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9300 Zeugen Jehovas im Hallenstadion Während der drei Tage dauernden Veranstaltung liessen sich 37 Personen taufen, wie die Organisatoren heute in ihrem Schlusscommuniqué schreiben. Am Kongress freigegeben wurde zudem eine neue Schrift. Diese werde den Angehörigen der Glaubensgemeinschaft besonders in der Mission nützlich sein. (ret/sda) From The Morning Call Rich Schultz Special to The Morning Call Three Easton area Jehovah’s Witness congregations will soon have a bigger Kingdom Hall, thanks to hundreds of friends. At the end of residential Lieb Road in Forks Township, in a scene that parallels an Amish barn raising, scores of Jehovah’s Witness volunteers this weekend are completing much of the basic work — including roofing, plumbing and electrical — to enlarge the hall, built in 1977. The finish work is scheduled to be done next weekend. Currently, the Easton English, Forks, and Easton Spanish congregations use the Forks Kingdom Hall. The expansion, which will increase the building’s size by about a third, to 5,000 square feet, will provide for a bigger auditorium and additional classrooms and offices. The building also will be made more handicap accessible, said Don Dreibelbies, a Palmer Township resident and elder in the Easton English congregation. ”In addition to friends from the three local congregations, we literally have volunteers from all over the eastern Pennsylvania area, from Phillipsburg to Wilkes-Barre. All told, there may be 1,000 people in and out of here during the build at different times, depending on their trade,” Dreibelbies said. ”This is an educational center that lets us take care of what we need to do to be skilled to do, what we feel Jesus has told us in the Bible is the most important work, that is preaching the good news of the Kingdom.” Many of the volunteers helping in the Forks project are part of a regional building committee that also helps in other Jehovah’s Witness building projects. The committee also has done disaster relief work outside the region in places such as Jamaica, Mississippi and Florida. The three congregations using the Forks facility have been sharing space with other Jehovah’s Witness congregations during construction. Dreibelbies said there are about 300 members among the three congregations who regularly work in preaching and teaching. On Saturday at the work site, volunteers were busy in an array of jobs. While some installed wiring, others worked on air-conditioning and heating ducts. Some nailed down roof shingles, others made sure the work area was clean. Others prepared lunch. ”For our local congregations, it’s really a great experience,” said Jonathan Grew of Palmer, a longtime regional building committee volunteer. ”The expansion of the building is going to make our use of the building much better.” Each day’s work begins with breakfast, discussion of a Bible text, and discussions on work safety. Dreibelbies said the project is meant to both put up a new building and be a ‘’spiritually upbuilding experience.” Tom Lynar of Easton, an elder in the Easton Spanish congregation and a carpenter by trade, is also a member of the regional building group. He said the volunteer support at the Forks site helps local congregation members see what happens at other construction sites. ”They get to see the unity that we have as an organization,” he said. ”Everyone is volunteering their time, they are bringing their tools and their equipment to help out locally. Everyone sees how much everyone is sharing with what they have and it brings a good joy.” This is a video of a “quick-build,” a three-day construction of one of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Halls in La Fayette, GA. With over 650 … Tout » volunteers present on Saturday, and the work well-organized, it’s no wonder they finish these projects so quickly! « The La Fayette, GA Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses was built October 22-24, 2004. This video was played at the dedication ceremony. Kingdom hall construction group Sumulong Highway, Marikina City A visit at the Bethel in Germany (Selters) Song 202 To God We Are Dedicated! Asamblea del 16 de julio 2006. Cota. Cundinamarca. Colombia. Un pequeño video en la sesion de la tarde. Total immersion For Jehovah’s Witnesses, dedication to doctrine is the way to live life And Darcell Williams says her immersion in a portable pool this month was an experience she, too, will not forget. They’re Jehovah’s Witnesses recalling the key symbolic experience in their spiritual lives — their baptism. A single message emerges: Theirs is a faith that demands what most Americans would consider great personal sacrifice. Jones, 88, says that since his baptism in 1953, when he was 35, he has sought to “read the Bible at least one hour every day” and to “witness to others” whenever he has the opportunity. And 17-year-old Darcell, a 2006 graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, says she can imagine nothing more important in her life than the mission of a Witness. That duty, she says, is to communicate — to as many people as possible — her belief that the Bible provides answers to many of life’s questions. Sometimes the answers Witnesses find put them dramatically at odds with mainstream society. A widely known example is how, historically, most members rejected blood transfusions, even when doing so meant risking life. The church has clarified its stance – members now may receive certain blood products (instead of whole blood). Despite the recent interpretation regarding blood, Jones maintains that he and most Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the Bible – and its informed study – can yield “all that we need to know in life.” Indeed, Jehovah’s Witnesses – 6.6 million worldwide, including a little more than a million in the United States and less than 20,000 in Northeast Ohio – dedicate what others consider free time to studying the Bible and taking its messages of salvation and hope to nonmembers in their communities. That includes strangers members may approach on the street or in their homes. “We don’t just belong to a church. We go out from our homes and Kingdom Halls [the religion's worship and meeting centers] and ‘make disciples of all the nations,’ ” Witness Jim Roach says, quoting Matthew 28:19 in the New Testament. At a recent gathering of area members – and across a gulf of 71 years’ age difference – Jones and Darcell shared their feelings and experiences regarding their commitment to their religion. Jones, dapper, focused and hardworking, dedicates 70 hours a month to the person-to-person ministry for which his denomination is known. Often working with fellow Witnesses, he knocks on doors in his neighborhood and others in Cleveland and its suburbs. Before retiring, Jones worked as a letter carrier, and he remains fit enough to keep active in what his church considers a 2,100-year-old tradition of face-to-face Christian evangelism. “We think of it as practicing the same approach Jesus and his apostles used,” he says. A gathering of Witnesses Jones and Darcell sit in a windowless basement room at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center, where Roach and other church members, all men in dark suits, white shirts and ties, linger to hear their conversation. In the arena’s levels above, some 7,500 Witnesses have gathered for an annual district convention to sing, read the Bible and listen to lectures and testimony from senior and learned members, called elders, as well as a few other members who step up to microphones to tell their stories. Witnesses from Ohio and neighboring states have been meeting in the CSU arena each weekend in July. Today and Sunday are the final days of this assembly, which also includes the baptism of dozens of new members. “We consider baptism a very public display of our faith and commitment,” says Roach, spokesman for the district committee. The denomination’s meetings, he emphasizes, “are freely open to anyone. We don’t turn anybody away.” Kingdom Halls, too, invite nonmembers to Bible discussions and lectures. Jones, a Georgia native, settled in Cleveland in 1945 after serving in the South Pacific during World War II. He had grown up a Baptist. When he began working here, he started looking for “some enlightenment from the Scriptures,” he says. He remembers hearing other Christians tell him that they had been hopeless sinners before turning to God for salvation, and, without that, they would be doomed to an eternity in hell. Jones says he wondered why “a loving God would take his highest creation – which man is supposed to be” – and condemn all to damnation “if they didn’t get the word.” He began attending a Kingdom Hall, then on East 108th Street near Cedar Avenue in Cleveland, “because the Jehovah’s Witnesses had this message of a loving God. That’s one of the things I liked.” Joining the denomination required him to study the Bible with others and consider the depth of his commitment. More than seven years passed before he felt ready to be baptized. Roach explains that such a protracted period between introduction and baptism is the norm. “People who come to us,” he says, “take up a personal study of the Bible” and consider how they will conduct their own evangelism once they are members. Learning to spread God’s word To carry the religious message, Jehovah’s Witnesses must learn to overcome any reticence. Congregations hold weekly meetings where experienced Witnesses help newer members structure their messages, engage outsiders and practice courtesy and clear, convincing delivery. Many Witnesses attend special training sessions that help them overcome any unease they have about knocking on doors, with the denomination’s Watchtower and Awake publications in hand, to address people about their own acceptance of the church’s doctrines and, especially, to urge them to study the Bible. “These sessions help them learn how to approach people and communicate their messages, how to witness to strangers,” Roach says. Darcell plans to continue the training she already has begun at Cleveland’s Hayden Congregation and other Kingdom Halls because, she says, “I want to help spread the word of Jehovah.” Already poised and a good student, the young woman plans to enroll in the Cuyahoga Community College registered-nurse program at the Metropolitan Campus in Cleveland this fall. “It [college] may take me a little longer,” she says, “because I want to become a pioneer.” A pioneer, one of the three levels of ministry within the denomination, requires further Bible study and learning more about how to witness effectively to others. Darcell will attend her pioneer sessions at a Kingdom Hall on Superior Avenue in Cleveland, learning techniques, often through role-playing exercises with more experienced church members and elders, who then critique the efforts and suggest changes in substance, delivery or style. Most of the teaching and sharing of traditions falls to elders. Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t organize their congregations around an official clergy. “We’re all clergy, in a way,” Darcell says. Roach explains that elders and others well-versed in Scripture often lead or facilitate discussions at some of the three-times-a-week meetings at Kingdom Halls or in smaller groups in members’ homes. “But everybody is encouraged to participate,” he says. “Children, too, may ask about” passages in the Bible or lend their opinions, the same as others present, whether baptized Witnesses or not. “We’re open to all,” he says, referring to a central feature of this little-understood denomination. Costume drama addresses deliverance by Jehovah God Actors give their interpretation of 1 Kings 13 before the audience assembled at the district convention at SeaGate Centre in downtown Toledo.
By DAVID YONKE Actors in biblical costumes told a story of obedience, based on I Kings 13, before an audience of 5,937 at the Jehovah’s Witnesses District Convention in downtown Toledo. The full-wardrobe drama, presented Sunday, addressed the theme that deliverance for humanity will not come from technology, politics, advanced education, or the world’s religions, but that “only Jehovah God can deliver mankind, using his Son, Christ Jesus, to destroy the wicked,” said Charles Leonard, a spokesman for the district convention. More than 12,000 people attended the first two of the six 2006 district conventions, held every Friday through Sunday between July 14 and Aug. 20 in the SeaGate Convention Centre. This year’s convention is titled “Deliverance at Hand!” a message intended to encourage people despite bad news and negative circumstances, Mr. Leonard said. “In view of what’s going on in the world today, with so many pressures on people — war, sickness, and violence — people are concerned,” he said. “According to Bible prophecy, these are indications that we are getting closer to deliverance by God.” Jehovah’s Witnesses are not worried about End Times prophecies or Armageddon, he added. “People call it the end of the world, but Jehovah’s Witnesses view it as a time of deliverance when all wickedness will be done away with, pretty much like in Noah’s day,” Mr. Leonard said. The district convention continues at 9:30 a.m. today and tomorrow in the SeaGate Centre, 401 Jefferson Ave. On Friday and continuing through Aug. 6, the Toledo sessions will be entirely in Spanish, with delegates coming from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, according to spokesman Paul Sepulveda. Jehovah’s Witnesses were founded in 1879 in suburban Pittsburgh and today number 6.4 million adherents in 230 nations. Witnesses Launch International Campaign for ‘Deliverance’ July 28. 2006 – Starting this weekend and continuing the next three weeks, Jehovah’s Witnesses will launch an intensive campaign to extend a personal invitation to everyone in Frederiksted, including those from St. Thomas, St. John, and British Virgin Islands to attend the 2006 “Deliverance at Hand!” District Convention. The Witnesses want to provide each household with the specially printed invitation that also gives information about the three-day event being held at Jehovah´s Witnesses Assembly Hall beginning at 9:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. 4, at 23 North Carlston Road, Frederiksted. Admission to the convention is free and no collections will be taken. Testigos de Jehová bautizarán a 100 nuevos adeptos en piscina Los Testigos de Jehová bautizarán mañana a 100 nuevos adeptos en una piscina que instalarán en el Palacio de Deportes de Madrid, donde desde hoy celebrarán su asamblea anual bajo el lema ‘Nuestra liberación se acerca’, informó a EFE su portavoz, José Luque. De los 125.000 testigos de Jehová que hay en España, esperan una asistencia aproximada de 10.000 a lo largo de los tres días que durará la asamblea, dijo Luque. El encuentro, al que acuden testigos de Jehová de las comunidades de Madrid, Extremadura, Castilla La Mancha y Castilla León, tendrá como tema central ‘la proximidad del día en que Dios ajustará las cuentas a la humanidad’. Los testigos de Jehová informaron de que están convencidos de que los sucesos de la actualidad ’son cumplimiento de profecías bíblicas’, que indican que ‘el día en el cual Dios ajustará las cuentas a la humanidad está muy cercano’. De acuerdo con Luque, del 4 al 6 de agosto habrá una segunda asamblea, que nuevamente tendrá como foro el Palacio de los Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. LONDRES (Reuters) – La police britannique a obligé une femme à retirer du portail de sa maison une pancarte signalant: “Notre chien se nourrit des Témoins de Jéhovah”. Janet Grove, propriétaire de Rabbit, un chiot Jack Terrier, a expliqué que le panneau était une plaisanterie destinée à décourager ces visiteurs potentiels. Son mari, décédé depuis lors, l’avait accrochée il y a plus de 30 ans après qu’un adepte de cette communauté eut frappé à leur porte un jour de Noël. Après dépôt d’une plainte, la police a dû agir. “Nous avons été informés par quelqu’un qui jugeait la pancarte perturbante, choquante et déplacée”, a déclaré un porte-parole de la police de Bursledon, dans le Hampshire (sud de l’Angleterre). “Des policiers se sont présentés sur place et le panneau a été volontairement démonté”.
Imperia: Testimoni di Geova tornano sulle trasfusioni Testimoni di Geova di Imperia tornano sull’uso del sangue in medicina che, viene evidenziato in un comunicato ai media “Ha subito dei cambiamenti negli ultimi decenni, di pari passo con una maggiore consapevolezza dei rischi di contagio e degli altri effetti indesiderati connessi con le trasfusioni di sangue. Contemporaneamente, la scienza medica ha perfezionato valide alternative alle emotrasfusioni, le quali non sono impiegate solo sui testimoni di Geova, che le rifiutano per motivi religiosi, ma su tutti i pazienti che desiderano evitare i rischi legati alla pratica trasfusionale”. Si tratta degli argomenti affrontati in un numero di ‘Svegliatevi!’ il cui titolo di copertina è ‘Sangue: Perché è così prezioso?’ “Traendo spunto dalle opinioni di esperti in materia a livello internazionale – proseguono i Testimoni di Geova imperiesi – viene fatto il punto sulla sicurezza delle scorte di sangue e sulle ragioni che spingono molti a cercare di evitarne i rischi avvalendosi delle più moderne tecnologie. A conferma che la chirurgia senza sangue ha fatto enormi passi avanti, solo in Italia ogni anno vengono eseguiti dai 10.000 ai 14.000 interventi chirurgici senza trasfusioni di sangue su testimoni di Geova, grazie a 2.500 medici e chirurghi che operano in oltre 200 ospedali e cliniche private e che hanno sperimentato moderne strategie per curare i pazienti senza sangue. In particolare, nella nostra provincia lo scorso anno sono stati 35 gli interventi chirurgici eseguiti senza trasfusioni su Testimoni, 423 in Liguria”. Jehovah’s Witnesses use Bible to navigate life as they await return of Jesus in near future Question: What does the name Jehovah’s Witnesses mean, and how did your denomination come to that name? |
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