A Jehovah's Witness Goes Into Eternity

A local brother, not even forty, has recently lost his battle with cancer, leaving behind a wife and a three-year old son.

I went to service (door-to-door ministry) with him a couple of times, but never got to know him very well, sadly that is why I never knew of his condition. He was a cool kind of brother though. In his fifteen years as a baptized Jehovah's Witness he never became a ministerial servant nor an elder, but he did manage the Watchtower and Awake magazine distribution to publishers (JW's who report hours of service to the Society).

His style of preaching was placing the magazines and assuring the person there was no pressure whatsoever to do anything, just to read them.

I will never know in this this life if he had been forgiven by God. One meeting night when he commented he knew Witnesses who had gone through 1975 expecting to see the world end and were now even secretly embittered with the Society. He encouraged us not to be weak, but remain strong.

I should have kept in touch with him somehow and told him about my relationship with JESUS CHRIST.