Chicken Baryani goes with Jehovah's Witnesses like the Ganges River goes with Rockefeller Center, but somehow or other, the two have met. The Jersey City Assembly Hall hosted close to 600 Hindi speaking guests for the annual three-day convention August 2010.
Where can you see an African American woman from Atlanta, a Dominican
immigrant living in the Bronx and your average white American teen from
New Jersey dressed in brightly colored saris and punjabi suits, eating
chicken birayani for lunch? In Jersey City on Kennedy Blvd during the
Jehovah’s Witnesses Hindi convention on the last weekend of August
(August 27-29), 2010.
Jehovah’s Witnesses from the United States gathered at the Jersey City Stanley Theatre Assembly Hall to enjoy a three day convention that was delivered in Hindi to an audience of about 584 at the Sunday program.
While the audience included hundreds of Witnesses and visitors from Asian Indian background whose mother tongue was Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil or Bengali, there were also a large number of Americans and Latinos who have made the bold endeavor of learning the Hindi language in an effort to reach out to Asians in their communities.
Witnesses from California, Toronto and Montreal, Atlanta, Florida, Texas and Tennessee, among other locations, were present. Several Americans delivered public talks in fluent Hindi, and one representative from the Jehovah’s Witnesses branch in Bangalore, India also participated in the program, delivering two discourses over the weekend in soft-spoken Hindi. Experiences and interviews were also a part of the program. A new Hindi song book was presented to all who attended as they entered the auditorium.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the end of this system is at hand, that we are living in the "last days" of this system of things, and that the Bible promises a "new world" of peace soon to come, the promised paradise. They refer to the prophecies of Jesus recorded in the Gospels to backup that claim. A good portion of the program on Sunday focused on the qualities of God such as love, compassion and peace, and how individual Christians can reflect these qualities.
Because Jesus stated that the "good news of the Kingdom" would be preached in all the earth for a witness to all the nations, Witnesses take that as a directive, and have set about on a campaign to learn a multitude of languages, apart from the more common Latin-based languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, etc.
"And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." Jesus, Matthew 24:14
Courses are offered for qualifying Jehovah’s Witnesses in such languages as Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese among many other languages, depending on the needs in each specific area. As a result, groups and congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses are growing in such places as Queens, NY, Jersey City, NJ, and all over the world, which supporting these language groups.
So, how about a little chicken birayani for lunch?
Jehovah’s Witnesses from the United States gathered at the Jersey City Stanley Theatre Assembly Hall to enjoy a three day convention that was delivered in Hindi to an audience of about 584 at the Sunday program.
While the audience included hundreds of Witnesses and visitors from Asian Indian background whose mother tongue was Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil or Bengali, there were also a large number of Americans and Latinos who have made the bold endeavor of learning the Hindi language in an effort to reach out to Asians in their communities.
Witnesses from California, Toronto and Montreal, Atlanta, Florida, Texas and Tennessee, among other locations, were present. Several Americans delivered public talks in fluent Hindi, and one representative from the Jehovah’s Witnesses branch in Bangalore, India also participated in the program, delivering two discourses over the weekend in soft-spoken Hindi. Experiences and interviews were also a part of the program. A new Hindi song book was presented to all who attended as they entered the auditorium.
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the end of this system is at hand, that we are living in the "last days" of this system of things, and that the Bible promises a "new world" of peace soon to come, the promised paradise. They refer to the prophecies of Jesus recorded in the Gospels to backup that claim. A good portion of the program on Sunday focused on the qualities of God such as love, compassion and peace, and how individual Christians can reflect these qualities.
Because Jesus stated that the "good news of the Kingdom" would be preached in all the earth for a witness to all the nations, Witnesses take that as a directive, and have set about on a campaign to learn a multitude of languages, apart from the more common Latin-based languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, etc.
"And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." Jesus, Matthew 24:14
Courses are offered for qualifying Jehovah’s Witnesses in such languages as Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese among many other languages, depending on the needs in each specific area. As a result, groups and congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses are growing in such places as Queens, NY, Jersey City, NJ, and all over the world, which supporting these language groups.
So, how about a little chicken birayani for lunch?
Learn here, so when our India brothers invite you eat a Chicken Baryani, at meetings or their home, you know the delights that will
"Chicken Baryani" Receita em portugues.
Receita em pt
 | By John W. Scott Published: 10/20/2010 |
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