Convention Program — Joyful Workers (1977)
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
JOYFUL WORKERS"
district assembly program
CIVIC AUDITORIUM GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. July 7-10, 1977 1977 "JOYFUL WORKERS" DISTRICT ASSEMBLY
(CONVENTION AND PROGRAM REVIEW: WT 10-15-77 pages 611-616 Awake! 10-22-77 pages 24-28)
(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.")
Civic Auditorium Grand Rapids MI July 7-10,1977
Veterans Stadium Philadelphia, PA July 21-24, 1977
DAY 1
DAY'S Theme: Working What Is Good at Home
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 Youths Place in Christian Society
10:50 Family Discipline Brings Joy
A. Vaughn/H. Bruce, Jr.
11:15 ANNOUNCEMENTS
11:25 KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Share Joyfully with Jesus Christ in Jehovah's Work G. Kasten/E. Taylor (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
Ron Andrews/D. Grace
3:00 Courageously Coping With Family Opposition
John Colburn/N. Brown
3:30 Appreciating the Sacredness of Blood (See WT 6-15-78 pages 16-20)
John Colburn/Dennis Valentino
3:45 Jehovah's Witnesses and the Question of Blood G. F. Parkinson/G. Floyd (See WT 6-15-78 pages 21-26) Jehovah's Witnesses and the QUESTION OF BLOOD
4:15 Aiding Others to Respect Our Position S. Wayne Patchett/W. Murphy (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
Tom G. Booth/I. Thomas
5:25 Song No. 23 and Prayer
DAY 2
DAY'S THEME: Inciting to Love and Fine Works
MORNING
9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 8, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
Ron Russell/W. Confehr
9:40 Conducting Ourselves Honestly in All Things
John Heyboer/G. Baker
10:05 Cleansed and Zealous for Fine Works
M. Laughhunn/T.R. Miles
10:30 ANNOUNCEMENTS
10:35 Love in Action (See WT 9-15-78 pages 17-21)
T. LaFountain/A. Jackson
11:05 "Select Wise, Discreet and Experienced Men" (See WT 12-1-78 pages 16-25)
R. E. Hendricks/J. Neilson
11:40 Our Choice to Work with Jehovah (See WT 11-1-78 pages 12-21)
12:10 Song No. 61, to Baptism
J. Dykstra/R. Cartwright
AFTERNOON
2:15 Music
2:25 Song No. 62
2:30 Secretaries to Benefit the Flock of God Norm Mosher/B. Brown (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 3-4)
2:45 "They Will Be Taught By Jehovah" Ken Fields/J. Johnson (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 4-5)
3:10 Administering God's Law in the Congregation Joel Meulenberg/L. Walker (See "Our Kingdom Ministry" of September 1977 (U.S. edition), pages 5-6)
3:35 Song No.
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
DAY 3
DAY'S THEME:Exerting Ourselves in the Field
MORNING
9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 25, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
9:40 Let Your Light Shine Forth Everywhere
Walt Heard/W. Harvey
J. Cross/J. Hill
10:10 Conversing on the Bible from House to House
10:40 Finding Joy in Disciple-making
Paul Shank/A. DeMayo
E. Jim Buchbinder/H. Sturgis
11:10 ANNOUNCEMENTS
11:15 DRAMA: Are You Whole-souled in Service to God?
12:15 Song No. 88
Floyd Jackson/F. Thorpe, Jr.
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
G. Brown/R. Byrd Sr.
R. Ridenour/P. Hines
3:35 Auxiliary Pioneering--Can You Share?
4:05 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Robert Pomranky/M. Redmond
4:10 Pioneer Work Makes the Heart Joyful C. Gillard/L. Oetzel
5:25 Song No. 11 and Prayer
DAY 4
DAY'S THEME:Loyal Workers Inherit the Promises
MORNING
9:15 Music
9:25 Song No. 109, Prayer
9:30 Things We Learned Yesterday
D. Firzlaff/J. Beechler
9:40 Self-indulgent or Self-sacrificing--Which? (See WT 8-1-78 pages 16-26)
Eugene Alcorn/V. Weaver
10:10 Are You Independent or Loyal?
G. F. Parkinson/F. Livingston
10:40 ANNOUNCEMENTS
10:45 News of Loyal Ones from Other LandsJ. Moustakes
Craig Wetzel/W. Kammerer
11:15 Jehovah Remembers Your Works
J. Strachan/M. Harvey
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
E. C. ChittyW. W. Myers
3:05 Impressions of This "Joyful Workers" District Assembly T. DykemaJ. Anvoots
3:30 Forward with the "Greater Works"! Linley RockwellW. G. Condilis
4:10 Song No. 110 and Prayer