Accounts

• audits: 3:3.20

• expenses

  • approval of: 3:3.20

  • circuit overseer: 10:5-7

  • hospitality and travel for visiting speakers: 20:5

  • Kingdom Hall: 21:20-22

• Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:20

• oversight: 4:2.8

• proper use of congregation funds: 10:8

• selection of accounts servant: 1:2.7

Adultery

• adulterous marriage: 12:10-12

  • judicial files: 22:26-27

  • letters of introduction: 22:7-8

• announced reproof: 16:20.1

• bearing on recommendation as elder or ministerial servant: 8:8

• confession to mate: 15:14; 16:10.5

• Scriptural freedom to remarry: 12:71-76

Anger: 12:36-37

Announcements

• approval: 20:13

• deletion

  • elder or ministerial servant: 8:38

  • pioneer: 9:4

• disassociation: 18:5

• disfellowshipping: 16:29-30

• Memorial: 20:12

• reinstatement: 19:12

• reproof: 16:20-21

• special public talk: 20:12

• unbaptized publisher: 12:49, 51, 54

• wedding: 27:6.3

Apostasy: 12:39

Appeals

• deletion: 8:39

• disassociation: 18:6

• disfellowshipping: 17

  • discovery of new grounds for disfellowshipping: 17:8

  • if appeal committee agrees with judicial committee: 17:9-10

  • if appeal committee disagrees with judicial committee: 17:11-15

  • informing of right to appeal: 16:26.2

• unbaptized publishers: 12:53

Application for Regular Pioneer Service (S-205): 9:1-3, 9

Appointments

• elder and ministerial servant: 8

  • cautions before recommending certain brothers: 8:6-11

    • baptized for many years but only now being recommended: 8:11

    • guilty of adultery in past: 8:8

    • previously reproved, disfellowshipped, or disassociated: 8:7

    • separated or unscripturally divorced: 8:9

    • served in an appointed position in past: 8:10; 13:8

  • congregation file: 22:19

  • considering Scriptural qualifications: 8:1-5

  • prisoners: 28:21

  • recommendations between circuit overseer’s regular visits to congregation: 8:21

  • recommendations during circuit overseer’s regular visit to congregation: 8:15-20

  • when appointed brother moves into congregation: 8:13-14

• pioneer: 9:1-3

“Are You Ready to Face a Faith-Challenging Medical Situation?” (kmi11/90): 11:1

Assemblies: 20:16

• foreign-language: 24:27

• JW Stream: 20:27

• prisons: 28:20

• rooming: 2:3.5

Assistance for needy publishers

• role of elders in determining: 1:2.20, 6.3

• rooming for assemblies and conventions: 2:3.5

Association with disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals: 12:17.1

Attendants

• approval: 1:2.8

• disruptive individuals: 20:37-38

• oversight: 3:3.18

Audits: 3:3.20

Bankruptcy: 8:29

Baptism

• communicable diseases: 11:16-17

• materials provided by secretary: 11:1

• meeting one year after

  • reminder: 4:2.7

  • scheduling: 3:3.6

• prisons: 28:15

• review of questions with candidates: 3:3.3

• validity: 12:60-62

Bethelites, wrongdoing by: 12:43

Blind: 5:2.4

Blood

• (See Medical matters)

Body of elders

• elders’ meetings: 1:1, 3-11

• pursue peace: 1:12-13

• responsibilities: 1:2

Boxing: 12:37

Brazen conduct: 12:16-17

• dating though not Scripturally free to remarry: 12:17.2

• pornography: 13:4

• sexting: 14:30

• unnecessary association with disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals: 12:17.1

Brideprice: 12:34

Causing divisions: 12:39.4, 70

Charitable donation programs: 29:10

• fund-raising programs: 29:10.3

• matching donation programs: 29:10.1

• volunteer service donation programs: 29:10.2

Child abuse: 14

• child pornography: 14:3, 10

• congregation considerations: 14:11

• filing: 14:25

• investigating allegations: 14:18

• judicial committee: 14:19; 16:11

• legal considerations: 14:4, 6-10

  • prison inmates: 14:9, 27

• moving to another congregation: 14:26-27

• notification by secular authorities: 14:28

• providing spiritual assistance: 14:12-17

• questions asked of newly appointed brothers: 8:17

• reinstatement committee: 14:20-21; 19:3

• reporting: 14:4, 6-10

• restrictions: 14:22-24

• sexting: 14:3, 10, 30

• sexual misconduct involving only minors: 14:29-30

Child custody: 29:9

Circuit overseer

• accommodations and meals: 10:1-4

• expenses during week of visit: 10:5-7

• meeting with elders during visit: 1:4

• meetings of pregroup or group during visit: 24:23

• recommendations for appointment

  • during visit: 8:15-20

  • between visits: 8:21

• recommendations for deletion

  • during visit: 8:34

  • between visits: 8:35

• Report on Circuit Overseer’s Visit With Congregation (S-303): 1:6.1; 22:20

Circumstantial evidence: 12:7-9

Cleaning: 21:5-7

• coordinator: 21:7

• Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:15, 17

• safety: 21:27-29

Conferencing systems: 20:24

Confession

• establishing wrongdoing: 12:40.1

• to innocent mate: 15:14; 16:10.5

Congregation Bible Study

• approval of conductors and readers: 1:2.8

• conducting: 20:19

Congregation file

• (See Correspondence and records)

Congregation Job Hazard Analysis (DC-85): 21:29

Congregation Job Hazard Analysis Instructions (DC-85i): 21:29

Congregation Meeting Attendance Record (S-88): 22:18

Congregation Service Committee: 2

• ministerial servants substituting as members of: 2:2; 8:15

• responsibilities: 2:1, 3

Congregation Territory Assignment (S-54): 23:2

Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21): 22:12-17

• hour credit: 9:13-14

• infirm regular pioneers: 9:20

• judicial information: 22:21-22

• letter of introduction: 22:5

• publishers who regularly move to second residence: 8:14

• those involved in additional theocratic assignments: 23:24

Construction servant, wrongdoing by: 12:43

Conventions: 20:17

• foreign-language: 24:27

• JW Stream: 20:27

• prisons: 28:20

• role of secretary: 4:2.8

• rooming: 2:3.5

Coordinator of the body of elders: 3

• appointment: 3:1

• qualifications: 3:2

• responsibilities: 3:3

Correspondence and records: 22

• congregation file: 22:10-27

  • Application for Regular Pioneer Service (S-205): 9:2

  • appointment and deletion of elders and ministerial servants: 22:19

  • categories: 22:11

  • child abuse: 14:25

  • confidentiality: 22:10

  • Congregation Meeting Attendance Record (S-88): 22:18

  • disaster preparedness: 26:4

  • durable power of attorney (DPA): 11:1.1

  • field service reports: 22:12-17

  • judicial file and other confidential reports: 22:21-27

  • Report on Circuit Overseer’s Visit With Congregation (S-303): 22:20

  • security: 22:10

• disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals who die: 19:10

• disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals who move: 22:9

• JW.ORG e-mail: 22:1-4

• letters of introduction: 22:5-8

• online storage services: 22:28

• role of Congregation Service Committee: 2:3.6-7

• role of coordinator of the body of elders and secretary: 3:3.1

• visit of service overseer to field service group: 5:2.5

Counsel: 25:9

Dating

• unbeliever

  • marking: 12:77-80

  • support by elder or ministerial servant: 8:24

• when not Scripturally free to remarry: 12:17.2

Deaf: 5:2.4

• (See also Sign language)

Death

• disfellowshipped or disassociated person: 19:10

• elder or ministerial servant: 8:37

Deletions

• elders and ministerial servants: 8

  • announcements: 8:38

  • appealing: 8:39

  • congregation file: 22:19

  • for judicial reasons or death: 8:37

  • pornography: 13:5-6

  • recommendations between circuit overseer’s regular visits to congregation: 8:35

  • recommendations during circuit overseer’s regular visit to congregation: 8:34

  • resignations: 8:36

  • reviewing qualifications: 8:31-33

  • Shepherd book: Intro:3

  • when appointed brother moves out of congregation: 8:12

• pioneers: 9:4-5, 11-20; 13:5-6

Disassociations: 18

Disasters and emergencies: 26

• preparedness: 26:1-6

  • congregation records: 26:4

  • contact information: 26:2

  • local needs part: 26:6

  • review of arrangements with body of elders: 26:5

  • special needs: 26:3

• response

  • local area: 26:7-12

    • contacting publishers: 26:7

    • practical support: 26:12

    • safety: 26:10

    • shepherding: 26:11

    • updating circuit overseer: 26:9

    • updating coordinator of the body of elders: 26:8

• other area: 26:13

Disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals

• appointed brother allows to live in home: 8:23

• association with: 12:17.1

• contact by elders: 25:20

• death: 19:10

• monthly JW Broadcasting programs: 21:41

• moving: 22:9

• prisoners: 28:17

• transportation to meetings: 20:39

Disfellowshipping: 16:26-31

Disruptive individuals: 20:37-38

Divorce

• assistance to those contemplating: 25:11

• bearing on recommendation as elder or ministerial servant: 8:9; 25:11

• Scriptural freedom to remarry: 12:71-76

  • judicial hearings: 15:14

  • weddings: 27:3.1-2, 6.1

“Do-not-calls”

• child abuser: 14:27-28

• request by householder: 23:21

• request by manager: 23:22

Domestic violence: 12:36-37

Drugs: 12:15.4

Drunkenness: 12:18-19

Durable power of attorney (DPA)

• admission to hospital: 11:4

• elderly: 11:3

• Hospital Liaison Committee: 11:8.4; 20:15

• newly baptized publishers: 11:1

Emergencies

• (See Disasters and emergencies)

Employment

• false religion: 12:39.5

• gambling: 12:32

• neutrality: 18:3.4

Engagements: 27:4

Evidence establishing wrongdoing: 12:40-42

“Exemplary”: 2:4

Expenses

• approval of: 3:3.20

• circuit overseer: 10:5-7

• Kingdom Hall: 21:20-22; A

Extortion: 12:31-34

Eyewitnesses

• appeal hearing: 17:6

• establishing wrongdoing: 12:40.2

• judicial hearing: 16:2-3

False teachings: 12:39.3

Field ministry: 23

• Bible study with child of Christian parent: 2:3.3

• congregation territory assignment: 23:1-3

• “do-not-calls”

  • child abuser: 14:27-28

  • request by householder: 23:21

  • request by manager: 23:22

• foreign-language field: 24:1-10

• harbor witnessing: 23:19

• inactive: 25:17

• incidents resulting in injury or death while engaging in: 29:1.5

• literature

  • oversight: 5:2.4

  • selection of servant: 1:2.7

• meetings for field service

  • conductors

    • approval: 1:2.8

    • groups: 7:2.2

    • scheduling: 5:2.2

  • locations and meeting times: 2:3.1

• nursing homes: 23:18

• prisons: 28:10-16

  • literature: 28:10-12

  • publishers who transfer to another facility: 28:16

  • reporting activity: 28:13-14

  • reporting baptisms: 28:15

• public witnessing: 23:4-16

  • displaying literature: 23:14

  • electronic devices: 23:15

  • equipment: 23:8-9

  • participants: 23:10-11

  • selecting suitable locations: 23:4-5

  • site permission and insurance coverage: 23:6-7

  • special metropolitan: 23:16

  • training: 23:12-13

• reports and records: 22:12-17

  • collecting: 7:2.9

  • pioneers: 9:10-18

  • prisons: 28:13-14

  • publishers who regularly move to second residence: 8:14

• retirement homes: 23:18

• review of activity

  • field service group: 7:2.6

  • pioneers: 9:14-18

  • showing consideration for those involved in additional theocratic assignments: 23:24-25

• schools and universities: 23:17

• witnessing difficulties: 23:21-23

Field missionaries: 22:15

Field service groups

• assigning publishers: 2:3.1

• assistant: 7:1

• number: 1:2.2

• overseer: 7

  • qualifications: 7:1

  • responsibilities: 7:2

• review of activity: 7:2.6

• visit of service overseer: 5:2.5

Fits of anger: 12:36-37

Foreign-language field: 24

• assemblies: 24:27

• assisting publishers: 24:24-26

• conventions: 24:27

• forming pregroups, groups, and congregations: 24:2-5

• host congregation: 24:11-12

• invitations: 24:28

• meetings: 24:13-23

  • audio/​video tie-in: 24:17-18

  • during visit of circuit overseer: 24:23

  • groups: 24:14-15

  • interpretation: 24:19, 23

    • (See also Sign language)

  • locations: 24:16

  • Memorial: 24:22

  • pregroups: 24:13

  • recording attendance: 24:20

  • recordings: 24:17-18

  • songs: 24:21

• signs: 24:28

• territory coverage: 24:6-10

• yeartext: 24:28

Forms: 5:2.6

• Application for Regular Pioneer Service (S-205): 9:1-3, 9

• “Are You Ready to Face a Faith-Challenging Medical Situation?” (kmi11/90): 11:1

• Congregation Job Hazard Analysis (DC-85): 21:29

• Congregation Job Hazard Analysis Instructions (DC-85i): 21:29

• Congregation Meeting Attendance Record (S-88): 22:18

• Congregation Territory Assignment (S-54): 23:2

• Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21)

  • hour credit: 9:13-14

  • infirm regular pioneers: 9:20

  • judicial information: 22:21-22

  • letters of introduction: 22:5

  • publishers who regularly move to second residence: 8:14

• durable power of attorney (DPA)

  • admission to hospital: 11:4

  • elderly: 11:3

  • Hospital Liaison Committee: 11:8.4; 20:15

  • newly baptized publishers: 11:1

• Field Service Report (S-4)

  • collecting: 7:2.9

  • pioneers: 9:10-18

  • publishers who regularly move to second residence: 8:14

• “Honorable Marriage in God’s Sight” (S-41): 27:5

• “How Do I View Blood Fractions and Medical Procedures Involving My Own Blood?” (kmi11/06): 11:1

• How Parents Can Protect Their Children From Misuse of Blood (S-55): 11:2

• Identity Card (ic): 11:8.4

• Incident Report (TO-5): 21:30-31

• Incident Report Instructions (TO-5i): 21:30-31

• Kingdom Hall Information (S-5): 21:33

• Notification of Disfellowshipping or Disassociation (S-77): 22:22

• pioneer appointment letter (S-202): 9:9

• pioneer welcome letter (S-236): 9:3

• Prison Information (S-68): 28:6

• Public Witnessing Guidelines (S-148): 23:12

• Public Witnessing Supplies (S-80): 23:9

• Recommendations for Appointment of Elders and Ministerial Servants (S-62): 8:15, 21

• Renting Facilities for Theocratic Events (TO-19): 21:4

• Report of Meeting Attendance (S-3): 22:18

• Report on Circuit Overseer’s Visit With Congregation (S-303): 1:6.1; 22:20

• Special Medical Needs Room Request (hlc-20): 11:10-15

• Suggestions for Publishers Learning Another Language (S-394): 24:24

• Working Together Safely​—Standards for Theocratic Construction and Maintenance (DC-82): 21:28

Fraud: 12:24-28

Funerals: 2:3.11; 21:19

Gambling: 12:31-33

Gluttony: 12:20

Greed: 12:31-34

Gross uncleanness, uncleanness with greediness: 12:14-15

• pornography: 13:3

• sexting: 14:30

Harbor witnessing: 23:19

Higher education: 8:30

Holidays: 12:39.1

Homebound publishers: 20:24, 26-27

“Honorable Marriage in God’s Sight” (S-41): 27:5

Hospital Liaison Committees: 11:6-15; 20:15

Hour credit: 9:11-14

“How Do I View Blood Fractions and Medical Procedures Involving My Own Blood?” (kmi11/06): 11:1

How Parents Can Protect Their Children From Misuse of Blood (S-55): 11:2

Identity Card (ic): 11:8.4

Idolatry: 12:39.7

“In good standing”: 2:4

Inactive

• field service records: 22:12, 16

• Memorial and special talk: 25:15

• repentant wrongdoer: 25:18

• shepherding: 25:13-18

• wrongdoing by: 12:44-46

Incident Report (TO-5): 21:30-31

Incident Report Instructions (TO-5i): 21:30-31

Infirm regular pioneers: 9:19-20

Information board: 21:34

• inactive ones: 25:14

• social events: 29:8

Interfaith: 12:39.2

Internet service

• circuit overseer: 10:7

• Kingdom Hall: 21:36, 38.3

Interpretation

• sign-language: 20:28-35

  • attire: 20:32-34

  • seating area: 20:28-29

  • songs: 20:35

  • use of natural sign language: 20:30-31

• simultaneous: 24:19, 23

Irregular publishers: 7:2.9

Joining another religion: 18:3.2

Judicial committee

• appeals

  • (See Appeals)

• determining which congregation should handle the matter: 12:63-65

• disassociations

  • (See Disassociations)

• disfellowshipping: 16:26-31

• evidence establishing wrongdoing: 12:40-42

  • confession: 12:40.1

  • eyewitnesses: 12:40.2

    • appeal hearing: 17:6

    • judicial hearing: 16:2-3

• files: 22:21-27

• inactive: 25:18

• inviting accused to hearing: 15:7-11

• legal action: 15:18-20

• marking: 12:77-80

• meeting with baptized minors and young adults: 15:15

• meeting with incarcerated ones: 28:22

• meeting with marriage mates: 15:12-14

• mental or emotional problems: 16:12

• news media: 15:19

• offenses requiring review by elders: 12:2-39

  • adulterous marriage: 12:10-12

  • apostasy: 12:39

    • causing divisions, promoting sects: 12:39.4

    • deliberately spreading teachings contrary to Bible truth: 12:39.3

    • employment: 12:39.5

    • holidays: 12:39.1

    • idolatry: 12:39.7

    • interfaith: 12:39.2

    • spiritism: 12:39.6

  • brazen conduct: 12:16-17

    • dating though not Scripturally free to remarry: 12:17.2

    • pornography: 13:4

    • sexting: 14:30

    • unnecessary association with disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals: 12:17.1

  • child abuse: 14:19; 16:2

  • drunkenness: 12:18-19

  • extortion: 12:34

  • fits of anger: 12:36-37

  • fraud: 12:24-28

  • gambling: 12:31-33

  • gluttony: 12:20

  • greed: 12:31-34

  • gross uncleanness, uncleanness with greediness: 12:14-15

    • extreme physical uncleanness: 12:15.5

    • immoral conversations over telephone or Internet: 12:15.2; 14:30

    • misuse of tobacco or marijuana and abuse of medical, illicit, or addictive drugs: 12:15.4

    • momentary touching of intimate body parts or caressing of breasts: 12:15.1

    • viewing abhorrent forms of pornography: 13:3

  • lying: 12:22-23

  • manslaughter: 12:38

  • obscene speech: 12:15.2, 30

  • pornography: 13:2-4

  • refusal to provide for family: 12:35

  • reviling: 12:29

  • sexual immorality (por·neiʹa): 12:3-6

  • slander: 12:24-28

  • stealing: 12:21

  • strong circumstantial evidence of sexual immorality (por·neiʹa): 12:7-9

  • violence: 12:36-37

• permitting individuals to commit sexual immorality in home: 12:67-70

• preparing mind and heart to judge: 15:4-6

• recordings: 16:1

• reinstatements

  • (See Reinstatements)

• repentance: 16:6-17

• reproof: 16:18-25

• restrictions

  • letter of introduction: 22:7

  • reinstatement: 19:11-12, 14

  • reproof: 16:19, 22

• Scriptural freedom to remarry: 12:10-12, 71-76

• selecting committee and chairman: 15:1-3

• serious wrongdoing that occurred years in past: 12:57-59

• suicide

  • attempt: 12:81

  • threat: 15:17

• those having certain privileges of service: 12:43

• those who have not associated for many years: 12:44-46

• unbaptized publishers: 12:47-56

• validity of wrongdoer’s baptism: 12:60-62

• wrongdoing involving individuals from different congregations: 12:66

JW Broadcasting: 21:41

JW Library: 20:21

JW.ORG

• assigning roles: 2:3.12

• e-mail: 22:1-4

• local domain administrators: 3:3.15

JW Stream: 20:25-27

• foreign-language field: 24:17

• Memorial and special talk: 20:10

Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall construction worldwide: 1:2.15

Kingdom Hall Information (S-5): 21:33

Kingdom Halls

• cleaning: 21:5-7

  • coordinator: 21:7

  • Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:15, 17

• construction: 21:23-24; A

• contact congregation: 21:3

• dedications: 21:43

• expenses: 21:20-22; A

• funerals: 2:3.11; 21:19

• incidents: 21:30-32

• information board: 21:34

  • inactive ones: 25:14

  • social events: 29:8

• inspections: 21:25

• Internet service: 21:36, 38.3

• JW Broadcasting monthly programs: 21:41

• Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:15-20

  • monthly contribution: 1:2.16

• library: 21:39-40

• maintenance and repair: 21:8-14; A

  • coordinator: 21:14

  • Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:15, 17-18

• meeting times: 21:19, 20, 33

• merging congregations: 21:23

• moisture-related problems: 21:12

• ownership: 21:2-3

• phone answering system: 21:35

• property: 21:42

• renovation: 21:22-24; A

• rented facilities: 21:4, 13

• safety: 21:27-29

  • cleaning: 21:6-7, 17

  • maintenance: 21:8-9, 14, 17

• security: 21:26

• signs

  • foreign-language field: 24:28

  • meeting times: 21:33

  • yeartext: 21:38.2; 24:28

• upgrades: 21:22; A

• video equipment: 21:37-38; A

• weddings: 27:6

• written agreement: 21:20

• yeartext: 21:38.2; 24:28

Kingdom Ministry School: 8:13

Legal matters: 29

• charitable donation programs: 29:10

  • fund-raising programs: 29:10.3

  • matching donation programs: 29:10.1

  • volunteer service donation programs: 29:10.2

• child abuse: 14:6-10

  • child pornography: 14:10

  • prison inmates: 14:9, 27

  • sexting: 14:3, 10, 30

• child custody: 29:9

• incidents resulting in injury or death while engaging in theocratic activities: 21:30; 29:1.5

• news media: 15:19

• officiating at weddings: 27:2-5

• personal legal advice: 29:2

• public witnessing: 23:6-7

• social events: 29:8

• threats of legal action: 15:18-20

• undocumented aliens: 29:3-7

• witnessing difficulties: 23:21-23

Letters of introduction: 22:5-8

• child abusers: 14:26-27

• elders and ministerial servants: 8:12-14

• pioneers: 9:6-7

Library: 21:39-40

Life and Ministry Meeting

• assignments: 1:2.8; 3:3.17

• auxiliary counselor: 1:2.5

• chairman: 1:2.8

• conducting: 20:19

• Congregation Bible Study

  • approval of conductors and readers: 1:2.8

  • conducting: 20:19

• counselors for auxiliary classes: 1:2.5

• overseer: 1:2.4

Literature

• disfellowshipped individuals: 16:26.3

• oversight: 5:2.4

• prisons: 28:10-12

• public witnessing: 23:14

• selection of literature servant: 1:2.7

Local Design/​Construction Department

• disasters: 26:12

• inspections: 21:25

• maintenance and repair: 21:8-14; A

• major renovation and new construction: 21:23-24; A

• rented facilities: 21:4

• security system: 21:26

• upgrades and minor renovation: 21:22; A

• use of congregation property: 21:42

• video equipment: 21:37; A

Local needs parts: 20:14-15

• assemblies: 20:16

• conventions: 20:17

• disaster preparedness: 26:6

Lying: 12:22-23

Maintenance and repair: 21:8-14; A

• coordinator: 21:14

• Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:15, 17-18

• safety: 21:27-29

Manslaughter: 12:38

Marijuana: 12:15.4

Marking: 12:77-80

Marriage

• adulterous: 12:10-12

  • judicial files: 22:26-27

  • letters of introduction: 22:7-8

• Scriptural freedom: 12:71-76

  • confirmation before wedding: 27:3.1-2, 6.1

  • dating: 12:17.2

  • resuming relations: 15:14

• shepherding: 25:10-11

• support of uneven yoking: 8:24

Masturbation: 12:4

Medical matters: 11

• accepting blood: 18:3.3

• admission to hospital: 11:4

• baptism of individual with communicable disease: 11:16-17

• communication with medical personnel: 11:5

• elderly: 11:3

• Hospital Liaison Committee: 11:6-9

  • local needs parts: 20:15

• newly baptized publishers: 11:1

• parents and pregnant sisters: 11:2

• Patient Visitation Group: 11:6

• traveling to care for medical needs: 11:10-15

Meetings: 20

• attendance records: 22:18

  • foreign-language: 24:20

  • prison: 28:17

• attendants

  • approval: 1:2.8

  • disruptive individuals: 20:37-38

  • oversight: 3:3.18

• baptism

  • candidates: 3:3.3

  • one year after

    • reminder: 4:2.7

    • scheduling: 3:3.6

• conferencing systems: 20:24

• disruptive individuals: 20:37-38

• elders’: 1:1, 3-11

  • arranging for: 3:3.4

  • compiling and distributing agenda: 1:7

  • during meeting: 1:8-11

  • length: 1:3

  • reviewing qualifications: 8:31-33

  • what to discuss: 1:5-6

  • when to hold: 1:4

• field service

  • conductors

    • approval: 1:2.8

    • group overseer: 7:2.2

    • scheduling: 5:2.2

  • locations and meeting times: 2:3.1

• foreign-language: 24:13-23

  • audio/​video tie-in: 24:17-18

  • during visit of circuit overseer: 24:23

  • groups: 24:14-15

  • interpretation: 24:19, 23

    • (See also Sign language)

  • locations: 24:16

  • Memorial: 24:22

  • pregroups: 24:13

  • recording attendance: 24:20

  • recordings: 24:17-18

  • songs: 24:21

• informing of appointment: 8:17-19

• informing of deletion: 8:34-35

• JW Library: 20:21

• JW Stream: 20:25-27

  • foreign-language meetings: 24:17

  • Memorial and special talk: 20:10

• Kingdom Hall Operating Committee: 21:16

• meeting times: 21:19, 20, 33

• Memorial: 20:6-12

  • chairman and announcements: 20:12

  • foreign-language: 24:22

  • inactive: 25:15

  • JW Stream: 20:10

  • meeting times: 20:8

  • other meetings week of: 20:9

  • prayers: 20:7

  • prisons: 28:19

  • speaker: 20:6

• midweek (Life and Ministry Meeting)

  • announcements: 20:13

  • assignments: 1:2.8; 3:3.17

  • auxiliary counselor: 1:2.5

  • chairman: 1:2.8

  • Congregation Bible Study

    • approval of conductors and readers: 1:2.8

    • conducting: 20:19

  • counselors for auxiliary classes: 1:2.5

  • local needs parts: 20:14-15

    • assemblies: 20:16

    • conventions: 20:17

    • disaster preparedness: 26:6

  • overseer: 1:2.4

• passing microphones: 1:2.8

• pioneer

  • review of application: 9:1

  • review of field service activity: 9:16-18

  • with elders in December/​January: 1:2.12

• pornography: 13:1

• prayer: 1:2.8

• prisons: 28:17-20

  • extended meetings: 28:20

  • Memorial: 28:19

• recordings

  • Memorial: 20:10; 28:19

  • special public talk: 20:10

• resignations: 8:36

• sign-language: 20:28-36

  • audio during videos: 20:36

  • interpretation: 20:28-35

    • attire: 20:32-34

    • seating area: 20:28-29

    • songs: 20:35

    • use of natural sign language: 20:30-31

  • visual aids: 20:20

• songs: 20:21-23

  • foreign-language: 24:21

  • sign-language: 20:35

• sound

  • approval of those working with: 1:2.8

  • oversight: 3:3.18

  • sign-language videos: 20:36

• stage

  • approval of those working with: 1:2.8

  • oversight: 3:3.18

• transportation for disfellowshipped: 20:39

• unbaptized publishers

  • desirous of becoming: 3:3.5

  • with parents of minors involved in wrongdoing: 12:55

• video: 20:21

  • approval of those working with: 1:2.8

  • oversight: 3:3.18

  • sign-language: 20:36

• visual aids: 20:20

• weekend

  • public talk

    • chairman

      • approval: 1:2.8

      • Memorial and special talk: 20:12

      • scheduling: 3:3.19

    • coordinator

      • oversight: 3:3.18

      • selection: 1:2.7

    • speakers: 20:1-5

      • assignments: 20:1-2

      • hospitality and travel expenses: 20:5

      • reading scriptures: 20:3

      • symposiums: 20:4

    • special

      • chairman and announcements: 20:12

      • inactive: 25:15

      • JW Stream: 20:10

      • speaker: 1:2.13

  • Watchtower Study

    • conductor: 6

      • conducting study: 6:2-9

      • qualifications: 6:1

    • paragraph readers

      • approval: 6:9

      • recordings: 6:9

      • scheduling: 3:3.19

Memorial: 20:6-12

• chairman and announcements: 20:12

• foreign-language: 24:22

• inactive: 25:15

• JW Stream: 20:10

• meeting times: 20:8

• other meetings week of: 20:9

• prayers: 20:7

• prisons: 28:19

• speaker: 20:6

Merging congregations: 21:23

Microphones, passing: 1:2.8

Moisture-related problems: 21:12

Moving

• child abusers: 14:26-27

• disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals: 22:9

• elders and ministerial servants: 8:12-14

• letters of introduction: 22:5-8

• pioneers: 9:6-7

• prisoners: 28:16

• wrongdoers: 12:64; 19:13-16

Murder: 12:38

Neutrality: 18:3.4

News media: 15:19

Notification of Disfellowshipping or Disassociation (S-77): 22:22

Nursing homes: 23:18

Obscene speech: 12:15.2, 30

Online storage services: 22:28

Patient Visitation Groups: 11:6

Phone answering system: 21:35

Pioneers: 9

• appointment letter (S-202): 9:9

• appointments: 9:1-3

• changes to information: 9:8

• congregation changes: 9:6-7

• deletions: 9:4-5

• Field Service Reports (S-4): 9:10

• hour credit: 9:11-14

• infirm: 9:19-20

• meeting with elders in December/​January: 1:2.12

• prisoners: 28:21

• review of activity: 9:16-18

• special consideration: 9:14-15

• special pioneer

  • field service report: 22:15

  • wrongdoing by: 12:43

• welcome letter (S-236): 9:3

Plea bargain: 12:40.1

Por·neiʹa: 12:3-9

Pornography: 13

• child pornography: 14:3, 10

• determining whether a judicial hearing is required: 13:2-4

• reappointment of elders and ministerial servants: 13:8

• reviewing qualifications of appointed persons: 13:5-6

• shepherding: 13:7

Prayer

• elders’ meetings: 1:1

• public: 1:2.8

Pregroups

• (See Foreign-language field)

Prisons: 28

• child abuse: 14:9, 27

• communication with prison officials: 28:8

• contact congregation: 28:2-4

• correspondence with branch office: 28:5-7

• inmates serving in appointed capacity: 28:21

• judicial hearings: 28:22

• meetings: 28:17-20

  • extended: 28:20

  • Memorial: 28:19

• ministry: 28:10-16

  • literature: 28:10-12

  • proof of ordination: 28:8

  • publishers who transfer to another facility: 28:16

  • reporting activity: 28:13-14

  • reporting baptisms: 28:15

• referrals and contact with prisoners: 28:9

Public talk

• chairman

  • approval: 1:2.8

  • scheduling: 3:3.19

• coordinator

  • oversight: 3:3.18

  • selection: 1:2.7

• speakers: 20:1-5

  • assignments: 20:1-2

  • hospitality and travel expenses: 20:5

  • reading scriptures: 20:3

  • symposiums: 20:4

• special

  • inactive: 25:15

  • speaker: 1:2.13

Public witnessing: 23:4-16

• displaying literature: 23:14

• electronic devices: 23:15

• equipment: 23:8-9

• participants: 23:10-11

• selecting suitable locations: 23:4-5

• site permission and insurance coverage: 23:6-7

• special metropolitan: 23:16

• training: 23:12-13

Rape: 12:5, 41; 16:2

Reappointment of elders and ministerial servants: 13:8

Recommendations

• (See Appointments)

Recommendations for Appointment of Elders and Ministerial Servants (S-62): 8:15, 21

Recordings

• assemblies and conventions: 24:27

• foreign-language meetings: 24:17-18

• judicial hearings: 16:1

• Memorial: 20:10; 28:19

• paragraph reading: 6:9

• special public talk: 20:10

Records

• (See Correspondence and records)

Reinstatements: 19

• child abuse: 14:20-21

• communication between committees: 19:13-16

• hearings: 19:5-8

• if the decision is not to reinstate: 19:9

• if the decision is to reinstate: 19:10-12

• requests for: 19:1-4

Refusal to provide for family: 12:35

Renovation: 21:22-24; A

Renting Facilities for Theocratic Events (TO-19): 21:4

Repentance

• judicial hearings: 16:6-17

• reinstatement hearings: 19:5-8

Report of Meeting Attendance (S-3): 22:18

Report on Circuit Overseer’s Visit With Congregation (S-303): 1:6.1; 22:20

Reproof: 16:18-25

Resignations: 8:36

Restrictions

• branch-imposed: 14:22-24

• judicial

  • letter of introduction: 22:7

  • reinstatement: 19:11-12, 14

  • reproof: 16:19, 22

Retirement homes: 23:18

Reviewing qualifications of elder or ministerial servant: 8:31-33

• bankruptcy: 8:29

• disfellowshipped or disassociated family member in home: 8:23

• higher education: 8:30

• member of household involved in serious wrongdoing: 8:22

• past disfellowshipping offense never addressed: 8:25-27

• supports marriage of a baptized Christian to an unbaptized person: 8:24

• viewed pornography: 13:5-6

Reviling: 12:29

S-202 letter: 9:9

S-236 letter: 9:3

Safety

• disasters: 26:10

• Kingdom Hall: 21:27-29

  • cleaning: 21:6-7, 17

  • maintenance: 21:8-9, 14, 17

Scriptural freedom to remarry: 12:71-76

• adulterous marriage: 12:10-12

• confirmation before wedding: 27:3.1-2, 6.1

• dating: 12:17.2

• resuming relations: 15:14

Secretary: 4

• qualifications: 4:1

• responsibilities: 4:2

Sects: 12:39.4

Security: 21:26; 22:10

Separation

• assistance to those contemplating: 25:11

• bearing on privileges: 8:9; 25:11

• refusal to provide for family: 12:35

Service overseer: 5

• qualifications: 5:1

• responsibilities: 5:2

Serving where need is greater: 2:3.7

Sexting: 12:15.2, 30

• minors: 14:3, 10, 30

Sexual immorality (por·neiʹa)

• judicial offense: 12:3-9

• permitting in one’s home: 12:67-70

Shepherd Addendum: Intro:2

Shepherding: 25

• calls: 25:3

• child abuse: 14:12-17

• counsel: 25:9

• disasters: 26:11

• disfellowshipped or disassociated ones: 25:20

• engaged individuals: 27:4

• foreign-language field: 24:24-26

• inactive: 25:13-18

• marital problems: 25:10-11

• pornography: 13:7

• recognizing spiritual weakness: 25:7-8

• sisters: 25:12

• training ministerial servants: 25:4-6

Sign language: 20:28-36

• audio: 20:36

• interpretation: 20:28-35

  • attire: 20:32-34

  • seating area: 20:28-29

  • songs: 20:35

  • use of natural sign language: 20:30-31

• visual aids: 20:20

Signs

• foreign-language field: 24:28

• meeting times: 21:33

• yeartext: 21:38.2; 24:28

Slander: 12:24-28

Smoking: 12:15.4

Songs: 20:21-23

• foreign-language: 24:21

• sign-language: 20:35

Sound

• approval of those working with: 1:2.8

• oversight: 3:3.18

• sign-language videos: 20:36

Special Medical Needs Room Request (hlc-20): 11:10-15

Special metropolitan public witnessing: 23:16

Special pioneer

• field service report: 22:15

• wrongdoing by: 12:43

Special public talk

• chairman and announcements: 20:12

• inactive: 25:15

• JW Stream: 20:10

• speaker: 1:2.13

Spiritism: 12:39.6

Stage: 3:3.18

• approval of those working with: 1:2.8

• oversight: 3:3.18

Stealing: 12:21

Suggestions for Publishers Learning Another Language (S-394): 24:24

Suicide

• attempt: 12:81

• threat: 15:17

Symposiums: 20:4

Territory

• congregation assignment: 23:1-3

• foreign-language field: 24:6-10

• oversight: 5:2.1

• selection of territory servant: 1:2.7

Tobacco: 12:15.4

Training: 1:6.4-5

• body of elders: 1:6.4-5

• group overseer: 7:2.8

• public witnessing: 23:12-13

• shepherding: 25:4-6

Unbaptized publishers

• dating: 12:79

• durable power of attorney (DPA) and Identity Card (ic): 11:8.4

• handling wrongdoing by: 12:47-56

• meeting with those desirous of becoming: 3:3.5

• weddings: 27:3, 6.1

Uncleanness: 12:14-15

Undocumented aliens: 27:6.1; 29:3-7

Video: 20:21

• approval of those working with: 1:2.8

• equipment: 21:37-38

• foreign-language meetings: 24:17-18

• oversight: 3:3.18

• sign-language: 20:35-36

Violence: 12:36-37

Visual aids: 20:20

Voyeurism: 14:3

Warning talk: 12:77-80

• determining need and assigning speaker: 1:2.11

• permitting sexual immorality in one’s home: 12:70

• reproof: 16:23

• unbaptized publisher: 12:50

Watchtower Study

• conductor: 6

  • conducting the study: 6:2-9

  • qualifications: 6:1

• paragraph readers

  • approval: 6:9

  • recordings: 6:9

  • scheduling: 3:3.19

Weddings: 27

• information board: 21:34

• officiating: 27:2-5

• proof of ordination: 27:3.3

• receptions: 27:4

• Scriptural freedom: 27:3.1-2, 6.1

• support of uneven yoking: 8:24

• unbaptized publishers: 27:3, 6.1

• undocumented aliens: 27:6.1

• use of Kingdom Hall: 27:6

Witnessing difficulties: 23:21-23

Working Together Safely​—Standards for Theocratic Construction and Maintenance (DC-82): 21:28

Written agreement: 21:20

Yeartext: 21:38.2; 24:28