Currently active witnesses in the original city congregation number 105. This does not include some 60 to 70 Hispanic witnesses who meet as a separate congregation in the same Bridge Road space. In 1985, the Amherst congregation split off and constructed a Kingdom Hall there. Jehovah's Witnesses began as a Bible study group in Allegheny, Pa., in 1870s. All witnesses are considered ministers in a denomination that does not usually have paid clergy.
Members address one another as brothers and sisters.
Jehovah's Witnesses are Christian although they do not, as most Christians do, believe that Jesus was both God and man, explained Zinsmeister. The Pentecostal Movement. Another major global religious phenomenon, the Pentecostal movement has become in recent years another important element in the tapestry of religious life in the area. The Cornerstone Chapel makes space available each week for a Latino Pentecostal group to meet there. We are like a family.