1955 yearbook - Watchtower Archive

232 Yearbook
to belong to the New World family. Even persons who
before knew nothing about the work are now keenly
interested in learning about it."
The new arrangement for vacation pioneers has been
wonderful for those who had not been able to pioneer
before. So far this year twenty publishers have become
vacation pioneers, the highest number we have ever
had. Five of these twenty have now further expanded
their ministry by becoming regular pioneers.
We have a great amount of unassigned rural terri·
tory in the interior of the country, so we wrote circular
letters to all the congregations and pioneers and sent
them a list of these territories. Many responded to
this call. One pioneer sister has a group of islands 10'
cated in the Gulf of Panama for a territory assignment.
After four months there she had helped eight new
publishers to participate in the Kingdom service.
In one of the units in Panama City a publisher bought
a station wagon to be used by that unit to work in the
territory. Twice each week a group of about eight from
that unit goes out in the service, and they have worked
about sixty miles of territory, composed of about a
dozen small towns, with great success. In one of these
towns they met an interested person who had charge
of collecting money to build a Catholic church. Several
years ago he had delivered the sum of $6,000 to the
local priest for its construction, but today they have
just eight concrete pillars standing forlornly in the
town square to show for the $6,000. As a result he is no
longer a Catholic and many people in the town are get·
ting their eyes open because of the priest's perfidy.
PARAGUAY
Though there has been opposition, Jehovah's
witnesses have moved ahead in Paraguay. Brother
Henschel visited Paraguay last year and, at
the time, opposition was so strong that a hall
could not be obtained, but this did not stop the
delivery of the public talk. The Catholic Church
has not let up since then, believing they can break
down the organization of Jehovah's witnesses,
but the harder they work the more people of
good will leave their organization and ally themselves
with the New World society. The branch
servant gives us some very interesting experiences
about what is going on in Paraguay.