Memorial

Our memorial was so wonderful! We had an excellent turnout. Let me break it down for you... So the english group has between 40-50 publishers and we had 90 people attend the memorial! Several bible students were there along with their families. Our three Ghanian students were there as well. There were also quite a few who attended because they had received an invite from the campaign work. In fact, the day before the memorial we were out doing street work near one of the shopping malls trying to invite foreigners who might speak english. My friend Amy, who is super bold and zealous stopped a guy who ended up being from Alaska. She talked with him a bit and gave him the invite. As they parted she asked, "So are you gonna come tomorrow?" and he said "Sure, why not? I'm not doing anything tomorrow." Well, sure enough, he came!! Afterwards when asked what he thought he mentioned that he had several questions and would like to know more!

The thai congregation also has around 40-50 publishers. They had 124 at their memorial! Their memorial was before ours, so when we arrived they were just getting out. To see the number of interested people, many who came because of the invitation work, walking out of the hall with Watchtowers and other literature in their hands was so encouraging!

The sign language group is quite tiny, only about 10 publishers. They held their memorial at Joe and Fa's home up the street from the hall. They had a whopping 46 in attendance, 22 of whom were deaf! Amazing!

So combined, the attendance this year for Pattaya was 260! Not bad for 90 publishers! It was so great to be a part of this. I've said it before, but there is so much work to be done here in Thailand. Anyone want to 'step on over'???