Service Meeting Schedule
Week Starting June 11
10 min: Local announcements. Selected Announcements from Our Kingdom Ministry. Encourage everyone to view the video Jehovah’s Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault in preparation for the discussion at the Service Meeting the week of June 25.
15 min: “Keep ‘Doing What Is Fine.’” An encouraging Scriptural talk by an elder.
20 min: “Reach the Heart of Your Student.”a Include practical suggestions on how to help new ones develop faith and love in their hearts for Jehovah and Jesus. Use key points in the July 15, 1999, Watchtower, page 14, paragraphs 18-20.
Song 184 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting June 18
5 min: Local announcements. Accounts report.
10 min: Responding to Potential Conversation Stoppers. Audience discussion. Review “Comments” in Reasoning book, pages 15-16. From pages 16-20, select some objections encountered in your territory. Invite audience to relate which responses work well for them and why.
30 min: “Can You Make Yourself Available?” Encouraging talk interspersed with comments from the audience in answer to prepared questions on paragraphs 13 and 18-24. Encourage parents to help their children to consider Bethel service as a career. Recommend that families study this insert together in their family study.
Song 197 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting June 25
15 min: Local announcements. Review literature offer for July and August. Highlight two brochures that are in stock locally. Have well-prepared demonstrations of how to offer them in the ministry. For suggested presentations, see the back page of the July and August 1995 through 1998 issues of Our Kingdom Ministry.
30 min: “I Stand Firm! I Stand Firm! I Stand Firm!” Audience discussion of the Stand Firm video, using the questions in paragraph 2. Then consider paragraphs 3-4. Read the announcement on page 7 that mentions the Classroom Edition of the Stand Firm video for educators. Conclude with the experience in the November 22, 1999, Awake!, page 31. In August we will review the video The New World Society in Action.
Song 29 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting July 2
13 min: Local announcements. Remind publishers to turn in field service reports for June. Review the box “Are Any Yearbooks Missing From Your Library?” Share brief excerpts of experiences from the Yearbooks for 1986, 1987, and 1990 to 2000 to illustrate the value of their contents. Encourage all who do not have these Yearbooks in their personal library to order them while supplies last.
15 min: Youths—Be Wise in Choosing Your Career. This is the first of three Service Meeting parts that will review Scriptural principles related to supplemental education. Some Christian youths are pursuing secular careers through higher education, which is having a negative impact on their spirituality. This part is a discussion between two parents and their teenage son or daughter. The youth is at a point where a serious decision needs to be made about future goals. Although some may want to pursue financial advantages, prestige, or comforts of life, the family examine the Bible to see what it recommends. (See Young People Ask, pages 174-5; The Watchtower, August 15, 1997, page 21, and September 1, 1999, pages 19-21, paragraphs 1-3 and 5-6.) The youth agrees that it is wise to pursue a course in life that will serve him or her well in achieving theocratic goals to advance Kingdom interests.
17 min: “Be Alert to Finding Deaf People in Your Territory.”b If statistics are available, mention how many deaf people are located in your congregation territory. Review the section “Locating individuals who speak another language” in the October 15, 1998, letter to all congregations in the United States. Relate the experience in the February 1998 Our Kingdom Ministry, page 3, paragraph 7.
Song 32 and concluding prayer.
[Footnotes]
a Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
b Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.