WATCHTOWER BIBLE SCHOOL OF GILEAD
Purpose: Graduates may be assigned as traveling overseers, as field missionaries, or as Bethelites. By putting their training to good use, graduates help to strengthen and stabilize the field and branch organization.
Duration: Five months.
Location: Watchtower Educational Center, Patterson, New York.
Gilead class—Patterson, New York
Enrollment: Married couples, single brothers, and single sisters, who are already serving in some form of special full-time service. Field missionaries who were not previously graduates of Gilead, as well as special pioneers, Bethelites, or traveling overseers and their wives, may be invited by their Branch Committee to apply. Applicants must speak and write English.
Benefits: Lade and Monique, a married couple from the United States who have been in their assignment for several years, offer the following comments:
“Gilead school prepared us to go anywhere in the world, roll up our sleeves, and work with our dear brothers,” says Lade.
Monique adds: “As I apply what I’ve learned from God’s Word, I find great joy in my assignment. I see that joy as proof of Jehovah’s love.”