What follows is an email that has been going around to Witnesses for a month or so. Some of you may have already seen it. It may have even been posted to this forum and escaped my notice.
Anyway, apparently there is some civil unrest in Honduras which, according to this email, has disrupted the activity of JWs in that country. What I always find amazing is that JWs always conclude that everything that goes on in these countries that negatively impacts them was definitely started by Satan and always for the direct purpose of slowing down or stopping the preaching work.
Hi Friends, Hope you are doing well.
Life here in Honduras has definitely changed with the political situation
that is happening.
To give you a basic overview, the President of Honduras , (Zelaya), wanted to
pass a referendum to the constitution that would allow the president to run
for two terms instead of just one. Well, the people felt he was trying to
take steps to becoming a dictator like Chavez did in Venezuela . So, last
Sunday morning, the other branches of government had the military arrest the
president, sent him to Costa Rica , and appointed a new president.
The U.S. and other countries want Zelaya returned to power for political
reasons. So, now there is a big standoff between Zelaya and the rest of the
country who doesn’t want him back.
For safety's sake, the branch, with approval from the GB, has canceled all
the meetings and group witnessing in the whole country. The brothers can
still do their bible studies and informal witnessing, but no preaching
groups in order to not be confused with a protest and to avoid any protests.
We also received instruction not even to meet as groups to study for the
meetings; rather they encourage all to study as a family during the Family
Worship night. It is amazing to see how important it is to have a regular
Family Worship night.
Since Teresa and I are still serving in Bethel, in Tegucigalpa , our days
have been pretty much routine with our work, however we’ve been encouraged
not to leave Bethel unnecessarily. For the missionaries and special pioneers
whose “job” is to preach, life has been pretty strange being indoors
recently.
Yesterday, an email went out from the Branch to all missionaries and
need-greaters of evacuation plans to get out of the country in case things
get worse. They divided the country into 3 sections and assigned all
foreigners to the neighboring country’s branches of Guatemala, El Salvador ,
and Nicaragua. While it hasn’t gotten to that point, they quoted Pr 22:3 –
“Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceeds to conceal
himself”.
We pray that things calm down soon because we have our national English D.C.
in 2 weeks. It is going to be a special convention because Bro. Pierce from
the GB and Gilead instructor, Bro. Noumair, will be coming for talks. So
hopefully we will still have it.
It’s interesting that for the last 25 years this country has been very
stable. But, now that the work has really been booming Satan has tried to
through a wrench in the works. Of course, we know without a doubt, that
Jehovah is always ultimately in control. So, we will see what the near
future holds.
Please, keep this situation in your prayers; to let things work out for the
good of God’s Kingdom.
Take care.