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Right: Victor Manuel, a publisher of the good news for almost 50 years, served in the second Papiamento-speaking congregation

In 1970 a congregation of 17 publishers was formed in the village of Zorgvliet bij Jan Kok, and meetings were held in the home of the Pieters Kwiers family. Special pioneers Juana Pieters Kwiers and her daughter, Esther, together with the Minguel and Koeiman families worked hard to build up the congregation. By 1985 the congregation had grown to 76 publishers with a meeting attendance of 125. In that same year, love moved brothers from the United States to volunteer to construct a Kingdom Hall in Pannekoek, and the old Kingdom Hall was converted into a missionary home. In two years’ time, the number of publishers rose to 142, so that in 1987 the Tera Corá Congregation was formed.