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THE PRESS
OCTOBER 12, 2024
The world was supposed to end in 1975. Shayne Mechen was 7 years old and living in Hawke’s Bay when he waited for it to happen. He remembers a sense of dread, but perhaps there was some expectation too. As Jehovah’s Witnesses, he and his family would be among the saved. Of course Armageddon never happened. We’re all still here.
Mechen was born into the faith, and was 4 days old at his first Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting. It was his entire life. He remembers weekends spent on faith activities, with no time for sports, no associating with people outside the faith, not even visits to the homes of school friends who were not also Jehovah’s Witnesses. READ MORE:
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