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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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Ordinarily given to concerts, conventions, exhibitions and beer parties, the Auditorium was bustling from top to basement with a religious conclave of 10,000 pious souls. In the big auditorium proper were folding chairs, loudspeakers and a banner, FOR JEHOVAH AND FOR GIDEON. Nearby was a temporary hospital staffed by voluntary nurses and a big rawboned country doctor. Through the three floors surged unpowdered women of all ages, many carrying children; coatless young men; sober old men; Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and “house-cars” (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5¢), beef stew (20¢), buttermilk (5¢), alfalfa tea (5¢) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were “Jehovah’s Witnesses”—otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford. Big, blue-eyed Judge Rutherford was born on a Missouri farm, practiced law, became a circuit judge, accompanied William Jennings Bryan in his first Presidential campaign because he believed that zealous Presbyterian was “appointed by God to straighten out the problems of the world.” In 1916 the Judge succeeded the late Charles Taze Russell of Brooklyn, founder-president in 1878 of the Bible Students. This organization now claims 2,500,000 followers who in 60 languages in 34 nations read its pamphlets and its journals, Watch Tower and Golden Age. By a curious telescoping of events and ideas, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies govern all earthly events. They, under Judge Rutherford’s leadership, distrust formalized religion, lump clergymen with financiers, politicians, the League of Nations and Lucifer, the last of whom they believe to be actively at large. In their scrutinies of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have concluded that three “cosmos” divide history. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914\. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they are more concerned with Judge Rutherford’s prophecy that a universal war is looming. (And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground—Jeremiah, 25:33.) As to when the universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928\. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME, March 31, 1930). Jehovah’s Witnesses call themselves “remnants” (“unworthy strivers after the kingdom of the Lord”), “Jonadabs” (“workers in the Lord’s vineyard”), “pioneers” (those who have dropped all other work except that of Jehovah), and “publishers” (those who do Jehovah’s work along with their own). Last Sunday, remnants, Jonadabs, pioneers and publishers, to say nothing of the thousands of plain Bible Students, listened bug-eyed in Washington Auditorium to a speech by Judge Rutherford broadcast and rebroadcast to the ends of the earth by radio, wire and wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000\. They applauded lustily when Judge Rutherford referred to the Roman Catholic Church as a “foreign foe” whose head had ordered that Jehovah’s Witnesses be crushed; when he declared that “Jehovah has expressly declared the League of Nations a fraud and a snare and it shall be destroyed”; when he reminded them that though Satan’s time on earth is up, he “refuses to get out” and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford’s rambling remarks, delivered in a clear voice with a trace of Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. “My language.” said the Judge, “is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea.” Thereupon he produced from Scripture a series of lurid pictures of plagues, storms, flashings of fire, quenchings of sun, moon and stars, and a rain of blocks of ice. “That,” concluded Judge Rutherford, “will convince them that Jehovah is doing the fighting.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820722/religion-jehovahs-witness/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820722/religion-jehovahs-witness/"},"headline":"Religion: Jehovah's Witness","datePublished":"1935-06-10T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-04T04:08:05.759Z","description":"''Brother Maze, please leave your address here.\" \"Sister Potes and Sister Mokus would like places in a car going near Eastview, La.\" \"Brother Sovuss has a nice house-car...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6820722/religion-jehovahs-witness/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6820722/religion-jehovahs-witness/","name":"Religion: Jehovah's Witness"}}]}] ```