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The community I chose is Jehovah's Witnesses. Most if not all of my friends are witnesses and whenever i'm around them I always am at my happiest. We are a religious organization that can be found in many different countries, in fact we have the most available languages for our bible throughout the world.

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Jehovah's Witnesses have gone through a lot of persecution throughout history, but we often get strengthened by the examples others have shown in hard times. So to scale it down to one statement, the hard times witnesses have gone through in the past gives us an example we can look to, and it strengthens us.

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Environment is something that hasn't really shaped our community. Although I will say, in places such as russian our work has been put under ban. As it has in many places throughout history. The picture is of a brother imprisoned for his faith in russia.

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The bible says to not prioritize money, rather the more important things in life. While we do work and earn enough to support us and our families. We don't go out of the way to gain greater education and/or a higher paying job as these usually take up more time for other things such as our ministry and family time. This makes us stand out, especially in the U.S or capitalism, we also are a non-profit organization. This is one of the reasons I decided to go to pcc rather than OSU or Oregon Uni. The money we use for construction and disaster relief is due to the donations from volunteers (anybody can). We follow the bible as closely as possible so we often stand out in our economy. We used to charge money for our literature. But after our understanding of the bible changed, our literature is now completely free and you can find it online. Most of the money our organization spends is on construction and/or disaster relief. The picture above is us helping our brothers and sisters by giving out food and resources in a place struck by disaster.

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Throughout history Jehovah's Witnesses values and perspective have rarely changed, and if they have its almost always due to our understanding of something in the bible changing. Or us learning the actual meaning of bible teachings. Its something I love about JW, because we could go back to 1884 and talk all day with the founder of the watchtower society; brother Charles Russell. We would have almost all the same views, about Jesus and Jehovah. But being in the organization can definitely change your view on social change. We stay neutral in government issues or debates, just as the bible told us to at John 17:16.

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Jehovah's Witnesses have faced much inequality throughout history. But some recent examples Include Nazi Germany, where we were put in camps along with many others, killed and persecuted. I already made a padlet on this so I wont get too much into it. Another example is super recent, which was the banning of our meetings and service in russia, they even raided and arrested many brothers over there. I remember all of us in our hall writing letters to the russian government to show mercy to our brothers and sisters over there. Despite the persecution of our religion we have always remained strong have not stopped our work. It is encouraging when we here that a brother has been released from prison in russia or in other places in the world. And we pray for our friends that have been imprisoned or persecuted. Like I said earlier it's not just russia that has banned or restricted our work, many places have or have tried too. Including the USA, in some cases have gone to the supreme court. The picture above is of two brothers who were released from prison, along with there wives who have waited a long time to see them again.