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2016 Jehovah’s Witness average publishers: 37,704. Congregations: 583. Baptisms: 1397. Memorial Attendance: 65,742. Preaching hours: 11.1 million.
Early History
In early 1932, 10,000 copies of the speech “The Kingdom, the Hope of the World” were distributed in Santo Domingo (Proclaimers 1993). Formal teaching of Bible students began with the arrival of Lennart and Virginia Johnson, missionaries trained at the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead in upstate New York, in April 1946 (Yearbook 2015). The Johnsons arrived in Ciudad Trujillo (now Santo Domingo) with little knowledge of Spanish and no acquaintances in the country. The Lennarts called on referrals provided by Dominican acquaintances who had studied the Bible with them in New York, and Moses Rollins, a neighbor of one of the referrals, soon became the first native Jehovah’s Witness publisher in the Dominican Republic. In June 1945, four additional missionaries arrived. The Witnesses soon distributed many tracts...
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2016 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide (2017) 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, pp 178–186
Dominican Republic (2015) 2015 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, pp 81–170
Jehovah’s Witnesses - Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom(1993) Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York. 750 p
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Stewart, D.G. (2018). Jehovah’s Witnesses in Dominican Republic. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_446-1
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