Convention Program — Theocracy's Increase (1950)
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THEOCRACY'S INCREASE ASSEMBLY of Jehovah's witnesses
YANKEE STADIUM
NEW YORK CITY
JULY 30 TO
AUGUST 6
THEOCRACY'S
INCREASE
ASSEMBLY
of
Jehovah's
witnesses
YANKEE STADIUM
NEW YORK CITY
JULY 30 TO
AUGUST 6
1948 1949 1950
1950 "Theocracy's Increase" Assembly
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-1-1950 pages 361-365)
Yankee Stadium, New York City July 30-August 6,1950
DAY'S THEME:Gilead Graduation Day
MORNING
Music
(RELEASE: "Songs to Jehovah's Praise" (book))
9:25 Music
9:30 Song
10:00 Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please God
12:05 Song
AFTERNOON
79,247
1:20 Song
1:30 15th class of Gilead Graduation
The Way of Success
Nathan Knorr
Gilead Graduation Diploma Presentation to Students
EVENING
111,795
The Way of Success
Nathan Knorr
Gilead Graduation Diploma Presentation to Students
EVENING
111,795
8:00 Gilead Students Express Themselves
Nathan Knorr
DAY'S THEME: Jehovah's Undeserved Kindness Day MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music
Reports from :
Argentina South Africa Canada Mexico
T. J. Sullivan then spoke on Psalm 107:23-31, 4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
Blessed Are the Merciful
Laying Aside Every Weight
Lyman A Swingle
Lyle E Reusch
Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News
Hayden Covington
DAY'S THEME: Theocratic Devotion Day MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
9:30
Field Service
AFTERNOON
147,135
1:30 Song Prayer and
Firsthand reports on the expansion of The Theocracy in postwar Germany and in countries behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe
The Increase of His Government Nathan H Knorr
RELEASE: 32-page Watchtower magazine
EVENING
6:30 Music
6:35 Song and
The Service Meeting was built around the convention's theme, increase.
Then followed four practical demonstrations in overcoming objections at the door through refutation.
Evolution versus The New World Colin D. Quackenbush (RELEASE: Evolution versus The New World(booklet))
9:05 Song and Prayer DAY'S THEME: PREACH THE WORD
MORNING
9:00
AFTERNOON
1:30 Song Prayer and Reports From: the British Isles and from Cuba
3:30 Turning to the Peoples a Pure Language
Nathan
(RELEASE: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures
4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
7:00 Scholarly discussion of the ancient Greek language
Fred W
9:00 Song 53 and Prayer
DAY'S THEME: Missionary Day
MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
9:30 Baptism
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music
1:45 Song No. 51, Prayer Missionary Reports
4:35 Song
DAY'S THEME: Branch Day
MORNING
Reports from the Branch servants
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music
1:45 Song No. 109, Prayer
Reports from the Branch servants
Regret and Protest by American Convention Hosts over Religious Discrimination Against Visiting Witnesses of Jehovah
Knorr
4:35 Song
Nathan H
EVENING
173,079
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
Reports from the Branch servants Song and Prayer DAY'S THEME: Knowledge of God Day MORNING
9:10 Music and Song
9:15 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
AFTERNOON
1:40 Music
1:45 Song Prayer and
Saturday afternoon and evening conventioners had the opportunity of hearing how radio station WBBR, the printing plant and office, the Brooklyn Bethel, and the Bible School of Gilead are being used for the preaching work that is spreading knowledge of The Theocracy to the ends of the earth.
4:35 Song
EVENING
6:30 Music
6:35 Song
Taking In Life-giving Knowledge RELEASE: This Means Everlasting Life(book)
Nathan H Knorr
New Systems of Things
9:05 Song and Prayer
Fred W Franz DAY'S THEME: New World Living Day
MORNING
9:00 Music and Song
9:10 Comments on the Day's Text and Prayer
Pioneer experiences
R. L. Anderson
12:05 Song
AFTERNOON
123,707
2:15 Music
4:00 Can You Live Forever in Happiness on Earth? Nathan Knorr
NEWTO
Lorna Boom
Children presenting the Watchtower and Awake March 29,1950 Bangkok Thailand
Children presenting the Watchtower and Awake March 29, 1950 Bangkok Thailand
At Jehovah's Witnesses Convention two girls set their hair in curlers outside lavatory built by Witness Labor.