ENGLAND PRESS COMMENT Why are there more and more Jehovah's Witnesses in the center of the city of Newcastle?

[Bible Speaks]

ENGLAND
PRESS COMMENT
Why are there more and more Jehovah's Witnesses in the center of the city of Newcastle?

Members of the faith spend part of their time delivering copies of the faith magazine, The Watchtower.
If you have been recently in the center of the city of Newcastle, you will have noticed them.

Happily handing out copies of The Watchtower of the cars, Jehovah's Witnesses head to the streets of Newcastle in droves.

And the reason for the recent increase is simply due to a change in tactics.

For years, members have gone door to door to spread the word about faith.

But now the members are heading to the city to try to reach more people.

"We feel that the use of cars allows us to reach people we might not find at home due to their work schedules or other factors," said spokesman Andrew Schofield. "The cars also give the public the option to approach or not to us, which some people appreciate.
"Literature carts are being used not only in the Newcastle area but throughout the world, and we anticipate that they will be a regular feature of our public preaching for many years to come."

Faith has congregations in Wideopen, Gosforth, Benwell, Heaton and Benton.

No one at the London headquarters, or at multiple Tyneside branches, would comment on whether the strategy resulted in an increase in followers.

There are around eight and a half million Jehovah's Witnesses around the world.
The modern organization began in the late nineteenth century. At that time, a small group of Bible students who lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, began a systematic analysis of the Bible.

They compared the doctrines taught by the churches with what the Bible really teaches. They began to publish what they learned in books, newspapers and the newspaper that is now called The Watchtower: announcing the Kingdom of Jehovah.

Famous followers will not accept blood donations, nor celebrate birthdays, claiming that "such celebrations displease God."

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