{"id":136930,"date":"2026-03-13T01:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136930\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:28:18","slug":"jehovahs-witness-convention-returns-to-reading-for-first-time-since-2019-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136930\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah&#8217;s Witness convention returns to Reading for first time since 2019 | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; For the first time since 2019, The Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Convention is back in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Friday was the start of three weekends of conventions at the Santander Arena in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>About 3,000 people were on hand for the day&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>Many in attendance are from Berks County, the Lehigh Valley and central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the convention was held in-person since organizers moved to a virtual format during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is &#8220;Exercise Patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The convention continues through Sunday, and more sessions are planned over the next two weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; For the first time since 2019, The Jehovah&#8217;s Witness Convention is back in Berks County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63037,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-136930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-jehovah","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}