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Service Meeting Schedule
Week Starting July 9
10 min: Local announcements. Using the suggestions on page 4 or other presentations appropriate for your territory, demonstrate how to offer the July 15 Watchtower and the July Awake!
15 min: What Brings True Happiness? Talk and audience discussion based on the May 15, 2006, Watchtower, pages 28-9, paragraphs 11-12. Briefly interview someone who has chosen to center his life on the ministry rather than to pursue pleasures or a secular career. What caused him to pursue spiritual goals? How has this brought happiness?
20 min: Question Box. To be handled by an elder. Read and discuss entire article. Include comments on points found in the Awake! of May 22, 2005, pages 13-14, under the subheadings “The Dangers of Deception and Secrecy” and “Choosing the Real Over the Virtual.”
Song 91 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting July 16
10 min: Local announcements.
20 min: Maintaining the Peace and Cleanness of the Congregation. Talk and audience discussion based on Organized to Do Jehovah’s Will, from page 144 to the subheading on page 150.
15 min: “Exciting Changes for The Watchtower!”a
Song 189 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting July 23
10 min: Local announcements. Read accounts report and donation acknowledgments. Using the suggestions on page 4 or other presentations appropriate for your territory, demonstrate how to offer the August 1 Watchtower and the August Awake!
20 min: Be Hospitable to One Another. Talk based on the January 15, 2005, Watchtower, pages 21-3. Include a brief interview of one or two publishers who are known for being hospitable. How have they endeavored to show hospitality? What blessings have they and their family enjoyed as a result?
15 min: Preparing Effective Introductions. Audience discussion based on the Reasoning book, page 9, paragraphs 1-2. Include two demonstrations showing how to present the offer for August.
Song 61 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting July 30
10 min: Local announcements. Remind publishers to turn in field service reports for July.
15 min: Self-Sacrifice Brings Jehovah’s Blessing. Talk based on the November 15, 2005, Watchtower, pages 8-9.
20 min: “Happy Is the Man That Keeps On Enduring Trial.”b When considering paragraph 3, invite the audience to comment on how strong faith helped them when a trial arose suddenly. One or two comments may be arranged in advance.
Song 13 and concluding prayer.
Week Starting August 6
10 min: Local announcements. Selected Announcements from Our Kingdom Ministry.
15 min: Local needs.
20 min: “Why We Go Back Again and Again.”c When considering paragraph 5, invite the audience to comment on what caused them to take an interest in the truth when previously they were opposed or not interested.
Song 211 and concluding prayer.
[Footnotes]
Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
