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The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant [16] and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, [9] with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. [17]
A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses.The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. [1]
Former headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, New York. Jehovah's Witnesses operate 87 branch offices worldwide, [24] under the oversight of headquarters representatives who visit each of their assigned branches every few years, auditing operations, counseling branch committee members, department heads, and missionaries, and reporting back to the Governing Body.
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Children also attend meetings and do not have separate arrangements such as Sunday School. [209] Gatherings are opened and closed with hymns called Kingdom songs and brief prayers. [210] A Kingdom Hall often has multiple congregations that share the building.
While Witnesses sometimes refer to field ministry, after-meeting cleanup, and other responsibilities as "privileges", the term "privileges of service" often implies a specific range of assignments assisting elders and ministerial servants with meeting demonstrations and other responsibilities. [6] Such limitations are usually temporary. [7]
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