To provide a place for meetings, a makeshift Kingdom Hall was erected by stretching the mainsail from Integrity over several pandanus poles that were set in the ground. “As our crowds got larger, we just added more sail,” Brother Mikkelsen said. “Next came the mizzen sail; a little later, on went the jib sail. When we had no more sails left, the time had come to build a ‘proper’ Kingdom Hall.”

The Kingdom Hall at that time had a tin roof, no walls, and only the hard ground for a floor. “I spoke, through a translator, to a small group of 20 on my first visit,” Miller recounts. “The talk was interrupted by a large hog wandering into the Kingdom Hall!”

When he was shown from the Bible, however, that the dead return to dust, Sailass accepted the truth and was baptized in 1969. (Gen. 3:19) He was instrumental in obtaining land for a new Kingdom Hall, and he also became the first Marshallese translator.

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Publishers at Ebeye Kingdom Hall