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Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ecuador

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2016 Jehovah’s Witness average publishers: 88,636. Congregations: 1036. Baptisms: 3708. Memorial attendance: 274,594. Preaching hours: 25.2 million

Early History: 1930s–1940s

Fifteen thousand copies of the booklet The Kingdom, the Hope of the World were distributed in Ecuador in 1932, but no congregation was established (Proclaimers 1993). Theodore Laguna and another Witness preached for 10 months in Ecuador in 1935 before traveling on to Chile (Yearbook 1989).

The first congregations were organized with the arrival of missionaries trained at the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead after World War II. In 1946, missionaries Thomas and Mary Klingensmith and Walter and Willmetta Pemberton arrived in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and subsequently traveled to the capital, Quito.

Watch Tower Society president Nathan Knorr and his secretary Milton Henschel visited Ecuador in March 1949. Eighty-two attended the talk “It Is Later Than You Think!” in Quito, and 280 attended in Guayaquil; many...

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  • Harris H (2010) Serving in a time of marvelous expansion. Watchtower, 15 September, pp 3–7

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  • They Offered Themselves Willingly – In Ecuador (2012) Watchtower, 15 July, pp 3–5

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  • (1989) “Ecuador”, 1989 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Brooklyn, New York, pp 198–255

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  • (1993) Jehovah’s Witnesses – Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Brooklyn, New York, 750p

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  • 2016 Service year report of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide, in 2017 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brooklyn, New York, pp 178–186

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Stewart, D.G. (2018). Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ecuador. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_448-1

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