1968 "GOOD NEWS for ALL NATIONS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 11-1-68 pages 665-671, 11-8-68 A)

(Notice how, prior to 1978, there was no mid-session song, only announcements.)
(Notice too how, prior to 1973, evening sessions were still held.)
(Song numbers are from the 1966 songbook, "Singing and Accompanying Yourselves
 with Music in your Hearts.")
 
     
 

DAY 1

AFTERNOON

 
 1:40 Music
 1:45 Song No. 36, Prayer and Experiences
 2:00 Address of Welcome:
      The "Good News" Has Brought Us Together
 2:15 Address by Chairman:
      Appreciating What God Has Done for Us

      ANNOUNCEMENTS

 3:05 DRAMA: What Are YOU Doing with Your Life?
 4:35 Song No. 63

EVENING

 6:30 Music
 6:35 Song No. 55 and Experiences

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 7:05 DRAMA: What Young Folks Are doing in the Ministry
Speaking DRAMA:
 9:05 Song No. 73 and Prayer

 
 
     
 

DAY 2

MORNING

 
 8:45 Song No. 24, Prayer and Comments on Day's Text
 9:00 Baptisms in Response to the "Good News"
 9:30 To Baptism and to the Field

AFTERNOON

 1:40 Music
 1:45 Song No. 106, Prayer and Experiences
 2:00 A Yoke That Is Heavy and One That Is Light
 2:30 Are You Training Now for the Trials Ahead?
(See WT 2-15-71 Pages 108-114)
 3:00 Where More Preachers of the "Good News" Are Needed

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 3:35 Keynote Address:
The "Good News" of a World Without False Religion
      (See WT 11-1-68 pages 677-691)
      (RELEASE: The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life  (book))
      

 
4:35 Song No. 66

EVENING

 6:30 Music
 6:35 Song No. 25 and Experiences
 7:00 Spreading the Truth That Leads to Eternal Life

      ANNOUNCEMENTS

 8:05 Uniting the Divided Household
 9:05 Song No. 45 and Prayer
 

    		
     
  

  

     
     
     
  

  

     
    
    

    
DAY 3 

    
    
MORNING

    
 9:10 Music and Song No. 89
 9:15 Comments on Day's Text and Prayer
 9:30 To the Field


    
AFTERNOON

    
 1:40 Music
 1:45 Song No. 70, Prayer and Experiences
 2:00 'More Than All Else, Safeguard Your Heart'
 2:30 Trained to Distinguish Both Right and Wrong
  
      ANNOUNCEMENTS

 3:35 The Happiness of the "Nation Whose God is Jehovah"
      (See WT 11-15-68 Pages 684-689)
 4:35 Song No. 29


    
EVENING

    
 6:30 Music
 6:35 Song No. 7 and Experiences

      ANNOUNCEMENTS

 7:05 DRAMA: Jehovah's Way the Way of Victory
Jephthah 
 9:05 Song No. 57 and Prayer	

    
 

    
 

     
  

  

     
     
     
  

  

     
    
    

    
DAY 4 Sunday July 28, 1968

    
    
MORNING

    
 9:00 Music 
 9:10 Song No. 105, Prayer and Comments on Day's Text
 9:30 Building One Another Up
10:00 Pursue the Things Making For Peace
10:30 Pay More than the Usual Attention

      ANNOUNCEMENTS

11:05 DRAMA: Do You Make Yourself Available?	(Jephthah's daughter)


    
AFTERNOON

    
 2:15 Music
 3:00 Public Address:
        Man's Rule About to Give Way to God's Rule
 4:00 Intermission
 4:30 Music
 4:34 Closing Remarks
 5:15 Song No. 110 and Prayer