My parents turned away from religion when I was six years old. My mother and I went to several churches before joining the Church without Walls when I was in middle school, my father never was interested in religion again. After graduating high school, I decided not to be a part of any type of religion also, maybe because of the research my father shared with me that helped me with this decision. I am not a spiritual person; nevertheless, I am really interested in why some people are strong in their faith in regards to their religion. In my World Religion Course, I was asked to visit a place of worship. I decided to visit a place of worship that my parents abandon for two reasons. The first reason, I wondered how my parents can abandon
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The Kingdom Hall is a single-story building. The sign is close to the road in front of the building that says “Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the sign is in three languages, English, Spanish and Vietnamese. The services are called meetings. The colors of the building are neutral, mostly earth tone; the landscape is nice but also low key. When arriving there were no greeters meeting us at the front door, not like the traditional churches I attended in the past. The entrance was marble floor. There were boxes at the entry that were labelled contribution. The atrium had two counters with two males standing behind the counters. On the walls of the atrium there were three information boards in three different languages. The information boards consist of different type schedules. The single thing that interested me is a schedule with different names on it; these people were scheduled to perform different times on the month, mostly on Tuesday. I asked my cousin about the schedule, she stated that everyone that is baptized have to give talks to the audience. The male will stand on the podium and address the audience, the females will perform skits with each other. There are two small conference rooms in the back of the hall, these rooms are for the overflow of the
The Kingdom Hall is a single-story building. The sign is close to the road in front of the building that says “Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the sign is in three languages, English, Spanish and Vietnamese. The services are called meetings. The colors of the building are neutral, mostly earth tone; the landscape is nice but also low key. When arriving there were no greeters meeting us at the front door, not like the traditional churches I attended in the past. The entrance was marble floor. There were boxes at the entry that were labelled contribution. The atrium had two counters with two males standing behind the counters. On the walls of the atrium there were three information boards in three different languages. The information boards consist of different type schedules. The single thing that interested me is a schedule with different names on it; these people were scheduled to perform different times on the month, mostly on Tuesday. I asked my cousin about the schedule, she stated that everyone that is baptized have to give talks to the audience. The male will stand on the podium and address the audience, the females will perform skits with each other. There are two small conference rooms in the back of the hall, these rooms are for the overflow of the