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Show :r f-.V I I; . t i .. f - njrf mm - - ! ' - - -" , t . 1 1 V " "Sj' f " ;j I i tl .). ' I . ... 1 ;. 1 ,,,,- .J. RECENT GRADUATES of Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower Bible Bi-ble School of Gilead are former Vernal residents Leonard and Nancy Ellis, left. Shown with them, locating their various assignments on a globe is Nilsa Quinones of the Philhpines. Of the 11 countries to which the 45 members of the class are assigned, the Ellises will be going to Kenya, Africa. This is a lifetime assignment. Residents graduate from Jehovah's Witnesses' school Former Vernal residents, Nancy and Leonard Ellis graduated on March 9 in New York City from the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, the missionary school of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Ellises have been assigned to the African country of Kenya where there are currently 2,133 Jehovah's Witnesses Wit-nesses among a population of 15,000,000. "Although all of the 45 students in the class had previously been teachers of the Bible full time," Mr. Ellis said, "the missionary course greatly sharpened our ability to teach God's Word, as well as showed us how better to apply the Bible's practical principles in our own lives." "Jehovah's Witnesses," he went on to say, "do not get involved with politics or social reform in any country. Our work as missionaries will be to benefit individuals and communities by teaching the Bible's high moral standards stan-dards and its message of God's kingdom as mankind's only hope." Jehovah's Witnesses are a society of Christians who believe that God's kingdom is an actual government now-ruling now-ruling in the heaven which will soon take complete charge of the earth. bringing peace and perfect conditions to the human race. All of the 2.2 million Witnesses in 205 lands actively promote home Bible study in their communities, offering their services as trained teachers free of charge. The Gilead School, since its founding in 1943, has specially trained more than 6,000 Jehovah's Witnesses as missionaries. |