The Biggest Preaching Campaign The World Has Seen

This is my son Axel - He is 8 years old and in his words ... "I love talking to people about JW.ORG it makes me feel joyful... it makes my heart feel funny"

That just about sums up how we all felt after this past month - I can hardly believe the month of August is over! Did everyone have a great time??? Just to give you the heads up the Quinns Rock cong had 69 pioneer (including 9 regulars)!!!

Wow well we hit our holiday running arriving into the US on the 29th of July. We had a few days to recover from jet lag and adjust to the stiffling humidity and then got into the swing of things.

We're in the South and they do things a little differently here. Firstly each publisher / pioneer is given a map which they sign in and out and it's their responsibilty to cover it. So when you go to the group you get assigned into to car lots and then it's up to you where you go.  Hendersonville Tn is a mixture of both rural and city so depending on how hot it was it determined whether you were walking or driving!
Check out our territory!

Yep they are wild turkeys - on the left side!

We are in the bible belt now!

Lots of famous country singers live here!

In addition maps were done not according to blocks but to streets so you would complete both sides of the street for instance (which could contain 7 blocks ) and then you would do the next street and so on. In relation to the tracts we were instructed to leave them in the door but under no circumstances do you put them in the mail box - the complete opposite back home! It took awhile to get used to the new way but we had a wonderful month!

Nothing like celebrating the last saturday of the campaign month with donuts!

We also managed to help out the Franklin Congregation, they have over 500 maps and it roughly takes them 2.5 years to complete their territory. They often have congregations come in to assist and are on the needs list if you are thinking of moving where the need is great!

Public Witnessing Franklin Tn - outside a historic church!

We have met so many wonderful faithful brothers and sisters and have had some lovely experiences including meeting "Charlie" who pictured below has Lou Gehrigs disease, and was auxillary pioneering last month. Two weeks into the month he was told he had only 6 months to live - what an inspiration and a faithful bother!