Knocking Fest
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
My post a month ago about knocking got people hot under the transom. Now the battle moves to the Bay.
Roughly 70,000 Jehovah's Witnesses are converging at the Cow Palace in Daly City for a series of conventions this summer, and they'll be knocking on tens of thousands of doors along the way.
By the end of the summer, each believer will have attended a three-day convention that consists of intensive Bible study, prayer, song, mass baptisms and a biblical drama. They also will have invited thousands of perfect strangers.
Those gathering at the Cow Palace will have tried to knock on every door from the Oregon border to Reno to the Central Coast. It's a process that will be repeated for 287 conventions in 75 cities around the nation this summer in the largest mobilization of the year for the nation's 1 million Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jehovah's Witnesses are strict biblical literalists who say the Bible does not call for a celebration of Easter, Christmas or individual birthdays. Save for the commemoration of Jesus' Last Supper, the regional conventions are the most important events of the year for the faithful.
Posted by B Feiler at 7:01 AM
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