began …
Cuz there’s nothing like a……. Bible Speakin Man”

Her marriage ended a few years after it began.
I wonder how many marriages survived.

[mrsdrysdale (mrsdrysdale)]

ariel...lol....I think I remember being told I was living outside of God's will for life.....and ummm......stopped going to church for awhile....and ummmmmmm......then I met my divine design!!http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/smile.gif..and we are still marrried going on 20 yrs.

[mrsdrysdale (mrsdrysdale)]

Remember(TBS)when one of the pastors said in class that he wanted to see dates and he didn't mean on a calendar.....gosh....we all had dates that weekend!http://www.factnet.org/discus/clipart/proud.gif

[whitehorses (whitehorses)]

i didnt lol
i never had a date the whole time.

[boss_martian (boss_martian)]

I personally know someone who got engaged in GGWO after knowing her "fiance" for 33 days. It was "blessed" by Carl and other pastors as "divine design". She had just turned 18 (got saved through GGWO at 17) and her fiance was in his mid 30s.

CARLELULIA!!!!!!

[offshore (offshore)]

My husband asked me to marry him 3 days after our first date.
Saying "YES" was the greatest decision of my lifetime. That was 25 years ago.

He had his 5 minute pre-marriage counciling appointment with Carl in his office. Of course, Stevens was in the bathroom, as my future husband had to talk over the noise, and through a closed door.

Stevens, "Do you love her?"
Anovus, "Ah, Yes, I certainly think so."
Stevens, "Well, sounds good to me!"

Six months later I asked my maid of honor, the brunette, to tell Stevens that we didn't want the personal vowes, and I didn't want him to yell and scream during the message.
(I just didn't want to give my family any more indications that the place was a Cult.)
She later told me he was very offended and angry about that request.

Did you ever notice that everything always had to be about him?

[louise_connolly (louise_connolly)]

Whithorses:

Be grateful to not have had a date while under the influence of 'Carl and his cult'. I know I am.