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Branch Dedications2014 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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On June 29, 2013, a new three-story office building at the Bethel facilities in Yangon, Myanmar, was dedicated. Guy Pierce of the Governing Body gave the dedication talk to an audience of 1,013 that included guests from 11 other countries. The group of Myanmar brothers and sisters assigned to welcome these guests at the Yangon International Airport were approached by a man from a country where the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses is banned. He pointed to the “Welcome Jehovah’s Witnesses” signs that they were holding and asked, “Are you welcoming witnesses for some kind of court case?” “No, we are welcoming our friends,” they replied. “So who is this Jehovah?” the man asked. Needless to say, the brothers and sisters gave him a fine witness. The day after the dedication program, a special meeting was held at the Myanmar Convention Center, where Brother Pierce spoke on the subject “Serve Jehovah With an Understanding Heart.” The program was tied in by telephone to six other locations throughout Myanmar, enabling a total of 2,963 to hear the timely information. One of the bus drivers who drove a group of local brothers and sisters to the special meeting in Yangon remarked: “I notice that you people are entirely different from other religions. You are well-behaved, well-dressed, and very kind. I have been driving bus groups for many years, but never have I seen such decent people!”
Myanmar: Local publishers welcome visitors to the branch dedication program
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