Religious groups prepare for busy in-person services as pandemic improves

April 1, 2022

For more than two years, Jehovah's Witnesses congregations have held their bi-weekly meetings virtually rather than at Kingdom Halls, but that is changing this week as they return to in-person worship for the first time since the start of the pandemic. 

"Over the past couple of years, it's been a challenge to maintain that closeness, so I really look forward to greeting everyone again," Randall Larson, a Jehovah's Witness who lives in Sun Prairie, said. "This has been a very exciting time when we received word that we will be going back in person. [There is] some nervousness because we've been by ourselves for a couple of years, but really exciting."

The return has been in the works for a while, but it was postponed by new waves of COVID-19, according to Jehovah's Witnesses spokesperson Aaron Purvis. 

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