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Jehovah’s Witnesses in Honduras

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2016 Jehovah’s Witness average publishers: 22,908. Congregations: 442. Baptisms: 474. Memorial Attendance: 34,528. Preaching hours: 6.7 million.

Early History

Freddie Johnson, a woman in her 50s, traveled by horse across the northern coast of Honduras and preached in the 1930 (Proclaimers 1993). Johnson placed over 2,700 books and booklets with interested persons. She returned in 1934, 1940, and 1941. One other publisher preached in 1943.

The first missionaries trained at the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead arrived in October 1945 (Yearbook 1993). By the end of 1946, there were nine missionaries, including Donald Burt, Darlean Mikkelssen, Loverna and Ethel Grell, and Everett and Gertrude Weatherby. Watch Tower Society President Nathan H. Knorr visited Honduras in 1946 and established a branch office. Donald Burt was assigned as branch servant and traveled to the interior to assess needs. In 1946, a congregation was formed in the capital, Tegucigalpa. From 1946 to 1949,...

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  • 1991 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society of Pennsylvania (1991) New York, pp 26–31

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  • 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society of Pennsylvania (2017) New York, pp 178–186

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  • “Honduras,” 1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society of Pennsylvania (1993) New York, pp 148–207

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  • Jehovah’s Witnesses – Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, Watch Tower Tract and Bible Society of Pennsylvania (1993) New York, p 750

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  1. Sociology/Anthropology, Oakland Univ Sociology/Anthropology, Rochester, MI, USA

    Henri Gooren

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Stewart, D.G. (2019). Jehovah’s Witnesses in Honduras. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_453-1

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