Floating Kingdom Hall

I had a chance to visit our floating Kingdom Hall a few days ago.  The city in which I live (Granada) has a large lake called Lake Granada.  Throughout the lake there are over 300 small islands created by a now inactive volcano.  We take a small power boat across the lake and stop where ever there are people.  From there, we climb up and talk to them.  There are several bibles being conducted in the islands and I came home with a book bag full of plantains and bananas from grateful people :-). The brother who organizes the island ministry explained to me that the witnesses have only been to the far side of the islands 3 times in the history of the Witnesses.  They went back 3 months ago after last having visited 8 years ago.  During the visit 8 years ago, there was one particular house where no one was home so the Witnesses left a book called, "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" which tells about Jesus' life.  On the trip 3 months ago, they were able to meet the man who lived in the house.  He was excited and frustrated when he realized these were the people who had left the book 8 years ago.  He ran and got the book which was now tattered and worn.  It had been read so much that the cover had fallen off and the book had been stitched back together.  He was frustrated because he wanted to know how they could leave something so wonderful causing him to have so many unanswered questions and then not return for so long.  He had lots of questions and wanted to know a definite time they would return so that he could gather all of his family and friends to finally have their bible questions answered.  Unfortunately, they were unable to tell him when they would be able to get that far back into the islands again.   While we have a small boat to get to the islands, gas can can cost upwards of $50 to go that far out which is a ton here.  The harvest is great but the workers are few :-( Matt 9:37.  With Jehovah's spirit we'll get his work done!

Ready to have some fun?!

Leaving the dock

Volcanoes all around

Are we there yet??!

It got really hot so umbrellas came in handy.

Brothers trying to look cool :-)

Lady rowing home. 

The water is very clean but looks green because of the volcanic rock.

More Volcanos

There's a house ahead!   I was excited to see howler monkeys sleeping in the trees here.  We didn't expect for them to be down from the volcano yet since the mangos are not yet ripe.  I'll try to get a photo of them next time.

We pulled ashore to talk to a lady washing clothes in the lake.

Taking a break to eat lunch before setting up for bible study.

This is the floating kingdom hall.  A man is nice enough to let us dock it at his property.  When he is not home, he allows us to have the meeting there on his island which is what we did on this day.

This is the island on which we had the meeting.  It looks big here but it is no larger than the property of my Kingdom Hall in Georgia; maybe smaller.

The man's house on the island.

Setting up for the meeting.

Check out our sound system- it will fit in the palm of your hand :-).  The brother just hooks up his ipod to it so we can sing the songs.   I just noticed how the rays of the sun are beaming on the platform. Interesting...

Sorry this is so fuzzy.  My camera started to act up.  This is everyone gathered for bible study.