Jehovah's Witness convention in Billings draws more than 5,000

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Jun 10 BILLINGS - Safeguard your heart. That's the theme for nearly 400 Jehovah's Witness conventions around the world, including here in Billings.

The three-day annual district convention finished Sunday at MetraPark's Rimrock Auto Arena.

An estimate between 5,000 and 5,500 showed up for each of the days.

People from Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota come out to the convention in Billings.

"The theme is definitely to be the spiritual enlightenment that we we get," said Joe Kurkowski, overseer of the Jehovah's news service. "But just a nice side point here, is you get to have the friendship and companionship of all the other brothers and sisters.and the surrounding congregations."

More people came to the convention in Billings this year because of the shortage of hotel rooms for the convention Bismark, due to the oil boom.