Read more: 14,000 members in Louisiana return to door-knocking, a national staple of the denomination

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly and Victor Batiz depart a residence in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly and Victor Batiz, left, chat with staff of Norma's Sweet Bakery on Bienville Street in New Orleans during a break for lunch on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. 

Jehovah's Witness Lessly Batiz eyes the next house where she and her husband, Victor, plan to knock on the door in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Jehovah's Witness Victor Batiz hands reading material to people standing on a sidewalk on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Jehovah's Witness Lessly Batiz, right, hands a card with a Jehovah's Witness website link to Gustavo Vanejas, a clerk at Norma's Sweet Bakery on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.

Jehovah's Witness Lessly Batiz knocks on doors on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly and Victor Batiz, left, stop to chat with Deborah Johnson who was walking to a grocery store on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly, right, and Victor Batiz, center, stop to talk to a man who was on his way to work from Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly Batiz, center, and her husband, Victor, walk down the front steps on one side of a double and then up the other side as they knock on doors on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jehovah's Witnesses Lessly and Victor Batiz stop to chat with Deborah Johnson, center, who was walking to a grocery store on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Jehovah's Witnesses have resumed knocking on doors to spread their message, after a 30-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jehovah's Witness Victor Batiz, left, shakes the hand of Arelly Perdomo, whom he met outside Norma's Sweet Bakery on Bienville Street in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Perdomo is also a Jehovah's Witness, and the two men met for the first time while walking into the store for lunch.

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