Professor Adams
Race and Ethnicity- Soc 252
Final Project
The Jehovah Witness and Seventh Day Adventists
One of the services I attended were the Jehovah Witness and why I had decided to attend one of their services is because it’s a well known religious group but who they really are and what they stand for is what many people may not know. According to Knox, the Jehovah Witnesses began in Pennsylvania in the 1870’s and it started off with a small group of people who were studying the bible, the leader and founder of the bible study group was Charles Taze Russell and they started off as a small group but with time passing many people came to join them, they then decided to name themselves the Jehovah Witnesses (Knox 2011). …show more content…
The jehovah witnesses are a strong community, they talked about the reason they knock on doors, they believe that the end is near and knocking on the door is their desperation to save everyone, only those of part of the jehovah witnesses are seen as being the only saviours. During their service songs were sung about the kingdom of Jehovah and short videos were shown. The Jehovah Witnesses are believers in everyone being equal, they suffer from prejudice, discrimination and persecution, all they want is …show more content…
The Seventh Day adventists began in 1863 and they try not to eat much meat because of what the bible says about meat causing some to be vegetarian (Sanchez, Gelabert, Bobadilla, Del Valle). When I walked into their church some said “Happy Saturday” to me. Their place of worship felt comfortable and approachable it was painted a nice white color with a high altar and they were benches with books of the songs and copies of the bible. The pastor came to greet me and during the service he announced how happy they were that they had a visitor and everyone welcomed me out