1950 "Theocracy's Increase" District Assembly
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-1-1950 pages
361-365)
DAY 1 July 30, 1950
DAY'S THEME:Gilead Graduation Day
MORNING
Music
(RELEASE: "Songs to Jehovah's Praise" (book))
9:25 Music 9:30 Song 10:00 Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God A.H. McMillan 10:30 Chairman's Address: Grant Suiter RELEASE: Postcards of the Society's buildings 12:05 Song
AFTERNOON
79,247
1:20 Song
1:30 15th class of Gilead Graduation
The Way of Success Nathan Knorr
Gilead Graduation Diploma Presentation to Students
EVENING
111,795 8:00 Gilead Students Express Themselves Nathan Knorr
DAY 2 July 31, 1950
DAY'S THEME: Jehovah's Undeserved Kindness Day
MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music Reports from : Argentina South Africa Canada Mexico T. J. Sullivan then spoke on Psalm 107:23-31, 4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
Blessed Are the Merciful Lyman A Swingle
Laying Aside Every Weight Lyle E Reusch
Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News Hayden Covington
9:05 Song and Prayer
DAY 3 August 1, 1950
DAY'S THEME: Theocratic Devotion Day
MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
9:30
Field Service
AFTERNOON
147,135
1:30 Song Prayer and
Firsthand reports on the expansion of The Theocracy in
postwar Germany and in countries behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe
The Increase of His Government Nathan H Knorr
RELEASE: 32-page Watchtower magazine
EVENING
6:30 Music 6:35 Song and The Service Meeting was built around the convention’s theme, increase. Then followed four practical demonstrations in overcoming objections at the door through refutation. Evolution versus The New World Colin D. Quackenbush (RELEASE: Evolution versus The New World(booklet)) 9:05 Song and Prayer
DAY 4 August 2, 195
DAY'S THEME: PREACH THE WORD
MORNING 9:00
AFTERNOON
1:30 Song Prayer and Reports From:
the British Isles and from Cuba
3:30 Turning to the Peoples a Pure Language Nathan Knorr
(RELEASE: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures
4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music 6:35 Song 7:00 Scholarly discussion of the ancient Greek language Fred W Franz 9:00 Song 53 and Prayer
DAY 5 August 3, 1950
DAY'S THEME: Missionary Day
MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
9:30 Baptism
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music 1:45 Song No. 51, Prayer Missionary Reports 4:35 Song
DAY 6 August ,4 1950
DAY'S THEME: Branch Day
MORNING
Reports from the Branch servants
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music 1:45 Song No. 109, Prayer Reports from the Branch servants Regret and Protest by American Convention Hosts over Religious Discrimination Against Visiting Witnesses of Jehovah Nathan H Knorr 4:35 Song
EVENING
173,079
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
Reports from the Branch servants
Song and Prayer
DAY 7 August 5, 1950
DAY'S THEME: Knowledge of God Day
MORNING
9:10 Music and Song 9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music 1:45 Song Prayer and Saturday afternoon and evening conventioners had the opportunity of hearing how radio station WBBR, the printing plant and office, the Brooklyn Bethel, and the Bible School of Gilead are being used for the preaching work that is spreading knowledge of The Theocracy to the ends of the earth. 4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music 6:35 Song Taking In Life-giving Knowledge Nathan H Knorr RELEASE: This Means Everlasting Life(book) New Systems of Things Fred W Franz 9:05 Song and Prayer
DAY 8 August 6, 1950
DAY'S THEME: New World Living Day
MORNING
9:00 Music and Song 9:10 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer Pioneer experiences R.L. Anderson 12:05 Song
AFTERNOON
123,707
2:15 Music
4:00 Can You Live Forever in Happiness on Earth? Nathan Knorr
RELEASE: Can You Live Forever in Happiness on Earth? (booklet)
Behind the scenes work on the convention J.O. Groh & Clarence Newcomb 4:45 Closing Remarks: Droop Not Your Hands Nathan Knorr 6:00 Song and Prayer