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Faith
Jehovah’s Witnesses going door-to-door in closed-door world
Like any group of spirited salesmen, this crew swaps stories about the big scores, those times when people couldn’t wait to buy what they were selling.
Mary, left, and Jonathan Burns, Pinellas Park, both Jehovah Witnesses, share some Bible verses and literature with Pinellas Park resident Leslie Pevey, center, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Burns have stopped several times to share Bible verses and information with Pevey over the past six months. The Witnesses fully acknowledge they are the last of a thinning breed: door-to-door, face-to-face salesmen, shoe-leather agents in a guarded age when technology, social media and cyber-dependence are making more and more transactions devoid of human contact.
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