1977 "JOYFUL WORKERS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-15-77 pages 611-616
                                Awake! 10-22-77 pages 24-28)

DAY 1 DAY'S THEME: Working What Is Good at Home 

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

MORNING

9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 64, Prayer
9:30 Chairman's Words of Welcome:
      Keep Busy in the Work of Jehovah
10:00 Training Children from Infancy
10:25 Youth's Place in Christian Society
10:50 Family Discipline Brings Joy

11:15 ANNOUNCEMENTS

11:25 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
      Share Joyfully with Jesus Christ in Jehovah's Work
      (See WT 6-1-78 pages 16-25)
12:10 Song No. 19

AFTERNOON

2:15 Music
2:25 Song No. 108
2:30 Working Together to Make a Success of Marriage
3:00 Courageously Coping With Family Opposition
3:30 Appreciating the Sacredness of Blood
      (See WT 6-15-78 pages 16-20)
3:45 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood
      (See WT 6-15-78 pages 21-26)
      (RELEASE: "Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood" (booklet))
4:15 Aiding Others to Respect Our Position
      (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of October 1977 (U.S. edition), page 3)

4:35 ANNOUNCEMENTS

4:40 DRAMA: "God Is Not Far Off from Each One of Us"
5:25 Song No. 23 and Prayer
  
     
 

1977 "JOYFUL WORKERS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-15-77 pages 611-616
                                Awake! 10-22-77 pages 24-28)

DAY 2 DAY'S THEME: Inciting to Love and Fine Works 

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

MORNING

9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 8, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
9:40 Conducting Ourselves Honestly in All Things
10:05 Cleansed and Zealous for Fine Works

10:30 ANNOUNCEMENTS

10:35 Love in Action
      (See WT 9-15-78 pages 17-21)
11:05 "Select Wise, Discreet and Experienced Men"
      (See WT 12-1-78 pages 16-25)
11:40 Our Choice to Work with Jehovah
      (See WT 11-1-78 pages 12-21)
12:10 Song No. 61, to Baptism

AFTERNOON

2:15 Music
2:25 Song No. 62
2:30 Secretaries to Benefit the Flock of God
      (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 3-4)
2:45 "They Will Be Taught By Jehovah"
      (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 4-5)
3:10 Administering God's Law in the Congregation
      (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 5-6)
3:35 Song No. 4
3:40 DRAMA: Jehovah's Name to Be Declared in All the Earth
      (NOTE: This drama can be obtained on audiocassette from the Watch
             Tower Society.)

4:25 ANNOUNCEMENTS

4:30 Our Incoming World Government--God's Kingdom
      (See WT 3-1-78 pages 16-31)
      (RELEASE: "Our Incoming World Government--God's Kingdom" (book))
5:15 Song No. 27 and Prayer
  
     
 

1977 "JOYFUL WORKERS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-15-77 pages 611-616
                                Awake! 10-22-77 pages 24-28)

DAY 3 DAY'S THEME: Exerting Ourselves in the Field 

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

MORNING

9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 25, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
9:40 Let Your Light Shine Forth Everywhere
10:10 Conversing on the Bible from House to House
10:40 Finding Joy in Disciple-making

11:10 ANNOUNCEMENTS

11:15 DRAMA: Are You Whole-souled in Service to God?
12:15 Song No. 88

AFTERNOON

2:15 Music
2:25 Song No. 105
2:30 What Does It Take to Have a Good Time?
3:00 Walking in the Light of Truth
3:35 Auxiliary Pioneering--Can You Share?

4:05 ANNOUNCEMENTS

4:10 Pioneer Work Makes the Heart Joyful
4:40 Life DOES Have a Purpose
      (See WT 2-1-78 pages 16-21)
      (RELEASE: "Life DOES Have a Purpose" (book))
5:25 Song No. 11 and Prayer
  
     
 

1977 "JOYFUL WORKERS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY

 
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-15-77 pages 611-616
                                Awake! 10-22-77 pages 24-28)

DAY 4 DAY'S THEME: Loyal Workers Inherit the Promises 

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

MORNING

9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 109, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
9:40 Self-indulgent or Self-sacrificing--Which?
      (See WT 8-1-78 pages 16-26)
10:10 Are You Independent or Loyal?

10:40 ANNOUNCEMENTS

10:45 News of Loyal Ones from Other Lands
11:15 Jehovah Remembers Your Works
11:45 Song No. 44

AFTERNOON

1:40 Music
1:55 Song No. 84 and Prayer
2:00 PUBLIC ADDRESS:
      How God's Kingdom Can Benefit You
      (See WT 1-15-78 pages 12-25)
3:00 Music
3:05 Impressions of This "Joyful Workers" District Assembly
3:30 Forward with the "Greater Works"!
4:10 Song No. 110 and Prayer