page_title: Jehovah's Witnesses
section_title: Door-to-door work
hierarchical_section_title: Jehovah's Witnesses / What they do / Door-to-door work
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Typische Predigtarbeit der Zeugen Jehovas English: Typical preaching work of Jehovah's Witnesses Português: Trabalho de pregação típico das Testemunhas de Jeová
context_page_description: Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious group with more than eight million members around the world. They believe God, who they call Jehovah, will end crime, violence, sickness and death by destroying all wickedness in the world. They say that God's Kingdom will restore God's original purpose for the Earth: bringing about peace for all humans who live by Bible standards.
  Their beliefs are based solely upon the Bible. These beliefs were taught by Charles Taze Russell, a preacher who started a Bible study group in Pennsylvania in 1876. The goal of Russell and other Bible Students, as the group was then known, was to promote the teachings of Jesus Christ and to follow the practices of the first-century Christian congregation. Since Jesus is the Founder of Christianity, they view him as the founder of their organization.—Colossians 1:18-20. They later started publishing a religious magazine called The Watchtower.
  Some of their beliefs, especially about who God is and what his plans are for humans and the earth, are different from what is taught in most Christian churches.
context_section_description: Jehovah's Witnesses are best known for their door-to-door preaching. They believe Jesus ordered them at Matthew 28:19 to "go make disciples of all the nations", warning people that the day of God's judgement, or Armageddon, will happen soon. Jehovah's Witnesses believe their preaching is a fulfillment of a prophecy at Matthew 24:14, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." All Witnesses are told to spend as much time as they can in public preaching work, usually offering The Watchtower and other Watch Tower Society publications. Since the Internet, Jehovah's Witnesses also preach online. They teach people their beliefs about Jehovah and his plans for the earth. Members are asked to give a monthly written report on how much time they have spent publicly preaching.
caption: Jehovah's Witnesses preaching house to house in Lisbon, Portugal.
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