PITTSBURGH — The Meredith family is one of the of more than 5,500 Jehovah’s Witnesses in southwestern Pennsylvania who will be going back to their trademark door-to-door ministry Sept. 1.
“I missed it very much during the pandemic because it was just part of our daily life, usually, and so now going back it’s just very exciting,” Sadie Meredith said.
“I’m really excited to go back because like Sadie said it was part of our daily life,” Chelsea Meredith added.
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This comes after a 30-month hiatus of door-knocking because of the pandemic, during which they checked in on their neighbors through phone calls and letters, but now they will be meeting people face-to-face again.
“And the message that we have and are offering people is just a message of hope and today with the world that we live in and with the climate that we’re a part of and with everybody going through this pandemic that we have that we never experienced before, have a message of hope from the Bible can be of great comfort to people,” Ty Meredith said.
The U.S. spokesperson for Witnesses, Robert Hendriks, says this is a worldwide transition and those going out into communities will respect people’s concerns about COVID-19.
“But those that that we knock on their door want to also respect their needs. We’ll be very careful to distance. We’ll be very careful to address their needs,” Hendriks said.
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