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Index

A

Accounts

  • audits: 3:3.20

  • expenses

  • 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

Anger: 12:36-37

Announcements

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

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

Audits: 3:3.20

B

Bankruptcy: 8:29

Baptism

  • communicable diseases: 11:16-17

  • materials provided by secretary: 11:1

  • meeting one year after

  • 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

Body of elders

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

C

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 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

  • 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

Conferencing systems: 20:24

Confession

Congregation Bible Study

  • approval of conductors and readers: 1:2.8

  • conducting: 20:19

Congregation file

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

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

D

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

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

“Do-not-calls”

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

E

Emergencies

Employment

Engagements: 27:4

Evidence establishing wrongdoing: 12:40-42

“Exemplary”: 2:4

Expenses

Extortion: 12:31-34

Eyewitnesses

F

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”

  • 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

  • meetings for field service

  • nursing homes: 23:18

  • prisons: 28:10-16

  • public witnessing: 23:4-16

  • reports and records: 22:12-17

  • 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

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

G

Gambling: 12:31-33

Gluttony: 12:20

Greed: 12:31-34

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

H

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

I

Identity Card (ic): 11:8.4

Idolatry: 12:39.7

“In good standing”: 2:4

Inactive

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

Interfaith: 12:39.2

Internet service

Interpretation

Irregular publishers: 7:2.9

J

Joining another religion: 18:3.2

Judicial committee

JW Broadcasting: 21:41

JW Library: 20:21

JW.ORG

JW Stream: 20:25-27

  • foreign-language field: 24:17

  • Memorial and special talk: 20:10

K

Kingdom Hall and Assembly Hall construction worldwide: 1:2.15

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

Kingdom Halls

Kingdom Ministry School: 8:13

L

Legal matters: 29

Letters of introduction: 22:5-8

Library: 21:39-40

Life and Ministry Meeting

Literature

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

Lying: 12:22-23

M

Maintenance and repair: 21:8-14; A

Manslaughter: 12:38

Marijuana: 12:15.4

Marking: 12:77-80

Marriage

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

Memorial: 20:6-12

Merging congregations: 21:23

Microphones, passing: 1:2.8

Moisture-related problems: 21:12

Moving

Murder: 12:38

N

Neutrality: 18:3.4

News media: 15:19

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

Nursing homes: 23:18

O

Obscene speech: 12:15.2, 30

Online storage services: 22:28

P

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

  • 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

Pregroups

Prisons: 28

Public talk

Public witnessing: 23:4-16

R

Rape: 12:5, 41; 16:2

Reappointment of elders and ministerial servants: 13:8

Recommendations

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

Recordings

Records

Reinstatements: 19

Refusal to provide for family: 12:35

Renovation: 21:22-24; A

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

Repentance

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

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

S-202 letter: 9:9

S-236 letter: 9:3

Safety

Scriptural freedom to remarry: 12:71-76

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

Sexual immorality (por·neiʹa)

Shepherd Addendum: Intro:2

Shepherding: 25

Sign language: 20:28-36

Signs

Slander: 12:24-28

Smoking: 12:15.4

Songs: 20:21-23

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

Special public talk

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

Symposiums: 20:4

T

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

U

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

V

Video: 20:21

Violence: 12:36-37

Visual aids: 20:20

Voyeurism: 14:3

W

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

Weddings: 27

Witnessing difficulties: 23:21-23

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

Written agreement: 21:20

Y

Yeartext: 21:38.2; 24:28