1. “Peace as Your Overseers”

2. The “stars” represent the anointed overseers and, by extension, all the overseers in the congregations.

3. Traveling Overseers—Gifts in Men

4. 282 Guidelines for School Overseers

5. Serving the congregations as special appointed ministers are 1,780 circuit overseers and 197 district overseers.

6. How can Christian overseers display this quality?

7. Appoints circuit overseers and Branch Committee members.

8. Overseers Taking the Lead —Congregation Book Study Conductors

9. 3 Traveling overseers are constantly on the move.

10. How have overseers been helped to become capable shepherds?

11. In the United States alone, 59,420 overseers attended.

12. 2. (a) Why have some circuit overseers expressed concern?

13. Service overseers may schedule additional meetings for field service.

14. Circuit overseers also provided further encouragement during their visits.

15. For what purpose do circuit overseers visit the congregations?

16. (3) the educational training provided for missionaries and overseers?

17. 16 Those who are appointed as circuit overseers by the Governing Body receive training and gain experience first by serving as substitute circuit overseers.

18. Conscientious overseers study diligently to keep abreast of the organization.

19. Their overseers are likened to angels (messengers) and to stars.

20. 15 min: “Overseers Taking the Lead —The Watchtower Study Conductor.”

21. Have you shown hospitality to traveling overseers and their wives?

22. What special opportunities do the visits of traveling overseers provide?

23. The committee is interested in the activities of the congregations, circuit and district overseers, missionaries, Branch Committees and the periodic visits of the zone overseers.

24. 11 The first letter of Peter contains sound advice for overseers.

25. Enrollment: The branch office invites traveling overseers and their wives.

26. Take for example our traveling overseers in a certain African country.

27. Not even overseers are immune to the temptation of materialistic pursuits.

28. Overseers have shepherding responsibilities, and they care for other congregation duties.

29. Presiding overseers, please help us to give good service to all subscribers.

30. What does Acts 20:28 say about the appointment of Christian overseers?

31. This resulted in new congregations being formed and overseers being appointed.

32. Rule by the overseers resulted in the loss of additional Wampanoag lands.

33. At times, I have substituted for traveling overseers, visiting and strengthening congregations.

34. Why do traveling overseers need to have a self-sacrificing spirit?

35. □ Why do traveling overseers need to have a self-sacrificing spirit?

36. How have traveling overseers and their wives been rewarded for their faithful service?

37. The Heb. abstract noun for “oversights” is translated by the concrete designation “overseers.”

38. During the years that followed, the work of traveling overseers underwent various modifications.

39. How can others work along with overseers in helping sick or aged ones?

40. Now the Christian congregation is given the symbolic stars, the faithful overseers.

41. 4:12-15) On their visits, traveling overseers today give similar advices.

42. Some have served as elders, ministerial servants, pioneers, Bethelites, and traveling overseers.

43. (1 Timothy 5:17) In what ways can we honor elders, or overseers?

44. Soon all the masters and overseers were gone and the Faceless Men fled.

45. For work to be done successfully, overseers, managers, and supervisors might be necessary.

46. In addition, funds are used to care for missionaries, traveling overseers, and special pioneers.

47. □ How do many wives of overseers show a fine spirit of self-sacrifice?

48. But, in addition to that, overseers of the flock have been given much added instruction.

49. Accommodations for traveling overseers are usually basic but always provided in a spirit of love.

50. Elders in every land honor traveling overseers, who are appointed by the Governing Body

51. The training of missionaries, traveling overseers, elders, and ministerial servants is also an ongoing process.

52. Young and old alike can benefit from association with traveling overseers and their wives

53. Visits by traveling overseers have also been a powerful stimulus to continue in the preaching work.

54. The theocratic arrangement of capable, honest, spiritually minded elder-overseers degenerated into a hierarchy of clergymen.

55. When traveling overseers of Jehovah’s Witnesses visited, I obtained permission to show their slide presentations.

56. He directs them by means of anointed overseers, whom he holds symbolically “in his right hand.”

57. ▪ In September, circuit overseers began giving the public talk entitled “Unite With God’s Happy People.”

58. Circuit overseers will need to adjust their meeting schedule for the week according to local circumstances.

59. These elders, or overseers, do not constitute a clergy class; they are not masters over others.

60. 12 Differences of viewpoint can become a source of irritation in the congregation —even among the overseers.

61. The village chief and his clerk were the first to become overseers of congregations there.

62. For example, additional traveling overseers were temporarily assigned to the Kobe area to provide encouragement.

63. This school has now been extended to offer instruction to all overseers and ministerial servants.

64. To help train these new publishers, the France branch appointed the first circuit overseers in 1948.

65. Soon we were accommodating zone servants (now known as circuit overseers) and inviting nearby pioneers for meals.

66. What really worried me was a list of names and addresses of overseers in the entire circuit.

67. In one African land, 55 percent of the traveling overseers have graduated from the Ministerial Training School.

68. (Titus 1:13) Even so, overseers must take pains never to speak unkindly to the congregation.

69. Why should we let the circuit and district overseers’ wives know that they are loved and appreciated?

70. These include mature overseers from the great crowd who have gained a wealth of ability and experience.

71. The secretary can use the box to gather the field service reports collected by book study overseers.

72. He had been invited there to attend the second class of a school for traveling overseers of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

73. 15 One of the qualifications for those appointed to serve as overseers involves being willing to yield.

74. As overseers, they supervise the instruction provided at meetings and take the lead in the preaching activity.

75. Group overseers are appointed in each group to give individuals personal encouragement and training for the ministry.

76. (Psalm 62:8) Then, do not hesitate to ask for help from loving overseers in the congregation.

77. (Acts 13:3) We too should support those who receive theocratic assignments, including men appointed as congregation overseers.

78. The Bible encourages Christian overseers to train “faithful men, who, in turn, will be adequately qualified to teach others.”

79. ▪ Starting in September, circuit overseers will give the public talk entitled “Turn Your Eyes Away From Worthless Things!”

80. The overseers didn't like working the pauper children, and having to beat them to keep them at their tasks.