the wife of a witness dies she and children are not will the husband be ban from hall in funeral non witness?

Question

the wife and children are baptist the husband is a witness they have been married for over 20 years she dies and the childrend want her to have a baptist funeral but out of respect there willing to accept someone speaking from the hall as long as a prayer may be said by her reverend the father said he has to ask for permission the children are very up set there concern is the bother from the hall does not know there mother and has only seen her when he came to the house to see there father for she would go to the other room and stay until he left they feel they have given a lot by not asking for a church what can be done

Answer 1

It would seem that perhaps this questioner is not fluent in English, but a sincere attempt at an answer will be made...

Jehovah's Witness ministers do not participate in interfaith services of any kind whatsoever. No actual Jehovah's Witness would need to "ask permission" of anyone since the matter is unambiguous.

Jehovah's Witnesses accept governmental standards (and/or the expressed will of the deceased) regarding who is authorized to make decisions regarding a funeral and burial (or cremation). In most cases it would seem that a surviving spouse has sole authority.

Since Jehovah's Witnesses thoroughly reject interfaith services, some Witnesses have demonstrated sensitivity to non-Witness relatives by choosing to personally give the funeral talk rather than have a Witness elder do so who may be unfamiliar to the deceased or other family. The Witness could not allow a non-Witness clergyman to pray at or otherwise participate in the service, for to do so would be interfaith.

There seems no reason that non-Witness relatives could not arrange a parallel service according to their own preferences, in a separate location from that planned by the surviving Jehovah's Witness spouse.

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Answer 2

ok from what I know if she was not a witness then the witnesses would not be invovled.They are not going to preach in a another church but from what I know if its at the funeral home its open territory so to speak.Its really up to the family.Usaully the witnesses would simply try to be supportive of the husband in other ways.generally they are very kindhearted people.When my father died several of the witnesses got together and brought a huge assortment of food for our family.They came over brought it in set it up and left saying this is time for family.I really appreciated that. This sounds like something that the husband wants he would have to talk to the elders to be sure if they would even do it.Generally the witnesses do not like to mix two diffrent religious beleifs into one service.Im so sorry for your loss.

Answer 3

Hopefully they all will agree on where she might have wanted it. If she wasn't a witness then she should be where she was of faith at. Yes, according it should be up to the husband, but since she wasn't of his faith and the children were baptist as the Mother, I would think he would agree to what they want. It's best to agree on these things, such a hard time as it besides something to do with faith. Her faith should be all that counts right now.

Answer 4

without adultery there is not any reason for a scriptural divorce. The custody question is a criminal one. the rustic's guidelines take outcome, not something else. for this reason, she might want to get a layer as we communicate upon the husband starting up the divorce proceedings. She also might want to write the society's headquarters in Australia telling them about the problem and the proceedings. He should be disfellowshiped if he did divorce her without perfect reason. Then they both might want to be out of the "reality" and he might want to stay married to her. (ha ha - sigh)

Answer 5

He's a Jehovah's Witness and they are baptist?

Personally if it's wish to have the funeral in her church, than that should be honored. And if his church has a problem with it, too bad, maybe he should leave and join the church his kids and wife went to.

Answer 6

Dang, I may be able to understand that if punctuation was used. I am confused?
Gotta pass on this one.
Good luck.

Answer 7

what the heck are you talking about

Answer 8

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