5th generation Jehovah's Witness shares her story. Meet Eva #exjw #exjehovahswitness #exjwsthink

[Music] welcome Eva to my channel uh Eva has been out of the organization for around 20 years and I have yet to hear her story so um and I know that you were recently on another YouTube channel sharing your story and I'm excited to have you on right now so Eva without further Ado how did the Jehovah's Witnesses come into your family and what was your story like as a Jehovah's Witness okay well first I want to thank you so very much for having me I really appreciate it I know it we had to re-schedule this a few times so I appreciate you sticking there with me of course so um I am actually a fifth generation Jehovah's Witness um I was born in Germany my family is from Germany um the my great great great grandmother all these are women on my on my maternal side um got the message when Russell was there in the 1920s so um I would not say they would not like the Jehovah Witnesses today where you know it was so micromanaged back then they were much they were more relaxed about the back donation so um but anyways um it carried through my mother was a Jehovah's Witness when I was five months old we moved from Germany Hamburg Germany to um America um I grew up in Upstate New York and um we grounded on a um wonderful little town in New York along Lake Ontario in uh Apple Country and I actually had a really good childhood and even with the at first my mother because she couldn't speak any English was not in um communication with Jehovah's Witnesses but then somebody knocked down her door and then it just you know restart it so um my father was not a Jehovah's Witness but um he pretty he believed everything that my mother you know talked about and um he did feel bad that we didn't celebrate Christmas and birthdays and stuff like that but he you know he understood it was really important to my mother and it was since we had seven girls and one boy eventually he really appreciated that it kept you know pretty much he liked the raising the Jehovah Witness way of raising people of their children um so congregation wise um we were very very fortunate during those times um that we had great um a great congregation lots of children lots of people my age lots of Association lots of um going and doing things swim parties you know picnics um ice skating roller skating bowling you know we we always did a lot of things um my issue came when I was about um I think about 10 and we were studying I think the Revelation book again and um well it started with the paradise book and the pictures in there and then um when we were I forgot exactly but I just know that every time I saw those pictures I didn't like it I didn't like the violence I didn't like how you were supposed to be loving and yet um because you did not believe as Jehovah's Witnesses believe what just came about you know in the early 1900s or whatever it was and um you would die that didn't that did not connect with me at all I did not find um that palpable I I couldn't swallow that um and also because I had friends in school um and neighbor friends and relative friends that um I really liked and you know associated with and at that time my mother would let me go and um visit somebody at their house for a few hours and you know play you know and then um come back home we did we weren't like it wasn't so strict that you couldn't associate and so what I found was these Jehovah's Witnesses and um we did talk a little bit about how um the singing is the worst Jehovah Witnesses better than the best the worst I mean the best worldly person I didn't like worldly person to me worldly person was like a racist kind of comment and um it I didn't see that as worldly you know it's um I I didn't like that and then all the doctrines I know I was never supposed to graduate um I was supposed to I I graduated in 1976 1975. you know was the it was yand it was going to be the end and I wanted to um I wanted to quit school but my brother-in-law taught my parents and did not letting me so so I didn't quit school um but College was not um gonna be you know in my cards um so there was that was one thing that was strict about you know um because even though we did do a lot of fun things we all so um it was very strictly about um going out in service pioneering during the Summers um all that was pretty much um written in stone so about um in my later teens um as I um got ready to graduate I was like I I can't do this so even before I graduated I um was working for welfare cleaning homes and my father would pick me up on his way home from work in the city and I saved money to get a car and I sued and I partnered with a couple of other um Jehovah Witness girls that were also you know on the fence well they also did were in the same situation I was um and we got a apartment together and I moved out shortly after um graduation yeah so very shortly and I remember my mom being so sad and um but she didn't you know forbid me too so you know and I was the kind of person that was um very strong-minded um you really if I felt some way I was gonna tell it you know and um even if it was under my breath I wasn't confrontational at all but I was just a strong you know a strong person I I knew that I couldn't um live that way so I didn't but and I didn't realize how much everything affected of me until I started dating and I realized after the fact not not while I was dating that I didn't know what to look for in a in a partner I I had no idea and the people I picked were as bad as the elders telling you hey your address is too low you're you know you're and I'm what I mean so embarrassing um and and it was a dress I made myself because we at that point made all of our own clothes with eight kids you know if you get you got to do stuff like that and um it was just little things like that and it was just one after another just always picking at stuff and um so I um dated and it got into relationships none of them were the fruitful none of I mean none of they weren't um it was too much dating and not enough you know knowing what kind of person that I was looking for and um I got married uh when I was 25 and that didn't even last very long and um it was a very violent situation and but I had my oldest son who was amazing and um he's 40. and uh he was you know you say I don't regret it because he's worse everything I went through and um then it was I went from one situation right into another situation I I still did not know what to look for and um I didn't realize until after my second marriage and again I'm not sorry about that because I have a wonderful second Son who's 35 but I didn't realize until after that second son I um or the second divorce I'm sorry um someone at work said why don't you go to this divorce recovery class at this church and I'm like a church you know I really wasn't going I was fading at that point um and during the years that I was there I would be wholeheartedly into it you know doing Parts at assemblies pioneering while I was working full-time you know I would give it my all and you're always never good enough never so when I went to this divorce recovery class I had to think about it for a while um and in fact I missed the first one so I um had to think about it too long I guess I um started going and I learned so much and the one takeaway um was that you know the worst thing for people to do is go into a rebound and then um marry the next person because they're lonely because they want to partner because they they like married life um but then they pick the wrong person um so they said and this has always stuck with me for every year you have been married you need to take you know for every five years you've been married you need to take a year to recover so I was like okay I'm not gonna marry anybody for five years and the funny thing is not even thinking about that that's when I met my present husband and he is a wonderful man it's just a very humble and smart and very um attentive just a really great guy and with lots of friends because I said if you don't have friends there's something wrong with you so um that's where I am today um I had um back to when I was in high school knowing that I wasn't going to um go to college I took business courses and I started off doing jobs um because I knew I wasn't going to be a house cleaner forever that wasn't going to work um I started off like a payroll Clerk and then you know an inventory Clerk and then I went to night school and took accounting and financing and then went on to become a um controller and an accountant um and it really was probably the best thing for me I always every time I left a job I left for another job where I was making more money and that was you know better for me a better position I you know never quit a job before I had a job um unless it was something that you know was out of my control at that point um so having all those um things you know for me helped helped a lot um but like I say even though I had it's I always say I have a lot of friends I had a lot of friends and Jehovah Witnesses but they're not your friends because your friends love you whether whatever goes on you know so I have a lot of friends now I have you know friends that care for me don't care if I say or do something they don't like they're still there you know they're not gonna shun me they're not gonna We're not gonna walk down the street and they ignore me you know um which has happened a lot because you know at times I still lived in the area where I um left the the truth oh see oh we talked about the appendage and those little triggers that come up when I left the religion I am so curious um you've been out for such a long time and it's funny too because I I kind of like in in my head I'll like hear it before I actually will I'll catch myself but it is something that was like so ingrained in us to even say that when you are fading in the late 90s early 2000s was there a reason you were fading was there how did you feel when you were like waking up like what was the situation like for you if you can go back to that time sure okay so one of my um my friend one of my workmates turned out to be a Jehovah's Witness when I lived in um Tampa Florida and she contacted me one day because somebody also told her that I was a witness this was uh shortly after high school wasn't that long after high school um before I got married the first time um she had contacted me and said hey sister and I was like oh I'm busted somehow [Laughter] so we moved in together and we are still friends we have been friends all these years and um Tammy and I lived together I followed her to Georgia when she got married um she had um woke up before me and I was still pretty much immersed in um we were even I even moved to the same street as she did um when she was married that's how close we were and um when she left and she lived down the road from me um I shunned her and that was um oh I hate I look back that that just hurts my heart to you know to know I was like that um so I she would say things once in a while if we came across each other um didn't really push it um we ran into each other somewhere and I don't know remember why or maybe it was because I'm trying to think um she knew that I was I was having you know talking about having doubts because I had gone back in when my son um my second son was born um because I was kind of faded until that time um because I wanted my son my two boys to have my family around and you know if I wasn't going to the hall I couldn't have him around because they would ask oh so what did you think about this assembly and you know so who's in your hall and um so you can't go to the hall with them and and pretend you've been there before because you couldn't get busted so he had um my sister had come to visit me and she had talked my oldest son into how great you know Jehovah's Witnesses were and my oldest son was very into it and so I didn't want to let him down if he felt that that was something he wanted to do so that's when I got back in and that's when I got back in stronger um even though I still have the doubts I still you know in the back of my mind I was like you know this is I was an agnostic you know at that point um and then if years go by and um Tammy and I used would talk more and more and more and um we would um you know meet for lunch or um I'd go visit her and after she got her divorce because she went through a very hard time and and we um talked more and more and I opened up about you know she knew that I didn't believe you know in the first place um and she gave me the crisis of conscience pamphlet I every time I say that I get goosebumps it's weird I think this at one point I'm gonna stop that stop getting the Goosebumps but I don't because it's such a marvelous book so much information it is the gem of the century for upon States apostates um Ed was only in that for like two pages or three pages or I was like yeah this is bad this is real bad so my son at that point was about 16 and he did a he was very much into pioneering very much the very um Jehovah Witness looking boy you know but the elders always picked on him and I don't know if they picked on him because he was very intelligent and they didn't like him um asking questions you know or the way he asked questions I'm not sure about that but it was like they had a a you know a something against him instead of you know trying to be there more for him they were kind of like just you know um just kept picking at him they would complain about things like his hair his hair was only like about this much you know but it's styled in the way where it went up you know that was back in the 80s no 90s that the hair looked cute as can be it was all sort you know it was just it was just too much and then he decided he was going to go to college and he was going to go get all you know start all that process well in the meantime him and a couple of his friends went to a store and goofing around you know how 16 year old boys are always goofing around like in a store I see it all the time and um he was pretending that he was going to take something well just at the moment I mean he was still in the aisle of where it was but just in the moment he did that um the security person saw him in those days it wasn't the thing that um you got to have the person leaving you know it can't be just concealment um and it wasn't fully concealment it was just partial it was just you know like the guy could tell that he was he couldn't tell he was goofing around but he could tell that he was going to take something and and it wasn't something he wanted because it was Tiger cleaner and he didn't even have his car yet so anyways I actually freaked out you know and I call the Elders right away once he calls me and I'm like what should I do because I wanted some kind of um help what do I do with my son you know how how do I manage this because I don't want him to go down a wrong path and um still think that's thinking that the elders were helpful and um they ended and these are my friends these Elders you know I had known them a long time we'd gone to each other's houses we had parties at each other's houses um um it was devastating to me once he um went and you know wrote his letter and you know talked to them and they disfellowshipped him I could not believe it because here I am sitting I'm sitting there as the mother thinking this can't be what if Jehovah knows his heart they're like saying Jehovah knows his heart and he's not repentant he was repentant he definitely was um if if Jehovah knew his heart then why couldn't Jehovah know my heart when I would just you know Skip on into another congregation and start all over again after the mess I had made out of my life you know all the things that I did I was like that is totally bogus no I wasn't gonna have it I actually fell to the floor sobbing because I've like what have I done to my son I just handed them to them for The Chopping Block you know it would have been better if I never said a word you know just a stupid mistake so a kid mistake you know nothing nothing major so um and kids have to learn too it's you know learn when things are funny and when things are not that's how you learn so anyways it was after that that um it was just fellowshipped and I would go to the elders and say I started researching everything about this fellowshipping and I was like well this is the first time he's ever been in trouble he's never been on remarked or reproached or anything and yet you're disfellowshipping it well you have to wait on Jehovah well and then I bring up another article you know from the Watchtower above biblical Aid well either you just have to wait on Jehovah and I'm thinking no I don't why would I have to wait I when you're making the decisions Jehovah's not making the decision you are so the last time I ever went to the Kingdom Hall was when I went to the brother and before I even started I had the bound volume open and I was going to show him something in the Bible he says even I want to tell you you're asking too many questions I closed it up walked to the car and never came back you asked too many questions now if you have to you can't ask questions you can't I mean and what are you so prideful you can't take another consideration of this you know it was just that was it that was it so that was but my youngest my youngest said said my youngest son said that was the best thing he ever did for us because he hated going okay so your youngest was 16 getting disfellowshipped and how old was your others the oldest son was 16. oh and my youngest son was 11. was 11 their five year difference is that that's the best thing you ever did for us what what a what a crazy Journey that has been for you um I'm sorry it look is there you are I I can't believe the fact that your your son almost stealing led him to get disfellowship this story is like insane it blows my mind the fact that he was like this exemplary kid even worse to me was that the um ministerial servant who lived across from the street from us um had been having affairs and we had our book study there and they didn't disfellowship him see that just like blew my mind I just couldn't comprehend and I'd like justice oh my gosh oh wow and then the fact that you said your son was like so happy that it was the best thing he's ever done for you and then you never went back to the to the meeting so I take it you started building your life after that yes I did I started you know because of me always having a I actually was a workaholic you know because I um one of the things is that you um you you grow to feel like you have to fill every moment you know because it's either with something you have got to have everything planned out all the time of what you're going to do there's no rest time because rest time is gonna let you think so um side note that's why so many people from the covet are coming out now because they had time to think so and he expected the story um oh now I lost my train of thought we were talking very much about your um the time after your son got disfellowshipped and you were saying that the the guy that you're going to the Bible study with or book study with he was having um all these Affairs and he was still not getting this Fellowship yeah and that just you know that just upset me so much um so that was my confirmation um but the hard thing and then right after that um it wasn't too long after that I I wrote my letter to my family and um I told him you know because they are very every single one of them is there's elders and uh missionaries and I mean they're hardcore um in the religion and um so I knew I couldn't hide it I mean I might have waited a little longer if I knew how drastic it was going to be um but I wrote the letter I didn't write it to an elder um or the congregation I wrote it to my family and then um overnighted a copy to each of my siblings and my parents um that I could not um pin down that they had come to visit and my son was walking up our the stairs and the family would be walking down the stairs or vice versa and they would totally ignore him they had known him since he was a baby I mean just he spent time at their homes they spent time with us I just I was like this is just crazy I can't I my heart broke for him I could not uh I just felt so bad for him so um they then um after I wrote this letter saying that this is not how Jesus acted I do not want to follow men who tell us what to do this is not a Jehovah's organization this is a governing bodies organization I said it nicer you know um and I went on and on as I said don't even try to change my mind because I'm not going to change my mind um I am I do not believe in their um their uh indoctrination of um Armageddon coming and all the different dates and how they can read people's hearts and I don't believe in any of that I don't believe in any of the uh indoctrinational points so that's when I just started um working more you know just kind of to fill that and plus uh shortly after that my son went off to college and uh his college was like four hours away so I would go you know every month or so to go visit him and uh see how he's doing me and my uh son sometimes my husband at the time um usually it was just us three and um after he graduated he had moved on to um he moved on to you know he stayed in Atlanta for a little while and then he moved over to Phoenix and that's where he's been since and um with Vince I have a eight-year-old grandson ocean who's light of my life and my second son moved to Phoenix and then with uh to be with his brother and then move to [Music] um Oregon and where I have a granddaughter the second light of my life both the equal lights you know both equal headlights um and I would not have had that this wonderful relationship with them if I had shunned them if I had shunned my son and gone down that path and I am so happy I didn't um I'm not happy that I didn't take time for myself to decom deconstruct and go through um through that process so that's why in this 20 years is actually a lot it hasn't really been to the last couple years that I started um actually trying to figure out what the bible really says because I didn't really do anything um I was in nothing you know just I didn't know what to think um so I started reading the Bible and um and then actually I did get re-baptized because I didn't want to be in my head that um tie to Jehovah's Witnesses that I was a baptized member of the Jehovah I mean the Jehovah Witness organization um so I did get re-baptized um then I kind of did nothing for a while um just trying to figure out what was going on working um you got baptized into another religion religion yeah it was a it was a pretty open religion it was a Baptist religion but it was not a strict Baptist um and so you know I've felt a lot of stuff that they talked about I really felt um that's how I felt so you know just kind of reconciled how how I felt so it made me feel it was a good purpose for me at the time you know that that season was a good purpose to just totally switch over from the religion and and not um not name myself as a Jehovah's Witness anymore you know or I was a Jehovah Witness or whatever um and then uh and then I'm curious going back to that time in your life when you gave the letter to everyone of your family members the outcome what was the outcome to that with that total silence immediately nothing from my mother from my um sisters and brother nothing um now once in a while I it's hard for me to remember back then because I am uh really good at blocking out bad bad times um it's hard for me to remember we did talk a little my mother my mother would contact the um David the youngest because David wasn't disfellowshipped and then she would talk to him and you know get messages and my sisters and my brother you know they would cut they still they'd contact him um because he never got baptized um but they were way into um the shunning um there was a time when um we during all this that we had been before the letter that we had been at one of my sisters homes and my brother is an elder and um Vince was asking him it was after he was disfellowshipped but before my letter so he was asking him a bunch of questions about you know what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and my brother could not answer any questions none and I wasn't supposed to be listening but I was because you know you're not supposed to listen now you can't know what your kid is telling an elder um and I was like you've got to be kidding this kid is you know knows more about the Bible than you do and you're an elder so you know it all just was like nothing against my brother I love him so much um but it was just like that whole dichotomy of they don't know what's going on so that's why when I started um so the the only time they have contacted me was when my um mother Pat was going to pass and this is a really sweet story um my brother called me it's always my brother my brother called me or my brother one of my brother-in-laws that's the missionary they call me and they say mom's real bad she's in hospice I didn't even know she was sick um do you want to come see her or you know we're just telling you all right no I'm coming I was on the first plane with my husband then and the boys and we went to go see my mom and my mom had been in a coma for two days and um they're like you know we don't know if she's going to know who she is and I walk into the room and everybody's there and you know talking and a little quiet murmuring and I walk in and I say Mom how are you doing and she woke up and said Eva she said come over here she said I want you to know that I've always loved you and that another another chill moment and that was my confirmation I'm doing the right thing and then I had a second confirmation because my one of my older sisters who was the one I was closest to um we were I was sitting on a um a couch and she sat next to me and she said I just want you to know that what we got what we're doing right now will we will continue until you leave and then it'll go back the way it was you could have stuck my heart with with a knife right then that was hard that was really hard I was like man that's some cruel stuff so the next I re uh state for um just we pretty much left after you know after um a couple of days um and then she didn't really pass until um a few days later um after that and um I was it was hard for me when I got back you know just really in that depression about that but I realized it was it was another confirmation that that's not who I am that's that's not if somebody does something wrong I'm not gonna treat them like you know they they're invisible that's that's so wrong so [Music] um I didn't hear from them again until my father was sick and my father was he was a he wanted to be a Jehovah Witness but he had a really really really hard life and without going into all of that he did not get any parenting skills at all and I always felt like wow even though he had no parenting at all he raised eight children seven of them girls which is a a big job and stayed married to my mother until they were both you know passed away so I had a lot of respect for that but he smoked and he drank and so he couldn't be a witness you know he did study to be a witness but um I think the only bad thing I can say he used to take Parts out of the car so that we couldn't go to the Kingdom Hall sometimes because he didn't like that my mother was always off with the witnesses you know doing there was always something to do so um that that was pretty pretty calming actually but um when my dad died they did the same thing so I got a call uh dad is in hospice um do you want to come or you know or do you want to what what would you like to do or would you like to talk to him on the phone I'm like no I'm coming I was on the next plane from Atlanta to uh to Rochester and um it was me and my two sons at the time and same thing um everybody was real you know nice to me not so nice to not friendly to Vince but friendly to David and um it was one day he was you know he looked pretty good and then the next day he um didn't and he was um wanting his morphine and nobody wanted to uh give him his morphine so I gave him his morphine um and uh that was his last shot of morphine and then he passed away so I had this really tough feeling you know in my heart but um I remember he was the one that said to me um I you need to get back to the Jehovah's Witnesses because I want to see you in Paradise and so um I didn't I wanted to leave him with a good memory and to go in peace so I said I know Dad I know and I just kept it at that because I I didn't want to lie you know that or preach to him or anything if that was the best thing for me to do at the time and he passed um that evening or it was within within a few hours he had passed now after that and after they came to get his body all of them left and left me by myself in the apartment the uh what do they call that Rehabilitation home or something at that apartment alone overnight after my dad just passed and could I I couldn't sleep in his bed I couldn't I I couldn't sleep on the couch uh it was just it was awful so I was just like I can't believe they didn't even ask me if I wanted to go eat with them or something no then he was shunning me too because I was apostate and that you know it was over so they did not feel like they had to talk to me anymore um I get to the airport so actually I changed my flight and went home earlier and I get to the airport and I see that I have a call and it was my brother and he was like oh um we I just wanted to see if you wanted to um get together for a meal and I was like I was thinking about and they said but I see that you've already left because they were at the place and saw that it was gone I was thinking to myself you left me all night and you just realized this afternoon that I'm gone who does that so I Gotta Laugh at it now but that was hard too my parents stats was hard um but I I got through it and uh some of the details are a little sketchy because like you don't want to remember everything that's it's not it's not healthy for me anyways so um that was that what what a story that was Eva Jesus um I I cannot even imagine how isolating you felt during that time and how alone you felt during that time of such vulnerable immense vulnerability during the passing of grandparents um so then my question to you is how are you now after all that happened and closing the chapter of your parents and you settling into this life of being a real person outside of the Jehovah's Witnesses what what how is it oh I'm sorry yeah what's your what's your life like now okay so um my husband and I have been married for 12 years I mean we've been together for 12 years married for 10. and um life is good his family is amazing it's like I have all these sisters now and you know the Brethren and the uh it's just the um nephews and nieces and it's just it's he's got a wonderful family um I couldn't ask for better then um I decided about um after my husband recovered from um answer that I needed to um kind of um figure out what I wanted to do I never thought to myself what do what what is my passion what do I want to do who do I want to be what do I want to be known for my son my oldest son used to ask me that all the time I'm like I I don't know for years and years and years I don't know who am I what do I want I don't know I know I have I worked you know to make money but other than that I don't know it's not like it was my passion it's um I enjoyed my work it wasn't um that I didn't but it wasn't like for me um so I started uh just a few years ago looking online at the xjw groups and the first one that came to me was Elaine from um a xjaw Escape and I really um enjoyed the way that she was very positive um and never like blasted the Jehovah's Witnesses she just just spoke truth um and because I didn't like I don't like negativity against Jehovah's Witnesses because my family is Jehovah Witnesses and they may not want to be with them I mean with me but I love them I love them with all my heart I you know I I would still do anything for them if they knocked down my door or you know called me up that is it's an open door for me um I have no resentment towards them at all right none towards Jehovah's Witnesses um I they are just Pawns in a giant chess game is all the thing that I found is that I didn't know the Bible I didn't know the Bible at all so um having Bible studies um with Elaine um through a Bible study group she has online has really been helping me a lot um you know she's really takes the time to help you understand the Bible and if you feel differently it's not like you know you can't believe that it's just you know it's just very sweet and and calm and she's got a great demeanor very strong woman and then um I came across a couple others that I was really interested in and um Rodney Allgood he is very very because he does impul empowerment and um for xjws and I like the way that um very encouraging you know nothing negative don't say anything negative about Jehovah's Witnesses in the comments you know it's always to be very encouraging towards each other um another even though I've always liked uh Wayne Dyer I liked his just gentle um the way he talks and uh would um admit his faults and you know show you that he's like a real person you know it's not just um up there like a televangelist because I don't I can't do those the latest person I found in the last few months is yeah it's it's just one of those names he is so awesome and he has helped me so much and not he has each one of those um people have kind of like helped me um grow and to figure out what I want and Gabor has showed me that all the trauma my family has had while in Germany under the um than the Nazis in the war is my parents who are uh young children during the War World War II um all that and then coming to the United States and starting over with nothing and um that trauma and then the trauma that I have gone through and um it is he has just helped me understand that um I I started having um health issues and so I just and I don't want to talk about that a lot I just want to say I understood now I understand now where those health issues come from and that I don't say what in the world is going on with me am I am I a hypochondriac because the doctor will say no you you know we got tests and I'm like no I think I'm a hypochondria so um he has helped me so much and he has helped me how to uh think um to listen before and think about what the person is saying before I talk because I have always been super bad about that I'll talk people and so I'm trying really hard if I've done that today I apologize but I'm trying really hard not to do that um he is such a wonderful resource um he is he has so much um he's practiced as a doctor and he's got uh just so much information in that mind of his and he talks in a way that you can understand and it's like your grandfather and you're you know just you know cuddled up to your grandfather and he's telling you it's wonderful if anybody has issues where they feel like um they not sure where they stand mentally and and have physical problems he is the number one person I would suggest to contact because he's amazing so um then I found this uh group that was actually in Charlotte North Carolina xjw and they were looking for someone to join in on a foundation that they were going to start so um it was in January of I said I wrote to um her and said I live in Atlanta but I am you know I had time so I was like I am interested is what is this all about and um it was a foundation called um that they were just starting just starting um witnessingfreedom.com and it's a foundation where um we are that I'm going to be developing programs for extra Jehovah Witnesses once they're getting out to acclimate them to the to the world and um we're going to be making a movie hopefully Netflix worthy um we do have the um production um lining lined up we do need funds you know because stuff like that super um super expensive but that is my passion right now to um talk to people um if somebody's having you know uh an issue if I can help I'm gonna help if I you know I I can and if I can't help I'm going to pass you on to somebody who can help you um because my passion is that these young people that are um evicted from their homes because they don't believe the religion of their parents it's heartbreaking to me and the things the bad choices they make um and the lives they sometimes live and that's why Witnesses say oh you know nothing good is going to come out of that well yeah because you didn't prepare them for life they have to be prepared for life I think I was prepared because we've had such a big family and you kind of had to do your um you had to do stuff like to make money while you were you know you're not going to be given a car and you're not going to be given money you have to do that yourself so I don't think a lot of kids realize that they need to do that kind of preparation before they leave so that they they can you know although kicking a kid out of your house as a minor is ridiculous to me it's ridiculous um so that's where I'm at right now uh really you know working on this foundation and trying to um let others know about it and I actually um also got in touch with uh or fifth got in touch with me are you um I'm gonna have to cut you short because I have one percent battery in life like a gift I talk too much and they didn't and I know I just want to say thank you so much for doing such incredible work right now and I just want to honor that and I'm also going to leave a link where people can find specifically you and connect with you in the description and if anyone wants to connect with Eva she's a source of so much goodness so thank you again Eva for this interview I really really appreciate it thank you very much absolutely thank you for watching I'm glad we made it my computer hasn't died yet thank you

Channel: Vevian Vozmediano

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Length: 55min 17sec (3317 seconds)

Published: Mon May 01 2023