And_Ray
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Urgent prayers needed.
We have our RC scheduled for 18th of August in a rented hall. And just few days ago the officials from the hall decided to cancel on our contract and at the moment we are left with no convention venue. There will be a final meeting tomorrow with the officials from the hall when we will know for sure if we can use the venue. The last few days we had the invitation campaign on hold, because we weren't sure if we will have a convention taking place at that time, but from today on, the branch committee decided to act in faith and we were encouraged to invite the public to the convention, even thought we don't know if we will have a convention at all.
To make things worse, this is the first Romany RC in Macedonia, and romany brother are coming from all over Europe. It will be like mini - special convention. We are expecting about 2000 guests. Many of them have booked a hotel and things like that.
Also, many local brothers have already asked for a work holiday on that specific date, since we were told about it 3-4 months ago.
We have about 12 hours left from the moment I'm posting this, until we know the decision from the hall officials, so please pray specifically that we get approval to use the rented hall for the RC as we we're planning all along.-
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I think that happened to our brothers at some point in the 40's? or 50's? in the US, the building was cancelled and the convention had to be held out of doors. Of course, it's much nicer to be inside no matter what the weather is, and with the new A/V equipment, being outside has its own risks. Jehovah will make sure all of our brothers get the needed spiritual food, and we are all waiting prayerfully to see how he maneuvers things for you.
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Ok. Things are starting to unfold.
We WILL have our convention on the same date as planned! That's only thanks to the many many prayers from all the brothers.
However, we will not use the planned venue, we will not even be in the same city.
We will have the convention in two separate locations, both about 45km away from the originally planned city.
The branch organized a bus to and from the convention venues from the city where the conventions was supposed to be.
The condition of the new venues is not great... so it will require extraordinary efforts to clean them and make them suitable for the convention. Also, there won't be air condition in the hall, and the temperatures these days is around 38C. or 100F.
It will require many more sacrifices for everyone to attend this convention. It's like a slap on the face, not to take our conventions for granted.
All in all, everything should work out good, bring glory to Jehovah in two cities that never before hosted our convention, and this will be of a great encouragement to all the brothers and sisters in my country.
I also heard that a video team will be present on our convention and they will be recording inserts for JW Broadcasting.
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