The WTS is sure putting out a LOT of counter media pieces this summer. Fluff pieces. I have read several about the JWs wonderful volunteer cleaning at several venues and blah, blah blah...
Here is one from the Northern Ontario convention in Sault Ste. Marie:
2300 Jehovah's Witnesses and one with an incredible gift (13 photos)
For the first time in over 20 years the Northern Ontario Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses was held in the Sault this weekend and a couple of special gift-givers were in attendance.
Colleen Cyrenne says her 24 year-old son Jacques Vaillancourt has been able to accomplish amazing things thanks to being involved in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The mother and son came up from Sheguiandah on Manitoulin Island this weekend to gather with around 2300 other religious followers at the Essar Centre for the 2016 Northern Ontario Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
36 congregations from as far west as Thunder Bay and as east as North Bay came to attend the regions biggest annual gathering of Jehovah's Witnesses.
It was the first time in over twenty years the conference was held in Sault Ste. Marie.
Cyrenne described her son as being severely autistic but that the structure of their religious faith - going to conventions, studying the bible, doing 70 hours of faith work a month, etc. - has allowed him to excel in many ways.
Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a developmental disorder with a set of symptoms that hurt the individual’s ability to function socially, at school or work, or other areas of life.
How profoundly that individual is affected by those symptoms dictates how severe the disorder is in that individual.
At the weekend convention, Vaillancourt handed out 225 cut-out, hand-drawn pictures of “good-example Bible figures” and his mother handed out hundreds of fabric and plastic flowers attached to clips, so many she lost count.
The figures Vaillancourt drew are meant to help remind people of the many good teachings in the bible and Cyrenne's flowers are a loving gift.
“I just make them until I can’t make them anymore,” said Cyrenne, who has been doing it for so many years she doesn’t know how long.The young man, whose disorder is obvious through conversation, goes door-to-door, often on his own, spreading the religion’s message and even conducts bible study groups with young children.
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