Memorial 2011





Our speaker Jonathan Vargas, Erick and I, and Jonathan's sister Michelle


Our Memorial this year was exciting, as I am sure it was for all of you wherever you may be.  Our congregation of Muelle currently has 22 publishers, and we had an attendance of 94!  So that is more than 4 times the number of publishers.  Since we always have such great attendance at our public meetings anyway, (averaging about 60), we didn't quite know how many to expect.  But we were pleased with 94.  Of those 94, 14 were our students or invitees.  There were also about 4 families composed of 12 people that were present because of our encouragement or help getting reactivated.  Muelle isn't like other places where the work has been established for years, and thus, we don't have a lot of inactive ones that come out of the woodwork for Memorial only.   Here are some of our attendees:

My return visit Darling and her husband



Joycie and Nicole



Students Hanniah (left), Elizabeth (right) and her little sister (center)



Students Adrian (father), Andrey and Elki (children)



Anie, the congregation's live doll
Such a cutie, a student's daughter



Student Doña Bernardina "Nana"
We pick her up for all the meetings.
She is paralyzed on one side from a stroke.




We did our best to decorate everything pretty, "tropical style"



We had about 5 of these arrangements on the posts of the porch, but by evening they were suffering from the heat!





Extra seating on the lawn along with an Italian restaurant style string of light bulbs to help with lighting



 

Small arrangement with ginger flowers and tropical leaves for the literature counter



The main auditorium was pretty full



A video of our meeting area




Yours truly