An estimated 14,400 Jehovah’s Witnesses and others from Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois will converge at the St. Charles Family Arena to benefit from the positive message and practical suggestions that will be highlighted at the 2013 “God’s Word Is Truth!” District Convention, July 5-12.
The convention theme, “God’s Word Is Truth!” underscores a core family value for Jehovah’s Witnesses who embrace the Bible as the most trustworthy guide and source of advice in these troubled times. Lively discourses, dramatic Bible readings, symposiums, and two live plays will all emphasize this theme.
Two three-day conventions will be held in St. Charles on the consecutive weekends of July 5and July 12. The opening session starts at 9:20 a.m. There is no admission fee. Conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are supported entirely by voluntary donations with no offerings ever being solicited.
Locally, all of the area’s 112 congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be supporting a campaign of distributing printed invitations to the conventions.
Throughout the United States, there will be 385 conventions in 103 cities. There are over 7,700,000 Witnesses in more than 111,000 congregations worldwide.
In the United States, 37 percent of adults who self-identify as Jehovah’s Witnesses are African Americans, according to the American Religious Identification Survey conducted in 2001 by researchers at the City University of New York.. This was the highest proportion among the 22 largest religious identifications in the United States at the time of the survey.
For more information, visit www.jw.org.
