Cruise Ship Cart Witnessing

Cruise ships are now visiting out little beach town. The local vendors are starting to take advantage of this new form of tourism by having an artisan market set up by the port

So, of course we're taking advantage of this as well. We had a lot of passengers walk by & we could hear people commenting, "there's another one". We met 4 JWs from New York who said that they've been seeing carts at most of the cruise ports & seemed very excited about it

You'll notice that we have about 4 bungy cords holding down our cart because of the strong winds

Our New Congregation!!!!!

So, we're definitely WAY behind on posting this, but....as of Dec 1, 2014, our group is officially the Central Ingles Congregation of an Juan Del Sur!!! YAY!!! It was a group for 2 years before becoming a congregation

Our C.O Ruben Garcia visited us the week after our assembly & he was pleasantly surprised to see all of the growth. Ruben gave us our "numbers" & we were SO encouraged: In 6 months, the amount of Bible Studies have DOUBLED to 75 (5 of whom are regularly attending meetings), right now we officially have 35 publishers with 72% being Regular Pioneers (but, we're expected to drop to 20 publishers in April, when people leave to go back home), completing over 9000 hours in the ministry :-) We technically have 4 elders, but only one is here at the moment (the other 3 are working back home). We have approx 6 Ministerial Servants now, but will be losing a few in the next few months. Our congregation is constantly fluctuating, but we're loving every minute f it

It's such a blessing to be serving here & to have seen this huge activity increase over the past 6 months. Bryan & I are currently conducting 5 Bible Studies in English 

Saw this house while out in service...has the Tetragrammaton painted on it !!!